The Association of Corporate Counsel’s DFW Chapter and The Texas Lawbook announced Monday the finalists for both the 2019 Pro Bono and Public Service Award and the M&A Deal of the Year Award.
“There’s room for everyone on the nice list.”
The Texas Lawbook is looking for fun and interesting pictures from your office holiday party. Here are Greenberg Traurig shareholders Ronald Green and Frank Bradley with Santa Claus. Please send your best shots to: brooks.igo@texaslawbook.net.
Texas Lawbook Turns Eight, Adding Full-time Pro Bono Writer
The Texas Lawbook celebrates its eighth anniversary by creating a charitable foundation and a full-time reporter position to write exclusively about pro bono and public service in Texas. Oh, we also have reached 13,500 paid subscribers, including 2,600 corporate in-house counsel.
Texas Lawbook Exclusive Event: New SEC Director David Peavler Takes Questions, Gives Insight
David Peavler has been the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s top federal cop in Texas overseeing corporations, financial institutions and investment firms for three months and one day. This Tuesday, Peavler and a panel experts are discussing the SEC’s challenges, new focuses and recent developments and trends in an exclusive CLE ethics program. In this article, Peavler and the panelists give a sneak, but substantive preview of their talking points.
Nominations Open for 2019 DFW Outstanding Corporate Counsel Awards
The Association of Corporate Counsel’s DFW Chapter and The Texas Lawbook are officially accepting nominations for the 2019 Outstanding Corporate Counsel Awards, which recognize the best of the best legal work being performed by corporate in-house counsel. There are 14 categories this year, including three categories that also recognize successful partnerships between general counsel and their outside law firms. The Lawbook has full details.
The Deals, The Law Firms, The Lawyers
Our expert team has examined every transaction recorded by the Corporate Deal Tracker – there were thousands of them handled by Texas lawyers in 2018 and 2019. This article details how The Lawbook plans to unveil the findings.
Bell Nunnally Gets First New Leader in 20 Years
Bell Nunnally has had the same managing partner for two decades. That changes Sept. 1 when trial partner Christopher Trowbridge takes the reins of the 63 lawyer corporate firm. But he knows there will be many challenges ahead.
Remember the 5 D’s of dodgeball: Dodge, duck, dip, dive and DONATE
Whatever comes to mind when you think “dodgeball,” you probably don’t imagine corporate America battling it out on the floor of the American Airlines Center in the name of philanthropy. Weil partner David Gail shares details about an annual fundraiser that does just that.
Texas Lawbook Achieves 13,000 Subscribers
Last month, The Texas Lawbook officially reached and surpassed more than 13,000 paid subscribers, including more than 2,500 corporate in-house counsel. Our partnerships with the Dallas Business Journal and the Houston Chronicle means The Lawbook reach expands to tens-of-thousands of business leaders in Texas and beyond. But we couldn’t do any of it without one person: Sally Selio.
Darwin Bruce Sees Gold in Small-to-Middle Market M&A
Darwin Bruce, former long-time GC for T.D. Jakes, is pioneering a new initiative designed to significantly improve M&A and CapM opportunities for small and middle market business community in Texas. The lower middle market is woefully underserved, even though those are the businesses driving the economy, but Bruce says he plans to fix that.