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Womble Bond Names 'Fearless Leader' As Chair, CEO-Elect
Womble Bond Dickinson announced Wednesday that global finance partner Merrick Benn has been elected U.S. chair and CEO, for a three-year term effective Jan. 1.
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Reed Smith Launches Emerging Technologies Practice
Reed Smith LLP announced the launch of a practice group focused on helping clients with the legal complexities posed by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and fintech.
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Texas Rodeo GC Charged With Felony Solicitation Of A Minor
A Houston attorney and Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo general counsel has been charged with online solicitation of a minor, a second-degree felony.
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Hunton Taps Energy Regulatory Chair As Austin, Dallas Head
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP has selected its national energy regulatory practice chair to lead two of its Texas offices, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Women In GC Roles Are Closing In On The Gender Pay Gap
Though the gender pay gap persists, the difference in compensation between women and men at the general counsel level is narrowing — from 4.9% in 2023 to 4.3% in 2024 — according to a report out Wednesday.
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Stinson Brings On M&A Pro From Fox Rothschild In Dallas
Stinson LLP has strengthened its corporate finance practice division with the addition of a partner in Dallas who came aboard from Fox Rothschild LLP.
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5th Circ. Nixes Catholic Abuse Claimants' Ch. 11 Appeal
Sex abuse claimants removed from a Catholic archdiocese's bankruptcy unsecured creditors committee don't have grounds for an appeal because they couldn't show the removal was a sanction on them that cost the claimants anything, the Fifth Circuit said.
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Legal Insurers See 'All-Time High' In Price Tag Of Claims
Some of the nation's largest legal insurance companies are reporting an unprecedented rise in "claim severity," according to survey data released Tuesday, with 11 of 13 insurers reporting paying claims in excess of $100 million in the past two years.
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Katten Adds M&A Litigation Practice Chair From DLA Piper
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has added an experienced mergers and acquisitions partner from DLA Piper in Texas, the firm said Tuesday.
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Norton Rose Gains IP Trio From Polsinelli In Dallas And Denver
Norton Rose Fulbright announced Tuesday that it has bolstered its intellectual property group with three lawyers from the patents practice at Polsinelli PC.
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Jackson Walker Wants Out Of Texas Judge Romance Suit
Law firm Jackson Walker told a Texas federal court it wants out of a lawsuit accusing it of harming a tug boat company whose case was pending before a bankruptcy judge engaged in a romantic relationship with a firm attorney.
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Frost Brown Gains V&E Bankruptcy Ace In Dallas
Frost Brown Todd LLP has fortified its bankruptcy and restructuring practice with a partner in Dallas who came aboard after more than 16 years at Vinson & Elkins LLP.
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What's Behind 'Nuclear' Verdicts? Skeptical Juries, Attys Say
Jurors becoming more skeptical of corporations are handing down sky-high verdicts, and trial attorneys say it's forcing a shift in the strategies they employ as they aim to score — or prevent — so-called nuclear verdicts.
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Texas' Willis Law Group CEO Talks Northeast Expansion
Following its official acquisition of Pennsylvania-based Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris Ledva & Meyers, Texas firm Willis Law Group is looking to continue growing in the Northeast once the two firms are fully integrated. Willis Law Group founder and CEO Kirk D. Willis recently spoke with Law360 Pulse about the transition, the landscape for minority-owned law firms, and the firm's growth plans.
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Airline Mogul Says FBI Won't Give Docs In North Carolina Suit
Airline tycoon Farhad Azima has asked a Texas federal court to force the FBI's Houston office to comply with a subpoena for documents related to its criminal investigation of the businessman, writing that the bureau has stonewalled his "basic discovery rights" in connection with a federal lawsuit against a Dechert LLP-hired private investigator.
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Jackson Walker Seeks Sanctions Over Judge Romance Suit
Jackson Walker LLP asked a Texas federal court Monday to sanction lawyers and their "disgruntled millionaire" client for leveling racketeering allegations in a lawsuit over a former bankruptcy judge's romantic relationship with a former firm lawyer, saying the claims are "frivolous" and "conclusory."
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Suspect Wanted In Killing Of Lewis Brisbois Atty Arrested
The suspect named in the shooting death of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP attorney Jeffrey Limmer turned himself in on Friday, the Houston Police Department announced Monday.
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Akin Brings On Sidley Energy Pro In Houston
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Monday that it is continuing the expansion of its energy transactions practice in Houston with a partner who arrived from Sidley Austin LLP.
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Once A Refugee From Vietnam, Attorney To Lead Houston Bar
Shaped by his experiences fleeing war-torn Vietnam and living in an Indonesian refugee camp, Vinh Ho is approaching his new position as the Houston Bar Association's executive director with a desire to "pay forward" the help and kindness of others that allowed his family to thrive in Texas.
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Ogletree Opens Workplace Violence Prevention Group
Management-side labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC is launching a new practice group of more than two dozen attorneys focused on workplace violence and threat assessment and response, the firm recently announced.
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High Court Skips White Law Prof's Bias Suits Against HBCU
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won't review a white former law professor's unsuccessful suits alleging she was harassed out of her job for challenging race-and-gender-based wage inequities at a historically Black university, despite her argument that the Fifth Circuit flouted precedent when it axed her complaints.
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Justices Reject Incarcerated Man's Atty Abandonment Claim
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the case of a Texas man incarcerated on death row who says his court-appointed lawyer deprived him of a fair chance at challenging his conviction in a 2005 double homicide.
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Husch Blackwell Hires First-Ever CPO From Software Co.
Husch Blackwell announced the appointment of its inaugural chief people officer on Monday, welcoming an executive who held that same role at software development company ConnectWise.
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Law's Up And Coming Job Title? Coach.
A title that once belonged to the athletic field is now increasingly common in the legal industry, with law firms expanding the ways in which they use coaches and building out their in-house coaching departments.
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Atty's Remarks On Race And Gender Sink $12M Texas Verdict
The Supreme Court of Texas on Friday threw out a $12.45 million jury verdict awarded to a couple who were rear-ended on a highway, citing the plaintiffs' counsel's "inflammatory" and "unprovoked" accusation that the defendants wanted a lower award because one of the plaintiffs is a Black woman.
Expert Analysis
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What Social Media Process Service May Look Like In Texas
The Texas Supreme Court's recently proposed rule change allowing substituted service through social media and email could take effect in December, and practitioners will need to know how to establish that the defendant received notice through a technological method, says Marcus Eason at McGinnis Lochridge.
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Strategies For Associates Seeking Jobs Amid Hiring Slump
Law firms will be hiring conservatively well into 2021 and beyond, but associates eyeing a new firm or market can successfully make a move if they are pragmatic about their requirements, say Rebecca Glatzer and Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey.