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‘People Are Definitely Going to Get Sick’: Trial Over Texas Prison Heat Awaits Ruling - More than 30 lawyers across six firms, including the Texas offices of O’Melveny & Myers and Winston & Strawn, have worked on a lawsuit challenging the lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons, contributing over 5,000 pro bono hours valued at more than $5 million. At the end of a nine-day trial this month, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said the case ranks among the most significant of the lawyers’ careers. April 22, 2026
Asked & Answered with Bracewell’s Steve Benesh: Legal Deserts, Star Trek and Gold - Second-generation lawyer and Bracewell partner Steve Benesh went to the University of Texas, following in the footsteps of his brother.
“For my 18-year-old mind, I needed no other reasons, other than having a brother there and Longhorn sports,” Benesh said.
Benesh recently sat down with The Texas Lawbook to discuss his time as state bar president and the issues he’s seeing in the legal practice. April 22, 2026
Gibson Dunn Advises SpaceX on Cursor Deal - SpaceX said in a social media post that it has an option to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion, "or pay $10 billion for our work together.” That work is aimed at creating “the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.”
Gibson Dunn advised SpaceX on the deal with a national team led by Robert Little in Dallas and George Sampas in New York. April 22, 2026
Gibson Dunn advised SpaceX on the deal with a national team led by Robert Little in Dallas and George Sampas in New York. April 22, 2026
History Rhymes as Tension Between Executive and Judicial Branches Climbs - An American president denounces the judiciary, accusing courts of usurping power and judges of being politically motivated. His supporters warn of judicial tyranny.
The political figures being described were President Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and Samuel Chase, an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
“Fooled you, didn’t I? You thought I was talking about another day,” Nathan Hecht told an audience at the University of Houston Law Center. April 22, 2026
Albright Expected to Announce Resignation from WDTX Bench - U.S. District Judge Alan Albright is expected to announce Wednesday his plans to resign from the Western District of Texas bench he has held for nearly eight years and to step down in August. April 21, 2026Upton Assets Slammed with $1.6B Verdict in Deadly Explosion Case - A Starr County jury unanimously awarded $1.6 billion to the families of two men who died in an explosion at a Pecos hazardous-chemicals plant in 2023. The 12-member jury answered the 16-question verdict form late Friday after the two-week trial in Judge Jose Luis Garza’s courtroom. April 20, 2026
Litigation Roundup: Texas Firms Win Appeal in Penile Implant Trade Secrets Case - In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Winston & Strawn is representing the NFL Players Association in a federal lawsuit in Houston over the handling of a grievance and AZA and Beck Redden prevail on appeal in a California trade secrets dispute over a penile implant. April 20, 2026
Centerpiece
The SoCal Five — Franchising Hotel California to Texas - Don Henley and the Eagles could very easily have been writing about Southern California corporate law firms checking into the Hotel California during their constant and seemingly endless, decades-long expansion efforts.
They are all checking into Texas — and with the money they are making here, they will never leave. April 21, 2026
The Texas Trio: Different Paths to Breakout Results - Three large corporate firms — all with deep Texas roots and Texas-sized offices. They are the second, third and fourth largest law firms operating in Texas by lawyer headcount. All three are in growth mode. All three reported record revenues and record profits in 2025.
Combined, Jackson Walker, Haynes Boone and Norton Rose Fulbright saw their 1,364 Texas lawyers generate a combined $1.53 billion in revenue last year — a 15 percent increase over 2024, according to new Texas Lawbook 50 data.
Leaders for the trio of firms say the first quarter of 2026 is off to another record start. April 18, 2026
Expert Voices
Jury Bias Against Big Business is a Big Problem - The anticorporate juror now comes from all directions. Lawyers representing any sizeable business, not just the Fortune 500, must plan to counter this pervasive prejudice.
Where did this surge of intolerance come from? And what is the answer for a trial lawyer? April 16, 2026
Where did this surge of intolerance come from? And what is the answer for a trial lawyer? April 16, 2026
Use It or Lose It — Could AI Hurt by Helping? - The advent of AI is being billed as an upgrade on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. The legal industry appears to be digesting AI tools more comfortably every day. We nevertheless urge caution. Any new technology can have unintended side effects. Smartphones, for instance, devour our attention. We all knew watching too much TV was bad for us, but smartphones are like TV screens on steroids. Like the radio transmitter worn by Harrison Bergeron’s father in Vonnegut’s 1961 short story, smartphones displace deep thought.
AI could be worse. April 14, 2026
AI could be worse. April 14, 2026
