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Kirkland & Ellis Opens Outpost in Houston
The Chicago-founded firm has announced the lateral hire of corporate law partner Andrew Calder of Simpson Thacher.
Kirkland & Ellis Opens Outpost in Houston
The Chicago-founded firm has announced the lateral hire of corporate law partner Andrew Calder of Simpson Thacher.
Ogletree Deakin’s Ron Chapman, Jr. Wins Two Client Choice Awards
© 2014 The Texas Lawbook. By Brooks Igo Staff Writer for The Texas Lawbook (April 28) – The International Law Office awarded Ogletree Deakins shareholder Ron Chapman, Jr. two Client
The Judge and the Advocate: Meet the Lynns
As a Dallas jury read its verdict, Mike Lynn pulled his iPhone from his pocket and sent one email: “We won. $319 million.”
A few blocks away, U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn was on the bench in the middle of her own trial when the message arrived. “I wanted to be there in court with Mike when he won such a huge victory for his client,” she says.
Barbara and Mike Lynn are Dallas’ undisputed legal power couple. She has shattered gender barriers her entire life and is the only lawyer to ever chair both the ABA’s Litigation and Judicial sections. Now a federal judge, Barbara Lynn has presided over some of the most controversial and important trials in North Texas during the past 15 years.
Mike Lynn is a pit bull trial lawyer who left the comforts of a large silk stocking law firm 20 years ago to start one of the most successful and respected litigation boutiques in Texas. His biggest court victory – the $319 million win for Energy Transfer Partners – is the largest judgment ever issued by a state court jury in Dallas.
N. Texas Opportunity Fund Sues Hammerman & Gainer
A Dallas private equity fund is taking officials of a Louisiana company to task over allegations that it secretly set up a “shell” company to funnel money out of the business when the fund owned a piece of that company.
N. Texas Opportunity Fund Sues Hammerman & Gainer
A Dallas private equity fund is taking officials of a Louisiana company to task over allegations that it secretly set up a “shell” company to funnel money out of the business when the fund owned a piece of that company.
Weil’s Courtney Marcus to Receive Texas Diversity Council Award
© 2014 The Texas Lawbook. By Brooks Igo Staff Writer for The Texas Lawbook (April 24) – The Texas Diversity Council has named Weil Dallas-based partner Courtney Marcus a 2014
DMN: Jury Awards $3 Million in Fracking Contamination Case
A Dallas jury has awarded a Wise County couple $3 million in their case against Plano-based Aruba Petroleum.
ETP Demands $915 Million from Enterprise
Energy Transfer Partners is asking a judge to award it $914.6 million for damages it suffered over an alleged joint venture with Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners that failed in 2011.