Randy Gordon

Randy Gordon

January 20, 2021 | Texas Lawyer

Law on the Books Versus Law in Action: Text in Context

Legal texts, like scripts, can be performed, interpreted, and applied in diverse manners, says Randy D. Gordon, a partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP.

By Randy Gordon

6 minute read

February 12, 2020 | Texas Lawyer

Is Big Always Bad? 2 Perspectives

Randy Gordon writes that we have entered a second Gilded Age and as such, we require a second iteration of trust busters. He argues that there are two schools of antitrust thought that have developed in the age of Google, Facebook and Amazon: the New Brandeis (also known as Hipster Antitrust) movement and proponents of the economics-influenced status quo.

By Randy Gordon

5 minute read

May 15, 2019 | Texas Lawyer

Mergers in the Age of Populism

Was Robert Bork right in decreeing that mergers almost always lead to lower prices? Or is this the wrong question to ask, as the New Brandeis School argues in positing that institutions can become so large that they distort not just markets, but the fabric of American life?

By Randy Gordon

5 minute read

August 08, 2017 | FC&S Insurance

Non-Opioid Treatment Alternatives

There was a time when opioids were used exclusively to help manage the pain of cancer, palliative care and end-of-life patients, not the litany of…

By and Alanna Hughes Randy Gordon Kevin M. Bingham Pedro Arboleda

11 minute read

April 12, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Antitrust Claim Against Uber Illuminates Perilous Intersection

Uber recently found itself driving a very narrow road, flanked on the one side by the Scylla of labor-and-employment claims and on the other by the Charybdis of antitrust liability. And the road is narrow because it's the defense to the first type of claim that sets the predicate for the second. To understand why this is, some background to Uber's nature and organization will be helpful.

By Randy Gordon

10 minute read