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The Key Deals of 2025: Business-As-Usual, With a Mona Lisa Smile

The undisputed dealmaker of the year 2025 was artificial intelligence.

Its needs, whether for infrastructure, software, data, cooling, tubing for cooling, electrical parts, real estate or any other basic or specialized situation, seemed to play a role, directly or indirectly, in nearly every deal reported to The Texas Lawbook this year.

Allen Pusey and Jason Philyaw sifted through the more than 1,200 M&A transactions that have passed across our desks over the last 12 months to pick the most significant deals from last year.

January 4, 2026 Allen Pusey & Jason Philyaw

CDT Roundup: A Quiet End to a Busy Year

The week ending Jan. 3 — the day Larry David claims is the last day you can wish someone Happy New Year — had just two deals reported, with one of DFW’s favorite Tex-Mex chains acquiring one of DFW’s favorite Cajun spots through bankruptcy court and the announcement of an ATM offering by a Michigan energy company highlight this edition of the CDT Roundup.

January 4, 2026 Jason Philyaw

Top 10 Legal News for 2025

In 2025, the Lone Star State was once again at the forefront of some of the biggest legal stories of the year. Join Androvett Legal Media & Marketing as we take a look back at the Top 10 Texas Legal Stories that shaped the past year, including the immigration court crisis, fallout from the 2024 election, and threats to the judiciary.

January 2, 2026 Androvett

Premium Subscriber Q&A: Stephen Myers, Match Group

In this Q&A with The Texas Lawbook, Stephen Myers discusses the traits he seeks in outside counsel, what outside counsel need to know when working with him and more.

January 2, 2026 Mark Curriden

Stephen Myers Leads Match Group in String of High-Stakes Wins

Last December, Match Group’s Stephen Myers and his legal team convinced a federal judge to rule that a class action lawsuit accusing Match’s Tinder app of being intentionally addictive and seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages needed to be handled by arbitration rather than a jury trial. None of the plaintiffs, however, pursued the dispute in arbitration. Match promoted Myers to associate GC and he responded with a handful of extraordinary successes in 2025, including obtaining a highly favorable settlement in a deceptive advertising practices case brought by the Federal Trade Commission and convincing a federal judge in Delaware to grant Match’s summary judgment motion in a long-running patent infringement case.

The ACC’s DFW Chapter and The Texas Lawbook have named Myers a finalist for the 2025 DFW Corporate Counsel Award for Senior Counsel of the Year for a Large Legal Department.

January 2, 2026 Mark Curriden

Pro Bono Work Can be a Bulwark Against Burnout, Business Litigator Says in Return to Practice

There was a point in Jeffrey Price’s litigation career when he got a bad case of burnout. He left both his job and Dallas, ultimately turning to volunteer work with The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program, where he represented former military service members before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. After more than a year of volunteering, Price joined the National Veterans Legal Services Program as an appellate attorney. It was through pro bono work on behalf of veterans that Price found the sense of purpose he had sought. Now, Price is returning to business litigation, joining Stinson as of counsel with a renewed perspective on the profession and a continued commitment to veterans pro bono work. He also hopes to encourage fellow lawyers to seek out pro bono opportunities that genuinely resonate — something he believes might have helped prevent his own burnout had he done so earlier.

January 2, 2026 Krista Torralva

Asked & Answered with Reid Collins & Tsai’s William Reid: Books, Teaching and Trial

In this edition of Asked & Answered, Reid Collins & Tsai senior founding partner William Reid discusses his new book, Fighting Bullies: A Case for a Career in Plaintiffs’ Law.

In late November, Reid led a team in South Carolina that secured a $112.3 million jury verdict for their client. He is also part of the team representing the court-appointed litigation trustee in the GWG Holdings bankruptcy. Reid and the firm have also has represented Elon Musk’s X Corp. in litigation.

Reid recently sat down with The Texas Lawbook to discuss his career and more. (Photo by Dave Cross)

January 2, 2026 Alexa Shrake

P.S. — Critical Legal Aid Fundraisers End Tonight

Happy New Year’s Eve. No, it’s not Friday.

This P.S. Column comes to you early to draw your attention to some critical fundraising campaigns that end tonight.

December 31, 2025 Krista Torralva

Texas Lawbook Law Firm of the Year

There were scores of multibillion-dollar corporate mergers and some landmark commercial trial verdicts in 2025. The year was filled with big stories.

But hands down, the biggest story of the year was the Trump administration’s executive orders against large corporate law firms, including a handful that have offices in Texas.

December 30, 2025 Mark Curriden

Unsealed: Judge Mazzant’s ‘Coffee Cake for Jurors’ Recipe

Jury duty is no piece of cake. But at least it comes with one in the court of U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant III of the Eastern District of Texas.

An avid baker, Judge Mazzant likes to treat juries in his Sherman court to a homemade coffee cake. He shares with The Texas Lawbook his recipe, and his thoughts behind the kindly gesture.

December 30, 2025 Bruce Tomaso