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EDTX Jury Slaps Verizon with $190M Infringement Verdict - An Eastern District of Texas jury in Marshall swatted Verizon Wireless with a $190 million verdict for infringement of a patent owned by Aspen Networks, a California technology company. The case is one of three such cases alleging the unauthorized use of Aspen's system to connect cellular phone calls in-progress between cell and Wi-Fi systems. The other two cases involving AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA are still pending. June 19, 2026
Senate OKs 2 More Trump Judicial Picks - Two new federal judges with connections to The Valley will be taking the bench in Texas soon, after the Senate Judiciary Committee gave approval to President Donald Trump’s nominees for the roles in the Southern District of Texas. June 18, 2026
Asked & Answered with FBFK’s Solomon Wisenberg: Investigating a President and Returning Home - In this edition of Asked & Answered, FBFK’s Solomon Wisenberg talks about how he got involved in the Whitewater-Lewinsky investigation and what trends he is seeing in his white collar criminal defense practice. While the Texan has spent the majority of his career in Washington, D.C., he returned home to the Lone Star state a few years ago and joined FBFK in December. June 17, 2026Union Pacific Prevails on Appeal in Case Where Jury had Awarded $557.1M - An error in the jury charge means Union Pacific Railroad Company will be getting a new trial in a lawsuit brought by a woman who drunkenly fell asleep on the tracks in a seated position and sued the company for her injuries. June 16, 2026
SpaceX Exercises Cursor Option With $60B Stock Swap - SpaceX announced on June 16 in a social media post that it exercised an option to acquire Cursor in an all-stock transaction valued at $60 billion, with Gibson Dunn and Kirkland advising.
SpaceX plans to fold Cursor into its X67 Inc. unit. The deal was first announced in April, when SpaceX said it would “pay $10 billion for our work together” if it didn’t exercise the option. June 16, 2026
SpaceX plans to fold Cursor into its X67 Inc. unit. The deal was first announced in April, when SpaceX said it would “pay $10 billion for our work together” if it didn’t exercise the option. June 16, 2026
Olin, Huntsman Unite to Forge $12B Chemicals Giant - Olin Corp. and Huntsman Corp. announced June 16 that they have merged in an all-stock deal that creates a chemicals company with more than $12 billion in annual sales.
Kirkland, Cravath and Sidley advised on the transaction. June 16, 2026
Kirkland, Cravath and Sidley advised on the transaction. June 16, 2026
Pizza Hut Served Up to PE for $1.5B - Yum! Brands has agreed to sell Pizza Hut to Connecticut private equity firm LongRange Capital for about $1.5 billion, with an earn-out option of $75 million by 2030, while Pizza Hut in mainland China will be acquired by Yum China Holdings for about $1.2 billion.
Sidley, Weil and Mayer Brown are serving as outside legal advisors. June 16, 2026
Sidley, Weil and Mayer Brown are serving as outside legal advisors. June 16, 2026
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From Risk to Reckoning: How a Dallas Lawyer’s Long Fight Delivered Vindication - Dallas attorney Laura Benitez Geisler agreed to represent former police captain Terry Bevill after hearing his story. He had been fired, arrested and charged with a felony for signing an affidavit questioning whether a coworker could receive a fair trial in Wood County, putting him at odds with powerful rural officials.
Despite losing his job, health insurance and facing legal uncertainty for 16 months, Bevill said he would act the same way again because it was his duty to uphold the Constitution.
Moved by his conviction, Geisler felt a responsibility to take his case. June 19, 2026
Small East Texas Town Honors Police Officer It Once Fired and Prosecuted - QUITMAN — After a nine-year legal battle, the city of Quitman has acknowledged the hardships faced by Terry Bevill, a former police captain who was fired and later arrested for aggravated perjury after signing a 2017 affidavit stating he didn’t believe a coworker could receive a fair trial in Wood County. June 19, 2026
Expert Voices
From West, Texas, to Washington, DC: How a 2013 Explosion Still Shapes EPA’s Risk Management Program - The explosion not only devastated a Texas community, it initiated a reevaluation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk Management Program. As of 2026, the RMP is entering its fourth major rulemaking cycle since the explosion in West. June 17, 2026
The Nine Most Common Mediation Mistakes - Mediation is intended to resolve disputes, not to check a procedural box or make a perfunctory settlement attempt. Too often, avoidable missteps derail that objective. Here are common mediation mistakes that make resolution harder to achieve. June 15, 2026
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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, 2026
