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Corporate Counsel

Judge Dismisses Exxon Suit Against Investor, Defusing Showdown That Sparked Outrage

Federal Judge Mark Pittman ruled the case became moot after Arjuna Capital promised to withdraw the climate change shareholder proposal that had spurred the lawsuit and to never submit anything similar again.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Bumble Finds Successor to Legal Chief Who Moved On in Its Own Hive

Elizabeth Monteleone started at the online dating and networking app in 2018 as legal counsel. Six years later, she's chief legal officer.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Paul Hastings Adds Vinson & Elkins Litigation Partner in Dallas

At Paul Hastings' Dallas office, Vinson & Elkins partner Manuel Berrelez joins a large finance team that moved to Paul Hastings in Dallas and Houston in March.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Akin Elects Co-Chairs to Succeed Longtime Chair Kim Koopersmith

On April 1, 2025, London corporate partner Daniel Walsh and New York financial restructuring partner Abid Qureshi will put their firm leadership experience to use as the firm's new co-chairs.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Attorneys for Future Talc Claimants File Medical Monitoring Class Action Against J&J

Monday's lawsuit comes less than a month after many of the same plaintiffs' firms sued to stop Johnson & Johnson's potential third talc bankruptcy.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Court Gives No Relief to Energy Companies Slammed by Winter Storm Price Hikes

The court of appeals strayed from its lane by inquiring whether the orders could have used competitive rather than regulatory methods to any greater extent than it did, Chief Justice Nathan Hecht said.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Foley Expands in Texas With 2 Jackson Walker Litigators, Jones Walker Finance Lawyer

Jackson Walker litigators Trey McDonald of Houston and James McFall of Dallas joined Foley & Lardner because their clients had needs better met at a firm with a larger platform.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Employers Are Calling Their Lawyers as Overtime Rule Revisions Loom

"You need to stay up to the minute on developments," said Mark S. Goldstein, a labor and employment lawyer at Reed Smith. "We have to be able to be flexible and pivot quite quickly, with the patchwork of employment laws at the state and local level."
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

New Judges, New Courts: Appointees Named in Houston, San Antonio

With the appointments this week of two judges to each of five new business courts for the Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Houston and San Antonio judicial regions, Gov. Greg Abbott has fulfilled his duty under H.B. 19.
3 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Court Battle Over Musk's Compensation Is Far From Over, Even After Ratification Vote, Experts Say

The vote doesn't negate the Delaware Chancery Court's decision faulting the process by which Tesla's board originally approved the CEO's pay package.
3 minute read

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