GC Leanne Oliver’s Long and Winding Road to Law and Corporate America

Leanne Oliver could write the ultimate guide to girls about growing up. She lived in hippie communes, an old blue-green school bus, in the woods of North Idaho, in a 100-year-old log cabin and then back on the old school bus. That was just in elementary school. Today, Oliver is the GC of PepsiCo Foods North America and one of the most influential voices in the Texas corporate law community. She has a story to tell and she tells it to The Texas Lawbook.

August 17, 2020 Mark Curriden

Jared Sine’s So Far, So Good, Very Remarkable Year

While the rest of us have been dodging disaster, Jared Sine has been having a very, very good year. After settling with Bumble, the chief legal officer for Match helped guide the company through a reverse-split from Barry Diller’s IAC. Even in the best of times, it’s a complicated transaction that requires intense attention, a firm sense of direction and lots of luck. But add to that an economic collapse and a global pandemic and you ... well, Sine explains what it took to The Texas Lawbook.

July 23, 2020 Allen Pusey

Eco-Bat Hires Daniel Terrell as new GC

Fresh out of bankruptcy, Dallas-based Eco-Bat Technologies has hired former Stream Energy general counsel and Baker Botts special counsel Daniel Terrell as the company’s first chief legal officer.

July 20, 2020 Mark Curriden

Toyota’s Scott Young Receives Texas Access to Justice Award

The Texas Access to Justice Commission has presented its 2020 Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Award to Toyota Managing Counsel Scott Young. Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman said Young "has an unwavering commitment to pro bono work."

July 8, 2020 Mark Curriden

Five Texas GCs Ask Congress to Increase Legal Aid Funding

The chief legal officers at AT&T, Dell, Kimberly-Clark, LyondellBasell and Pioneer Natural Resources joined colleagues from across the U.S. in asking the U.S. Congress to significantly raise the amount of funding it provides to the Legal Services Corporation.

June 26, 2020 Mark Curriden

Northwest Texas Legal Aid Celebrates Women Advocacy Awards, Needs Funding

Texas Chief Justice Nathan Hecht says domestic abuse cases are “up quite a bit” during the past 15 weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are not enough lawyers doing pro bono to help abused women and children. The chief justice’s comments came during a webcast conducted by the Legal Aid of Northwest Texas, which celebrated the 2020 Women’s Advocacy Awards.

June 25, 2020 Mark Curriden

CenterPoint, ETP, Prosperity Bank – More 2020 Houston Corp. Counsel Award Winners

They are general counsel who engineered major mergers, acquisitions and restructurings and senior counsel who won bet-the-company litigation. They are corporate in-house counsel preaching diversity and pro bono activities in the legal profession. ACC’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook are honored to announce the final six recipients.

June 15, 2020 Mark Curriden

7-Eleven and Perkins Coie Win 2020 ACC Value Champions Awards

The Association of Corporate Counsel has announced that 7-Eleven and the law firm Perkins Coie have been named one of its annual 2020 Value Champions, a national honor that recognizes innovative technology and the use of creative operating systems to enhance efficiency and value in corporate legal departments.

June 15, 2020 Mark Curriden

Eight Words: ‘You Need to Stay Out of This Neighborhood’

Julia Simon's son was jogging a few blocks from the North Dallas home the family has lived in for 20 years, when a white woman saw him and screamed. The message was clear, but it took a while to fully sink in. The Mary Kay CLO explains to Natalie Posgate how the incident shook her family.

June 12, 2020 Natalie Posgate

‘STOP and Read this Story. This is my Black Son’s Life’

UPDATED: Sonic officials late Thursday apologized directly to the families of seven African-American teenagers for the discriminatory treatment they endured at one of the company's North Dallas drive-in restaurants. The parents included a Dallas judge and several prominent in-house lawyers. Natalie Posgate's update includes the full text of Sonic's public statement.

June 8, 2020 Natalie Posgate