Mary Alice Robbins

August 19, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Members of Fish & Richardson's litigation group in Dallas racked up a series of impressive wins for plaintiffs and defendants during the 15-month period beginning in January 2012. The Fish litigators started 2012 by securing a $158 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen.

By Mary Alice Robbins

4 minute read

April 24, 2006 | Law.com

The privatization of certain child welfare services in Texas, which will begin next year, creates a liability risk for the private providers that state lawmakers may find difficult to limit.

By Mary Alice Robbins

5 minute read

August 28, 2007 | National Law Journal

Refusing to pay $28,000 in attorney fees a decade ago has turned into a more than $250,000 headache for Houston attorney Robert S. Bennett. In a memorandum opinion, a three-justice panel of Houston's 1st Court of Appeals affirmed an award of tens of thousands of dollars in attorney fees that lawyer Kelly Coghlan says he had to run up trying to collect attorney fees Bennett owed him for antitrust litigation 10 years ago in the Eastern District of Texas.

By Mary Alice Robbins

10 minute read

May 29, 2002 | Law.com

The right to equal protection of the law isn't denied when a lawyer has dual motives for striking a juror -- including an unconstitutionally discriminatory motive -- if the strike was for a nondiscriminatory reason, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled. In a 5-4 decision, the CCA reversed a lower court's ruling that voided a murder conviction because one of the prosecutor's reasons for striking a juror was discriminatory.

By Mary Alice Robbins

5 minute read

March 27, 2006 | Law.com

From the Gulf Coast to West Texas, pharmaceutical company Wyeth scored two defense wins recently in fen-phen cases in the Lone Star State. In one of those victories, Wyeth stipulated to its liability and still walked away a winner.

By Mary Alice Robbins

10 minute read

May 01, 2006 | National Law Journal

TiVo Inc. faces the possibility of having to defend a multimillion-dollar verdict it won in a patent infringement suit against EchoStar Communications Corp. while defending the validity of its patent on digital video recording technology.

By Mary Alice Robbins

6 minute read

August 19, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Locke Lord represented parties in three of the four cases that the Texas Supreme Court decided on June 21, winning two of them for their clients. "We do handle cutting-edge issues," Dallas partner John McDonald, co-chairman of Locke Lord's litigation department, says of his firm's work.

By Mary Alice Robbins

4 minute read

June 15, 2001 | Law.com

As Texas Land Commissioner David Dewhurst touts his candidacy for lieutenant governor, an Austin jury could begin hearing allegations that he fired David Scott, a Texas General Land Office lawyer, after Scott pointed out to Dewhurst that companies with mineral leases on Texas land owed the state between $60 million and $100 million.

By Mary Alice Robbins

5 minute read

May 17, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

A proposed change in the disciplinary rules for lawyers could wipe out a Professional Ethics Committee opinion that has drawn objections from some administrative law attorneys. David Duggins (pictured), an administrative law attorney and shareholder in Clark, Thomas in Austin, says regulated industries need to be able to communicate with their regulators.

By Mary Alice Robbins

7 minute read

August 09, 2002 | Law.com

The Texas Legislature won't meet again until January, but lobbyists have been haunting the halls of the state Capitol since the last session ended in May 2001. Lobbying in Texas has turned into a year-round job. Hughes & Luce's Jack Erskine says lawmakers now meet in committee almost every month during the off-year, tracking issues likely to come into play or fleshing out bills to be filed even before the session starts.

By Mary Alice Robbins

11 minute read