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What Will Uniform Trade Secrets Act Mean for Texas Lawyers?
Effective Sept. 1, a new law defines "trade secret" and the actions that constitute misappropriation. It provides for injunctive relief for misappropriation, and in some circumstances, allows "payment of a reasonable royalty" or "affirmative acts to protect a trade secret."
Judge Green-lights Investor Claims Against BP
Publication Date: 2013-02-07 Practice Area: Industry: Court: Judge: Attorneys: For plaintiff: For defendant: Case number:
Sullivan & Cromwell, Cooley, and Andrews Kurth were on the losing end of a ruling this week in a securities class action against BP over what it disclosed to shareholders about the risks of a disaster like the one that unfolded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Practice By Practice: 2010's Substantive Law Developments
Practitioners write about the year's developments in their practice areas, including banking and business, bankruptcy, criminal law, energy, family law, immigration, insurance, intellectual property, labor and employment, personal-injury law, real estate, securities and tax law. In all, the 22 writers reflect on substantive legal developments in 13 practice areas for 2010.
Antitrust Anxiety Means More Work For Texas Counsel
At Houston's Fulbright & Jaworski, Layne Kruse (pictured), co-chair of the firm's antitrust and competition practice group, has some advice for clients: Re-examine your antitrust compliance programs and make sure all corporate educational programs, manuals and instructions to employees don't encourage or condone price-fixing, bid-rigging or market allocation schemes.
Art Deals More Often Involve Art of Litigation
The art of making an art deal used to involve a handshake, but these days it increasingly involves litigation. With art pieces becoming increasingly expensive, deals crossing more borders and a growing number of people acquiring art, lawyers are seeing more lawsuits. Bryan Cave partner Scott Hodes is assembling a team of two dozen lawyers that will specialize in art-related matters. The lawyers will have expertise in areas such as taxes, estate planning, contracts, insurance and IP, he says.Plaintiffs would divide BP shareholder claims into 3 separate trials
Lawyers for shareholders suing BP PLC to recover losses tied to last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill have proposed a timetable by which their cases would go to trial separately, according to court documents.Lawyers for BP are fighting that schedule, saying it fails to take into account the company's pending motions to dismiss the litigation.Trending Stories
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