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Dallas Influencer Sues Over Apparel Company’s Deepfake, Partially Nude Instagram Post - A Dallas influencer who has cultivated an image for her 400,000 followers of a body-positive, health-conscious, family-friendly mother of three alleges an intimate apparel company “disempowered and humiliated” her by posting an AI-generated deepfake image appearing to show her partially nude body on Instagram. Tranchin’s lawyer, Brett Rosenthal of Reese Marketos, told The Texas Lawbook that EBY had not only disclaimed responsibility for the post, but at one point also threatened his client with a breach of contract claim after she declined to provide additional content to the company.  June 11, 2026Michelle Casady
Dallas Jury Sides with Defense in Dispute Over Commercial Property Sale - Following a weeklong trial, the 12-member jury awarded no damages Thursday morning after deliberating for nearly four and a half hours. A group of 13 investors had sued a Houston lawyer claiming he breached his fiduciary duty when he sold a property that formerly housed an LA Fitness for $8.5 million instead of a higher value. June 11, 2026Alexa Shrake
Dallas Developer Faces Accusers in Sexual Assault Jury Trial - Jerry Jones’ neighbor, reality TV show actor and Dallas developer Bill Hutchinson, has been sued by three anonymous plaintiffs claiming he sexually assaulted them. The women also sued Virgin Hotel Dallas, of which he is a minority owner, alleging it was negligent and aware of his behavior toward young women but failed to act. Counsel gave opening statements Thursday morning. June 11, 2026Alexa Shrake
DOBS Gets $32M Win in California J&J Case - A Los Angeles jury hit Johnson & Johnson with a $32 million verdict in favor of the family of a woman who used the company’s baby powder for years and died of mesothelioma. Johnson & Johnson has vowed to "immediately appeal." June 10, 2026Michelle Casady
AZA, Vartabedian Join National Law Firms in Raising Associate Pay    - Two Texas law firms this week have joined a half-dozen national law firms in announcing associate compensation increases of $10,000 for new and more junior lawyers and $20,000 salary jumps for more senior associates.

The pay hikes will raise compensation for first-year associates to $235,000, fourth-year lawyers to $320,000, and the base salary for eighth-year associates — the year before being up for partnership — to $445,000. With annual bonuses, many corporate law firms will pay their most senior and successful associates nearly $600,000 annually. June 9, 2026Mark Curriden
Litigation Roundup: SCOTUS Reverses Fifth Circuit in AT&T Case - In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a Houston appellate court parses who owes a duty of care in a wrongful death lawsuit involving a crash allegedly caused by a driver who was engaging in phone sex, and investigators with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fort Worth regional office reach a deal to end claims a Dallas-based real estate investment company president was lying to investors.  June 8, 2026Michelle Casady

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From TV to Tokens: Ex-Nexstar GC Joins Dave & Buster’s as New CLO - Rachel Morgan is succeeding Rudy Rodriguez as the chief legal officer at the Coppell-based public company. Rodriguez is teaming up with former Dell legal executive Janet Bawcom starting July 1 to provide fractional GC services. (Photo credit: Patrick Kleineberg/Texas Lawbook) June 11, 2026Brooks Igo
The Full Gibson Dunn Team Behind $75B SpaceX IPO Revealed - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher confirmed in a news release on Thursday afternoon that the firm is the lead counsel to SpaceX on its initial public offering set to price Friday and revealed the lawyers involved across the entire transaction. (Photo credit: Sharon Ferranti/Texas Lawbook) June 11, 2026Jason Philyaw

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The SpaceX IPO and the New Frontier of Corporate Governance: A Test of Investor Autonomy - SpaceX's impending initial public offering — potentially the largest in history at a valuation exceeding $1.25 trillion — has generated extraordinary controversy among institutional investors, corporate governance scholars and securities regulators. What makes SpaceX different is not merely the scale of its offering or the celebrity of its founder, Elon Musk. Rather, the company is testing a proposition that cuts to the core of American securities law. June 10, 2026Carliss N. Chatman
What the Feds Took, Texas May Protect - Earlier this year, a financial executive opened an AI chatbot to think through his legal exposure before calling his lawyers, then watched a federal judge hand all 31 of those documents to prosecutors.

The lesson looked clear. A Texas court has now complicated that lesson. Same conduct, two courts, opposite results. For Texas litigators, the gap between the two is worth understanding. June 9, 2026Chris Schwegmann & Ben A. Barnes

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  • ‘The Golden Age for Corporate Law in Texas is Now’ (Updated) - Never in history have Texas corporate lawyers worked so many hours, charged such enormous rates and raked in more revenue and profits than they are right now. The Texas offices of more than three dozen law firms scored record-high revenues in 2025 — and many of them surpassed their old records by tens of millions of dollars, according to new Texas Lawbook 50 data.

    Citing increased demand for legal services and healthy hourly rate increases, 48 of the Lawbook 50 law firms generated more revenue and more profits in their Texas operations in 2025 than they did in 2024.     April 30, 2026Mark Curriden

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