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Texas Lawyer

The 2024 Texas 100: Ranked By Headcount

Lawyer head count grew by 2.1% overall in 2023 at the 100 firms with the most lawyers in Texas, with midsize Texas firms and out-of-state firms with…
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

The 2024 Texas 100: Ranked By Revenue Per Lawyer

A busy energy industry, boosted by work in energy transition, helped provide work for lawyers in Texas across transactional practices. That, along…
1 minute read

Corporate Counsel

'This Is Not Going Away': Smackdown in Novel Cybersecurity Case Unlikely to Send SEC Into Retreat

In tossing most of the case against software maker SolarWinds, Judge Paul Engelmayer "creates the notion that the SEC isn't just going to be able to do whatever it wants going forward and serve as an 'overzealous' regulator," said Scott Kannry, CEO of the cyber risk firm Axio.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

Federal Bankruptcy Judge's 'Vilifying' Novels Raise Questions Over Impartiality

Judge Stacey Jernigan claims the "bombastic" hedge fund managers in her books are pure fiction, but ethics experts argue they violate her responsibility to appear impartial.
7 minute read

Law.com

Could There Be Class Actions Over CrowdStrike's Global Tech Outage?

Law firms are investigating potential lawsuits to come out of CloudStrike's global tech outage, but there may be limits on who can recover damages.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

New AI Legal Ethics Rules Coming: Texas State Bar Drafting Recommendations on Artificial Intelligence

The 2023 state bar president, Cindy Tisdale, mandated the project last summer and the taskforce's interim report was submitted to the Committee on Disciplinary Rules and Referenda.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Live Nation's CEO Avoids Deposition in Multidistrict Litigation

Michael Rapino isn't being deposed just because he's CEO of Live Nation; (Defendants) don't want to bother with the inconvenience of giving a deposition and Rapino wants to be free to travel, Astroworld Festival plaintiffs allege.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

More Trouble for CooperSurgical? Product Liability Suits Proceed to Trial

In the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, CooperSurgical and Femcare denied the allegations, and argued that the claims are preempted by the Medical Device Amendments to the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act, U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations and federal laws under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Judge Tosses Most of Landmark SEC Suit Alleging SolarWinds and Its Security Chief Hid Cyber Vulnerabilities

But Judge Paul Engelmayer's ruling did not challenge the SEC's decision to include Chief Information Security Officer Tim Brown as a defendant—a decision that has rattled the cybersecurity industry.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Kirkland Client Dodges $60 Million Fraud Claim With Summary Judgment

Plaintiff's fraudulent inducement and breach of contract claims ignored the defendant's contract right to walk away from the deal by forfeiting its $3 million deposit, Kirkland & Ellis attorneys told the court.
3 minute read

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