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Mergers and acquisitions involving Texas companies continue to be upbeat, with third-quarter deal value up almost 70 percent over the second to $131.9 billion, according to Mergermarket data provided exclusively to The Texas Lawbook.
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and USPTO Director Andrei Iancu spoke at the SMU Dedman School of Law Friday during its Tsai Leadership Lecture series. The Texas Lawbook's Natalie Posgate had the opportunity to sit down with Director Iancu for a few minutes after the program. Check here to find out what he said.
The Fifth Circuit ruled late Thursday that Lexington Insurance Co. was not required to indemnify famed trial lawyer John O’Quinn, who died in 2009, and his law firm for the costs of settling a case that accused him of improperly charging his clients for millions and millions of dollars in expenses that had nothing to do with the litigation.
Texas’ largest electricity transmission and distribution company, Oncor Electric Delivery Co., announced Thursday that it was acquiring InfraREIT Inc. for $1.275 billion and four law firms in Texas helped make the deal go.
Dallas and Houston suddenly face a shortage of experienced, high-quality business attorneys to handle the growing legal needs of their clients. Sixteen corporate firm leaders tell The Texas Lawbook that the short supply of talent in Texas is their biggest challenge to growth and it is driving up the price of legal services.
For nine years Burlington Resources deducted post-production costs from royalties paid to Amber Harvest for development in the Eagle Ford. Then came the 2015 Chesapeake v. Hyder decision, and now Amber Harvest is asking SCOTX to make Burlington reimburse them. Janet Elliott details their arguments before the court.
A San Marcos manufacturing client of K&L Gates filed a legal malpractice suit Tuesday, alleging that the firm represented their lenders against them in a debt dispute. The suit identifies two former K&L Gates lawyers in the conflict, one of them now a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
Texas had a decent week for dealmaking last week, both in volume and value. But in the larger market there are signs that things might be slowing down.
The flood of national and regional law firms moving into Texas shows no sign of slowing. A dozen more out-of-state firms may be looking to open a new office in Dallas or Houston during the next six months, according to 36 legal industry insiders interviewed by The Texas Lawbook. We have the names and some denials.
A Houston jury has awarded a take-nothing defense verdict to three brothers who were accused by two of their other siblings of fraud, securities violations and breach of fiduciary duty of their family business. The case involved money – approximately $30 million – but defense lawyers say the dispute, like many family court battles, went deeper.
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