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A Dallas judge has booted Bickel & Brewer from a big dollar international civil lawsuit because the firm and its Chilean co-counsel hired a former executive from the opposing side who claims the law firms agreed to pay him $1 million over three years to provide insider privileged information about the case.
Lawyers for the hard-charging law firm say its lawyers acted within ethical guidelines and plan to immediately appeal state District Judge Carlos Cortez’s order.
A Dallas judge has booted Bickel & Brewer from a big dollar international civil lawsuit because the firm and its Chilean co-counsel hired a former executive from the opposing side who claims the law firms agreed to pay him $1 million over three years to provide insider privileged information about the case.
Lawyers for the hard-charging law firm say its lawyers acted within ethical guidelines and plan to immediately appeal state District Judge Carlos Cortez’s order.
Mark Melton balances a lot on his plate, but his passion of giving back to the community is never on the back burner.
Geoff Weisbart is a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll. Growing up in Amarillo, he would take on any odd job at the nearby Tradewind Airport just to get the chance to fly over the sprawling ranchlands of the Texas Panhandle. By age 16, he was a licensed pilot. Land, horses, cattle, planes defined “home.” Fast forward to the early 1990s and that intrinsic definition of home had not changed for Weisbart and his attorney wife, Diane Senterfitt, someone equally at home in the country. Yet their law practices were citified… and highly successful.
Houston firm adds a former journalist, a former geophysicist and a former LSU football player to focus on business litigation.
Houston firm adds a former journalist, a former geophysicist and a former LSU football player to focus on business litigation.
American Airlines Assistant GC John S.F. Gross and Haynes and Boone partner Greta E. Cowart could be the poster children for all that is good with the legal profession. They are definitely the reason people should consider contributing to the Equal Access to Justice campaign.
Mary Nichols didn’t invent the Texas workers’ compensation system, but she may be its most ardent and aggressive defender. The article examines the 17 years Nichols has been GC at Texas Mutual, her landmark courtroom victories, and her relationships with outside counsel.
Gov. Rick Perry has appointed his chief of staff and former general counsel to fill the seat left open when Dale Wainwright resigned in September. Boyd is a former litigation partner at Thompson & Knight and was state deputy attorney general over litigation between 2000 and 2003.
More than a dozen sitting Texas appellate and trial court judges applied for the state Supreme Court position. Initial reaction from Texas appellate lawyers has been positive.
There have been more than $1 trillion in global energy M&A during the past 32 months – nearly one-fourth of it involving Texas-based energy companies. New statistics, obtained exclusively by The Texas Lawbook, show that oil and gas transactions continue to flow at a record pace and that Texas lawyers are getting more than their fair share of the work.
“There’s a lot of money flowing into energy and Texas right now,” says Stephen Coats, a managing partner and general counsel at New York-based Riverstone Holdings, a private equity firm. This article goes inside the statistics to show which Texas firms are doing good and which are doing really good.
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