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P.S. — Dallas Legal Clinics Announced for Feb; A Bankruptcy Becomes Charitable — UPDATED

In this week’s P.S., Natalie Posgate highlights a sizable donation one firm and one company gave to the Houston Food Bank, upcoming free legal clinics in Dallas and a group of new sponsors of the Lawbook Foundation.

January 27, 2023 Natalie Posgate

Lawmakers to Consider Ending Mandatory Judicial Retirement Age

Currently, judges and justices in Texas are required by the state’s constitution to retire at age 75 in most instances. A legislator from Angleton has authored a resolution that would give voters an opportunity to amend the constitution and do away with that requirement.

January 27, 2023 Michelle Casady

Matador Buys EnCap-backed Advance Energy for Initial $1.6B

Baker Botts counseled the company and Vinson & Elkins assisted the private equity firm on the deal, which at first blush makes sense given its valuation metrics and other factors, an analyst said.

January 24, 2023 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 17 Deals; 16 Firms; 146 Lawyers; $5.8B

The new year has arrived with an uptick in O&G deals, typified by this week’s sale by Chesapeake of Eagle Ford assets. This week’s CDT Roundup takes a look at that deal and discusses the near-term market for similar transactions with one of the lawyers who advised Chesapeake. And as always, there’s the CDT review of the week’s transactions and the lawyers who advised on them.

January 24, 2023 Claire Poole

Parties Nearing Settlement in $352M Injury Case

Allied Aviation and Ulysses Cruz filed a brief this week with the First Court of Appeals in Houston explaining they are close to finalizing a mediated settlement in the personal injury lawsuit and seeking an abatement of the appeal.

January 24, 2023 Michelle Casady

Litigation Roundup: Fluor Beats Class Action While Six Flags Sees Class Claims Revived

In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Fluor beats back class action lawsuit brought by retirement plan participants, a jury in Houston finds there was no infringement of a patent covering a tool used in oil and gas drilling and the Fifth Circuit revives a proposed class action against Six Flags.

January 23, 2023 Michelle Casady

Texas M&A in 2022: ‘Halting, Cautious…and Busy’

2023 was a year of contrasts: deals were up, but values were down; interest rates were up, but the energy sector was vibrant; dealmakers were cautious, but their lawyers were busy, busy, busy. The Corporate Deal Tracker has the year-end tally and analyses by our Texas experts from every corner of the market.

January 20, 2023 Allen Pusey

Trial Begins in $500M Wrongful Death Case Against Bobcat

Opening statements came Thursday morning in a trial that’s expected to last three weeks and seeks to hold Bobcat of Houston and its parent company responsible for the incident that killed Ricardo Garza in October 2017. Plaintiff’s lawyer Chrysta Castañeda told jurors the family’s patriarch had been “flayed alive” by a piece of forestry equipment.

January 19, 2023 Michelle Casady

UPDATED Chesapeake Sheds Eagle Ford Assets to WildFire for $1.425B

Haynes and Boone advised the seller while Locke Lord assisted the buyer.

January 19, 2023 Claire Poole

Pilots, Lawyers, Problem Solvers: A Profile of Texas Aviation Attorneys Mike Slack and Ladd Sanger

Texas trial lawyers Mike Slack and Ladd Sanger are among an elite tier of attorneys who are experts in aviation law and whose work has made commercial and private aviation safer for the masses. They recently sat down with The Texas Lawbook to discuss their career paths and what keeps them going.

January 18, 2023 Michelle Casady