The State of Business Law in Texas
The Texas Lawbook is conducting its annual survey of Texas law firms to gauge economic trends in the business law community. The deadline is March 15.
Texas Lawbook Hits 11K Subscribers, Launches Insider Newsletter
Buoyed by partnerships with the DFW and Houston chapters of the Association of Corporate Counsel, The Texas Lawbook now has more than 11,000 paid subscribers, including 2,470 corporate in-house counsel. To celebrate, we are launching The Texas Lawbook Insider, a free newsletter that provides insider details about the inner workings of The Lawbook team and offers behind-the-scenes descriptions on how specific stories came together. Here are the details.
ACC Houston & The Texas Lawbook 2019 Corporate Counsel Awards: One Day Left for Nominations
Law firms, corporate legal departments and others have only one day left to submit nominations for the 2019 Houston Corporate Counsel Awards.
There are 15 categories, including General Counsel of the Year, Senior Counsel of the Year, Business Litigation and Corporate Transaction of the Year. The awards event is set for Thursday, April 25, at the Four Seasons Hotel.
Remembering Darrell Jordan, Leader of the Legal Profession
Darrell Jordan, one of the all-time great Texas lawyers and counsel to scores of business leaders for five decades, died Wednesday. He was 80. A former basketball player at UT, Jordan argued a landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court and advocated zealously for legal aid for the poor and equal access to justice.
The Dallas Associate Behind ‘Women in Law On the Record’ Podcast
Even though there are hundreds of thousands of podcasts out there – more than 500,000 on Apple’s podcast platform alone – Greenberg Traurig associate Allison Stewart could not find a single one that focused on women in the law. So last year she took matters into her own hands. She chatted with The Lawbook's Natalie Posgate.
AT&T and Toyota Win Multiple 2018 DFW Outstanding Corporate Counsel Awards
The chief legal officers at Adeptus Health, EnLink Midstream Partners and Match.com won General Counsel of the Year awards. Senior counsel at Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, Capital One and NGP Energy also were honored for significant successes during 2018. The Texas Lawbook has exclusive details.
Updated: Toyota Legal One Builds Creative Partnerships, Promotes Diversity
Five years ago, Sandra Phillips Rogers started an effort to analyze and revamp how the auto giant’s corporate legal department selected and worked with outside counsel. The idea was a more collaborative relationship between Toyota’s in-house counsel and its outside counsel. Today that idea is more than a success: it’s a model for cooperation and diversity.
Updated: Jared Sine Leads Match’s ‘World Class’ Legal Department
Jared Sine has never swiped right on Tinder, but he is making all the right legal moves for Match.com. In his 30 months as GC, Sine has tripled the size of the Match legal department, unveiled a major data privacy effort and successfully litigated a patent infringement claim against a competitor. The Texas Lawbook tells what Sine then did after lunch.
Kelly Rentzel: Lawyer for $28B Bank by Day; 24/7 Advocate for Mental Health
A couple years ago, Kelly Rentzel faced a daunting question: whether to disclose a mental illness to the world. The GC of Texas Capital Bank had known days of darkness stemming from her struggle with bipolar disorder. But in the process she has discovered that the public revelation of that struggle has meant as much to others as it has to her.
Ziosk’s Shruti Krishnan Makes Connections, Gets Deals Done
When complex deals become contentious – with emails flying and obstacles accruing and the transaction in danger of falling apart – Shruti Krishnan is likely to do something unusual: she picks up the phone and talks with opposing counsel. And now, as a top lawyer at Table Top, she is known as one of the most effective and personable dealmakers around.