…one-fourth of the 26 cases brought by the Justice Department under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Over the past decade, Houston federal court has become one of the busiest in…
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Pinkston Program Shows Students Many Sides of the Law
…pipeline leading to the legal profession.” Pinkston’s enrollment is 73 percent Hispanic and 26 percent African-American. More than 70 percent of the school’s students are considered “at-risk,” a term used…
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 17 Firms, 91 Lawyers, 15 Transactions, $2.38B
Deal activity slowed down the week of Oct. 31 through Nov. 6, with only $2.38 billion worth of reported deals across 15 transactions versus $4.7 billion across 17 the previous…
Non-Lawyers Grow More Powerful in Texas Law Firms
…for their knowledge management expertise. Kate Cain is director of market intelligence at Chicago’s Sidley Austin, which has more than 100 lawyers in Dallas and Houston; Louise Tsang is manager…
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 17 Firms, 94 Lawyers, 13 Transactions, $4.7B
…more assets to its master limited partnership, Valero Energy Partners, on Oct. 26 for $508 million. Texas lawyers from three different firms benefited from the work. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer…
Ex-Executive Sues Omni for Being a ‘Boys Club’
…(in green) with her legal team and women’s rights advocates at the Oct. 26, 2017 press conference. At a press conference Thursday in front of the Dallas federal courthouse, where…
Fire and Water: How the Legal Community Aided Houston Legal Aid During Hurricane Harvey
© 2017 The Texas Lawbook. By Janet Elliott (AUSTIN) – (Oct. 26) – As floods created by Hurricane Harvey enveloped the Gulf Coast in August, Lone Star Legal Aid was…
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Roundup: Eight Transactions, 19 Texas Lawyers, $3.1B in Transactions
…V&E steer RedBird’s, Sallyport’s $130M commitment to Tally Energy A new oilfield services company, Tally Energy Services, announced Sept. 26 that it had formed with $130 million in commitments from…
New Texas Pro-Insurance Law may Punish Hurricane Harvey Victims
…evidence that the insurance officials acted in bad faith. Gov. Greg Abbott signed the legislation into law on May 26. There is a small sliver of hope for the victims…
Reata Pharmaceuticals Taps V&E for Public Offering
…of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $31 per share. Mike Wortley Reata, which is based in Irving, priced the offering on July 26…