Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Some associates may sit around "like a potted plant," but not AZA associates Neal Sarkar, Jason McManis and Jordan Warshauer, according to firm founding partner John Zavitsanos. The three young lawyers comprise an associate-exclusive trial team that takes on a Norwegian oil giant in court today. Natalie Posgate has the details.
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Eskridge to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas with a 61-31 vote.
In a unanimous verdict, the jury ordered the principal of a large Texas-owned car dealership to pay Ford's financial services arm $53.7 million. The case is part of one of the nation's largest auto-dealer frauds.
U.S. District Chief Judge Barbara Lynn and Texas District Judge Tonya Parker are the two best civil court judges in Dallas, according to a new poll of lawyers who practice before them. The survey gave three other judges failing grades. The Texas Lawbook has details.
The Houston-based company defeated a derivative lawsuit tied to its 2018 merger with Enbridge. Natalie Posgate details the case and highlights the Skadden team who defended Spectra.
Texas lawyers at Norton Rose Fulbright and D.C. attorneys at Mayer Brown aided two oil and gas pipeline manufacturing companies to victory in a false advertising and unfair competition case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Yetter Coleman partner Collin Cox has about 200 bottles of nail polish sitting in his office. He recently won a $2.7 million jury verdict for his client in a four-year legal battle related to all of those bottles and has learned the nuances of at-home polish kits along the way. Natalie Posgate has the story.
A federal judge in Ohio has awarded Chesapeake Exploration a summary judgment win in a rare class-action-certified dispute over oil and gas royalties in Ohio’s Utica Shale.
A ballroom full of friends, family, colleagues and public officials gathered in the Texas Hill Country last week to honor E. Leon Carter, the Dallas Bar Association's 2019 Trial Lawyer of the Year. Natalie Posgate was there and tells his story, from an East Texas upbringing to winning high-stakes jury verdicts.
Only a fraction of Dallas County residents report to jury duty, but a group of judges at the Dallas Bar Association's Bench Bar Conference said there are still things lawyers can do to mitigate this outcome. Natalie Posgate was there and highlights their pointers.
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