Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Tom Melsheimer, who represented DaVita Inc.’s former CEO at the trial in Denver, said his client’s conduct may have been ‘obnoxious,’ but it wasn’t a crime. The jury agreed.
The Dallas law firm represented GT Resources of Denver, which won a $41 million verdict this week in a dispute over royalties on 2.3 million acres in Costa Rica.
In a groundbreaking criminal case, the former owner of a staffing agency that provided physical therapists to home-healthcare companies is convicted of obstructing an FTC investigation – but acquitted of conspiring with competitors to fix wages.
Houston’s 14th Court of Appeals has reversed a $7 million arbitration award in an attorney-fees dispute because the arbitrator failed to disclose he had been an expert witness in litigation involving the party who selected a list of arbitrators. The court found the nondisclosure constituted “evident partiality” under Texas law.
Raymond Kane, Gordon Russell, Joe Coleman and Mike Logan started KRCL in 1992 to flee financial bad habits of their old firm. Thirty years later, the firm they built is entrenched in the Texas middle market of corporate law firms, ranking 46th statewide in revenues in the upcoming 2021 Texas Lawbook 50. But the four partners discovered much more than success. They and their firm used fiscal restraint and commitment to long-term client service to find peace and friendship. At the twilight of their careers, they still love the practice of law and each other.
A jury trial in Dallas County concluded Wednesday with a take-nothing verdict in favor of a Sunoco affiliate.
A Seattle company represented by Johnny Ward of Ward, Smith & Hill prevails in a suit claiming patent infringement by a Japanese big pharma firm that reaped hundreds of millions of dollars from sales of an innovative breast-cancer treatment.
Sarah McLean has been busy, to say the least. The Shearman & Sterling partner has advised on at least four energy transactions so far this year. Find out about what McLean thinks about the current climate for private equity and see who is leading the week's deals on the Corporate Deal Tracker.
Scheffler's mom, a former Thompson & Knight COO, and father-in-law, an attorney at QSLWM, were there to celebrate the big Masters win.
The Texas A&M University School of Law intends to become one of America’s greatest law schools. That’s not just A&M Chancellor John Sharp’s lofty goal or an empty objective for the law school dean. But in the so-important U.S. News rankings the school has been on a meteoric rise since A&M bought it almost 10 years ago. “The top 10 is where we ought to be,” Sharp says.
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