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Frost Bank’s C.E. Rhodes Has a ‘Servant Leader’s Heart’ - During his five years as GC at Frost Bank, C.E. Rhodes has achieved extraordinary successes. He is the recipient of the 2026 San Antonio Corporate Counsel Award for General Counsel of the Year for a Large Legal Department (21 lawyers or more). October 13, 2026Litigation Roundup: Pioneer Sees Uri-Related ‘Force Majeure’ Win Affirmed - In this edition of Litigation Roundup, the SEC’s Fort Worth regional office closes out a case involving an alleged $91 million Ponzi scheme, a Dallas jury sides with Jani-King in a franchisee dispute, ExxonMobil investors are granted class certification in a securities suit and a Fifth Circuit panel affirms Pioneer Natural Resources’ force majeure win in a Winter Storm Uri dispute. October 12, 2026
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Business Court’s September 2026 Decisions: Who Gets In, and Who Gets Out Early - Four of the Texas Business Court’s September opinions asked a threshold question: Can the court hear this case at all? The answers show a court leaning on its own growing body of precedent and a strictly textual reading of its jurisdiction statute. September also brought a Rule 91a fight over an expelled LLC member and a venture capitalist’s claim to a share of a multibillion-dollar sale that ran into his own release. October 12, 2026
Yes, Virginia, You Can Review an Arbitration Award: Is Arbitration an Option for Your Case? - For Texas litigators and corporate counsel, overcoming hesitation toward mandatory arbitration requires leveraging contractual design — either by expanding judicial review under the Texas Arbitration Act or using private appellate panels to eliminate unreviewable legal error. October 12, 2026
