Sidley Austin has added Houston-based partner Steven Tredennick to its energy, transportation and infrastructure practice.
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Buc-ee’s v. Everybody: A Look at the Convenience Store Giant’s Trademark Litigation History
What do a monkey, two chickens, a duck, an alligator and a dog have in common with a beaver? Quite a bit if you ask Buc-ee’s, the popular convenience store and gas station that has earned a reputation for aggressively defending its trademarks in federal court.
CDT Roundup: 14 Deals, 9 Firms, 179 Lawyers, $7.2B
On Feb. 5, Houston-based Mattress Firm was finally sold to Tempur Sealy, the largest mattress manufacturer on the globe. It only took 639 days. Blocked by the Federal Trade Commission, the deal had been unblocked on Jan. 31 by a Houston federal judge. Shaking off some provocative language found in Tempur Sealy company emails, Judge Charles Eskridge decided that the FTC not only misunderstood the mattress market, but effectively ignored the very class of consumers he expected them to protect. The CDT Roundup looks at the end of the long-running transaction, as well as the Texas-related transactions reported last week.
Ousted German Oil Executive Wins Case Against Former Dallas-Area Employers
On its third day of deliberations, a Dallas County jury awarded Bernard Tubeileh about $7.7 million in damages and rejected claims that he was fired because he’d stole millions from his employers.
Q&A with Trial Lawyer Jessica Dean
Dean Omar Branham Shirley was in back-to-back trials last year across the country against Johnson & Johnson over allegations the pharmaceutical giant’s talc-based baby powder contained cancer-causing asbestos. During an October interview with The Texas Lawbook in her Dallas home, name partner Jessica Dean was in between trips to Boston and Pittsburgh to try cases. “I believe, in a lot of the cases we work on, we allow someone who’s lost their life to bad conduct to be remembered in all sorts of fun ways: in the minds of jurors, in the minds of judges,” she said. “A case can live for years.”
TPG’s Climate Investing Platform Acquires Altus Power for $2.2B
Altus Power, a commercial-scale provider of clean electric power in Stamford, Connecticut, announced Thursday that it was acquired by TPG’s climate investing platform, TPG Rise Climate, for $2.2 billion. Lawyers from Latham & Watkins and Kirkland & Ellis are advising on the deal.
The Truth About the TCPA
While the law is by far the most significant safeguard of free speech rights for Texas citizens — with protections that must be jealously guarded — that fact often gets lost (or blocked) from the public discourse as powerful interests call for “reforms” that would gut the TCPA.
O’Melveny & Myers and First Liberty Institute File Lawsuit Over Denied Church Permit, Alleging Religious Liberty Violations
O’Melveny & Myers lawyers have joined Plano-based First Liberty Institute on a federal lawsuit accusing the city of Santa Ana, California, of violating a Chinese- and Taiwanese-American Christian church’s religious liberty rights. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Central District of California, accuses the city of violating the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, as well as the First Amendment. O’Melveny is working on the case pro bono.
Former U.S. Attorney Leigha Simonton Joining Dykema in Dallas
As a partner in the firm, she said, she will work to expand its white-collar and government compliance practice as well as doing appellate work.
Baker Botts Adds Veteran Austin-Based Energy Partner
Baker Botts announced that Ann Coffin, an Austin-based energy lawyer, has joined as a partner in its global projects practice. Coffin joins Baker Botts after most recently spending over 15 years as a founding partner and shareholder at Austin’s Coffin Renner.