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After a yearlong business romance, the law firms from San Antonio and Detroit announced Monday they are combining to become Dykema Cox Smith, a 450-lawyer firm that has 140 attorneys in Texas. “This merger was purely driven by the firms and our people, not by consultants,” Cox Smith Managing Counsel Deborah Williamson said.
The Texas Lawbook has full details about how merger talks started and progressed. Hint: Dallas partner Bill Finklestein played a key role.
The number of new patent case filings is on pace to rise in the first quarter of 2015 in the Eastern District of Texas. But an increasingly popular avenue for dealing with patent disputes is siphoning legal work away from the busiest forum in the country for settling squabbles over the ownership of inventions. Welcome to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Nine years ago, Forbes put Dallas entrepreneur Sam Wyly net worth at $1.1 billion. His business savvy created tens of thousands of jobs and put billions of dollars into the pockets of investors. Charities benefited to the tune of $67 million.
Today, Wyly is in bankruptcy. The SEC wants $198 million. He’s paid lawyers more than $100 million. And the IRS wants whatever is left. The Texas Lawbook has an exclusive interview with Wyly and his legal team about the litigation, auctioning off the family’s assets and Sam Wyly’s future.
In a Q&A with The Texas Lawbook, Houston lawyer Steve Corso explains why he chose Haynes and Boone, how his experiences at the Justice Department and the SEC have shaped him as a lawyer and what kinds of cases the government is focusing on.
Lawyers from the three firms helped ETP and Sunoco negotiate an $816 dropdown transaction and LINN Energy secure a $1 billion equity capital commitment from Quantum Energy Partners.
Lawyers from the three firms helped ETP and Sunoco negotiate an $816 dropdown transaction and LINN Energy secure a $1 billion equity capital commitment from Quantum Energy Partners.
Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health and Tenet Healthcare Corporation have agreed to form a partnership that will provide health care for five North Texas hospitals.
Houston-based Crestwood Midstream Partners announced Monday that it closed a private offering of unsecured senior notes that raised $700 million.
Houston-based Crestwood Midstream Partners announced Monday that it closed a private offering of unsecured senior notes that raised $700 million.
Andrew Strong, the former CEO and GC at College Station-based Kalon Biotherapeutics, is returning to practice environmental and life sciences law at Pillsbury, a New York law firm that has about 20 lawyers in Houston. A 1994 graduate of the South Texas College of Law, Strong was at partner at Pillsbury from 2005 to 2009, where he represented several major energy companies, including Chevron, Conoco and Valero, in litigation matters.
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