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November 26, 2003 | Law.com

Enron Report Scrutinizes Attorneys' Roles

Did Enron Corp.'s in-house and outside counsel willfully ignore signs that all was not right in the company's executive suite or did they just fail to notice altogether? Those are among the possibilities raised in Enron examiner Neal Batson's final report, particularly a 247-page appendix devoted to the role played by Enron's lawyers in the sham financial transactions that ultimately led to the company's collapse.
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June 26, 2000 | Law.com

5th Circuit Upholds Right to Sue HMOs in State Court

Consumers who claim damages based on poor medical care provided through a health maintenance organization may sue their HMOs in state court, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. But the court also limited claims that are based on an HMO's cost-containment system.
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September 05, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

VerdictSearch

Lab claimed hospital it partnered with encroached on its turf. Railroad entitled to cleanup costs settles with chemical company for $1.9 million. Terminated project manager claimed he was owed severance, bonuses. Colostomy patient recovers $1.12M for sponge left in his body. Patient blamed impotence on balloon burst in urethra.
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October 15, 2001 | Law.com

Judge Sides With Hurwitz's MAXXAM in Effort to Resist FDIC's Collection Attempts

Houston businessman Charles E. Hurwitz may end up turning the tables on the FDIC in the agency's long-running effort to collect from him and his companies. Hurwitz and his lawyers have long contended the agency's litigation was designed to force Hurwitz's Pacific Lumber Co. to turn over acres of old-growth redwood trees in a "debt-for-nature" swap. Now Hurwitz has an administrative law judge on his side, and his sights set on collecting sanctions from the FDIC.
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March 29, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

Lessons to Learn From the Women Scorned

The news has been so sordid in recent months that the front page really should carry a parental warning label. From Tiger Woods' reported affairs and John Edwards' out-of-wedlock child to South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's "soul mate," there has been enough reported infidelity and human frailty to keep the tabloids busy for a lifetime.
5 minute read
March 24, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Law's Not Like the Sports World

The discrepancy between the growing success of women in sports and the almost glacial progress of women in law may offer some lessons.
5 minute read
February 01, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

partners

Large Texas firms made fewer new partners this year but more of them are women and more are minorities than in years past. Considering the uncertainty in the nation`s economy and the turmoil in Texas` bedrock energy industry in the wake of Enron Corp.`s bankruptcy, it`s probably not too surprising large Texas firms made fewer new partners as a whole in 2002 than in 2001. The decline isn`t large, about 9.8 percent, but it`s the second year in a row for the trend line to head down instead of up.
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April 28, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

The Texas 100

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February 02, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

New Deals

Fedex acquires Kinko's. Northern Star buys Power Generation Facilities. Enterprise Products Partners merge with Gulfterra Energy Partners.
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July 14, 2010 | National Law Journal

'Harry Potter' publisher sued in New York for alleged copyright infringement

A plagiarism fight involving two British authors of books about young wizards has crossed the pond.
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