Newsmakers: Week of May 30, 2022
Damon Rowe, the former executive director of the Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Fraud Enforcement, has joined Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch & Ungerman in Dallas.
Damon Rowe, the former executive director of the Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Fraud Enforcement, has joined Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch & Ungerman in Dallas.
Nine Texas firms are on the Am Law 200, and all but one improved their revenue in 2021, compared with 2020.
The firms with the most lawyers in Texas grew by 5.6% in 2021, with much of the growth coming from Texas offices of out-of-state firms, or midsize firms building larger teams.
Susan Myres
At the beginning of the collaborative process all parties must sign an agreement that they will not go to court. As a result, if the process does not work, the attorneys must withdraw, and the parties must select new attorneys.
Justin Butterfield
In November of 2021, however, the Biden Administration announced that it is revoking the waivers issued to Texas and South Carolina (as well as a third waiver issued to Michigan). Instead, HHS will require a case-by-case analysis for religious exemptions.
Elisa Reiter and Daniel Pollack
The allegations against attorney Taylor focused on her use and disclosure of the communications in the underlying custody modification—not on her playing a part in the interception of those communications.
Landon Hankins
If your client does not have written policies defining a set work week for their employees, you may need to work with them to determine the correct answers. Keep in mind that federal law requires each employer to establish a fixed, seven-day “work week” for each employee or set of employees for overtime calculation purposes.
Mike Muskat and Corey Devine
While there is no indication that the Texas legislature will seriously consider banning mandatory employment arbitration in Texas any time soon, the movement in other states to do so affects how multistate employers choose to proceed.
Angella H. Myers
At the outset employees working remotely may seem cost efficient. But failure to address the details of how to correctly implement remote work can result in unexpected business costs in days ahead.
Michael P. Maslanka
The consequences for an employee trying to perform his job can arguably be debilitating; thus, it must be left to a jury, not a judge, to decide whether the terms and conditions of his employment are so altered as to create a hostile work environment based on race.
Quentin Brogdon
In Texas, parents can be civilly liable for their children’s torts, but only under specific, limited circumstances.
Meranda Vieyra
While lead magnets can potentially work for any lawyer or law practice, they typically work better for those areas where the client has some time before they have to hire legal help.
Randy D. Gordon
Just as a moviegoer must act on a series of cues subliminally signaling that her brain must unconsciously run certain “procedural schemas” that will allow her to transform discourse into narrative, so must a juror match the unanchored discourse of trial to her storehouse of real-world experiences and beliefs.
John G. Browning
The Covington, Kentucky-based provider of laboratory testing services was sued by an employee who requested—days before his August 2019 birthday—that the office manager refrain from arranging any kind of celebration.
