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Final Enron Report Criticizes V&E and Andrews & Kurth
Nearly two years after Enron Corp. filed a Chapter 11 in the wake of a massive drop in its stock price, a bankruptcy examiner's fourth and final report concludes that outside lawyers at Vinson & Elkins and Andrews & Kurth may have been negligent or may have aided and abetted Enron officers in breaching their fiduciary duties to the battered company.Proposal in the Works to Modernize Foreign Legal Consultant Rule
Proposed revisions to the Texas foreign legal consultant (FLC) rule pending at the state Supreme Court could result in more foreign lawyers registering to work here -- a move that proponents of the changes say would make the state more attractive as an international law center.Questioning the Candidates For AG, High Courts
Although Republicans have won every statewide race in Texas since 1996, each of the GOP incumbents in the races for attorney general and the state's two highest courts face challengers in the Nov. 2 general election. Senior reporters Mary Alice Robbins and John Council pose one question to those running for Texas attorney general and for seats on the Texas Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals. All candidates received at least two telephone calls each requesting interviews.Atteberry v. Memorial-Hermann Healthcare Systems
"[T]he Administrative Committee's interpretation of the meaning of subrogation is legally correct under both an ordinary meaning analysis and the three-part test this Court employs to determine the legal correctness of an ERISA plan administrative committee's determination."
Small Firm Does Big Business With Small Towns
There's a new firm in town that focuses on just that -- towns. The firm that opened last month in Austin focuses almost exclusively on municipal law. That's not surprising considering that the three partners in Bovey, Akers & Bojorquez formerly were attorneys on the Texas Municipal League staff.Discovery on Discovery Demands Cost-Shifting
Courts should order more cost-shifting in discovery, write attorneys David J. Kessler and Tarifa B. Laddon. In particular, in the rare cases where courts allow discovery on discovery, it should be presumed that the requester pays for the responding party's costs to produce this information.1,800 pro bono hours later ...
Much attention has been paid to the National September 11 Memorial near the site of the World Trade Center, which will be dedicated on Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. But one day earlier, Vice President Joe Biden and other dignitaries will gather in a field near Shanksville, Pa., to dedicate a memorial to the 40 passengers and crew who died on the hijacked United Flight 93.Trending Stories
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