Don’t Pull a Toobin While You’re Zooming, and Other Memorable Zoom Failures
John G. Browning
If you’re a lawyer who wore a tank top and sunglasses to your Zoom hearing, you clearly mistook your hearing for an episode of “Jersey Shore.”
John G. Browning
If you’re a lawyer who wore a tank top and sunglasses to your Zoom hearing, you clearly mistook your hearing for an episode of “Jersey Shore.”
Quentin Brogdon
One day, Tesla no doubt will achieve its goal of producing true fully-autonomous vehicles. Until then, Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Capability will remain unsafe at any speed, says Quentin Brogdon, a partner in Crain Brogdon Rogers.
Randy D. Gordon
Seen as a swirl of activity, the performances taking place within a courtroom are much more complex than what is popularly thought of merely as the lawyers acting out roles, says Randy D. Gordon, the Office Managing Partner of the Dallas office of Duane Morris LLP.
David T. Norton
While the advent of Advanced Air Mobility is exciting, the area is so new that open legal issues abound, says David T. Norton, a partner and head of the aviation practice at Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton.
Kenneth G. Engerrand
It is time for the Fifth Circuit to harmonize its application of uberrimae fidei with the rest of the nation and retract its ruling that the doctrine is “entrenched no more,” says Kenneth G. Engerrand, President of Brown Sims, P.C. in its Houston office and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center.
Michael Maslanka
Here’s the choice lawyers for employees are presented with: Frame Fifth Circuit decisions as ideologically hostile or reframe those decisions as ones of tough love. In other words, either bemoan or adapt, says Michael P. Maslanka, an assistant professor of law at the University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law.
Sang Shin
President Biden has carved out potentially meaningful reforms to employment-based immigration laws, says Sang Shin, an immigration attorney in Houston with Jackson Walker LLP.
Maka Y. Hutson and Hans Christopher Rickhoff
The Biden administration should consider actions to balance ensuring that border communities can function while appropriately using already appropriated federal dollars to maintain a safe and secure U.S.-Mexico land border, say Maka Y. Hutson, counsel, and Hans Christopher Rickhoff, senior counsel, at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
Gene Besen and Shae Armstrong
The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program is one that attracts its fair share of attention, not all of it good, and too much of it from the SEC and DOJ, say Gene Besen and Shae Armstrong, partners at Bradley.
Kisshia Simmons
The risk of an audit for companies in certain industries is very high and if their I-9 records are found to be in noncompliance, they can experience a range of penalties, including fines and criminal prosecution, says Kisshia Simmons, a Senior Associate in the Houston office of Chamberlain Hrdlicka.
The firms with the most lawyers in Texas made 21% fewer partner promotions for 2021 than the year before, a result of higher standards, and perhaps a reaction to continuing uncertainty in economics due to COVID-19.
Even though the equity partner ranks at Haynes and Boone grew by 14.7% in 2020, profits per equity partner (PEP) improved by 6.8% for the year.
A $10 million Paycheck Protection Program loan allowed the Texas-based firm to avoid lawyer layoffs in 2020, but the economic downturn affected the energy industry, a key industry sector for Thompson & Knight.
Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta announced that Stefani Carter, former two-term Texas State House representative and commercial litigator, has joined the firm as a partner, according to a statement by the firm.
