Newsmakers: Week of Jan. 24, 2022
Texas lawyer John G. Browning has been named the 2021 recipient of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s top legal writing award, the Dr. Maurice Merrill Golden Quill Award.
Texas lawyer John G. Browning has been named the 2021 recipient of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s top legal writing award, the Dr. Maurice Merrill Golden Quill Award.
Texas lawyers who work in the energy sector report that 2021 was a very busy year for their practices in many areas, including capital markets, SPACs, IPOs, M&A and divestitures.
The Citi Hildebrandt 2022 Client Advisory says the intersection of technology and energy will support growth in the Texas market in 2022.
Katheryn Hayes Tucker
"Winning a big verdict is more unusual, especially for adult survivors. There’s still blame placed on the victim,” Michelle Simpson Tuegel of the Simpson Tuegel Law Firm said. “But suffering is suffering. Sexual trauma stays with the survivor for a lifetime.”
Eric Johnson and Ray Wuslich
"Perhaps the time has come for Texas to change the power outage rhyme by building new regional transmission tie lines."
Aaron R. Crane and Michael Morehead
At a minimum, the new law (Texas S.B. 13) may help soften the financial blow as large energy companies are making the inevitable, albeit expensive, transition to alternative energy sources.
Omar Samji, Gabriel Salinas, Alix Charles and Miranda Morton
Beyond tax credits, the energy industry is increasingly adopting carbon-management strategies amid pressures from stakeholders.
Michael R. Leslie, Granta Nakayama, Tracie Renfroe, and Oliver Peter Thoma
EPA’s Strategic Plan is a sweeping, aspirational policy statement that lays out EPA’s proposed plan for incorporating climate change adaptation and resilience concerns into every aspect of EPA’s activities.
Geoffrey Bracken and Megan E. Martinez
Cannon serves as a guidepost as to the limitations of contractual autonomy and the importance of not only the chosen state’s reasonable relationship to the parties and transaction, but also the public policy of the state whose laws would otherwise apply.
Geoffrey G. Hoover
All attorneys engaged in a personal injury practice should read one or the more of the detailed presentations about the MCS-90 endorsement.
Quentin Brogdon
The Texas Legislature enacted the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act in 1913 in response to the needs of workers who were being denied recoveries in…
Michael P. Maslanka
President Kennedy knew what all effective trial lawyers know: be direct, be candid, ask for what you want. And do so in vivid specifics, not gauzy generalities.
Meranda Vieyra
You don’t have to work in the legal profession for very long to realize how crucial referral relationships are to your practice. While many attorneys…
Randy D. Gordon
Trial itself involves lawyers introducing bits of evidence—something like hanging ornaments on a tree—that make their trial stories appear weightier and more attractive. (Or the reverse, when they’re challenging their oppositions’ evidence).
John G. Browning
At the heart of the case are allegations that the inmates were left alone in an attorney visitation room and forced to listen to the catchy children’s song “Baby Shark” playing on a loop for hours on end.
