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August 07, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

New Deals

Texas Pacific Group acquires Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. Fortis To Acquire Duke Energy's trading operations. Enterprise Products Partners acquisition Of Cerrito Gas Gathering Co�s assets. Panda Ethanol private placement and merger agreement with Cirracor Inc.
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December 01, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

VerdictSearch

Employee wasn't fired for complaining about co-workers. Flight attendant's termination violated ADA. Phone giants settle patent infringement suit. Driver injured in collision with SUV gets $375,000 settlement. Driver not liable for crash that killed ATV operator. Jury awards $72,905 to woman injured in elevator mishap. Electrician burned by scalding water nets $428,243.
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November 11, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Look for the GOP Label

In the Nov. 5 general election, Steven Wayne Smith -- a political outsider who turned off Republican financial backers by beating an appointee of Gov. Rick Perry's in the GOP primary last March -- easily defeated Democrat Margaret Mirabal for Place 4 on the high court. Smith's win proves that money and endorsements -- of which he had little -- are less important than the party label in Texas' statewide judicial races, several political analysts say.
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November 17, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Best on the Test: Texas Bar Exam Top Scorers Reveal Secrets to Their Success

For nearly everyone who takes the twice-yearly, two-and-a-half day, four-part Texas Bar Exam, the results are simple: pass or fail. But a handful of people get a bit more information than that because they earned the top three scores. Texas Lawyer has contacted a number of the ace bar-takers who earned the top score on the Texas bar exam.
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June 16, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Today Texas, Tomorrow the World

An analysis by Texas Lawyer, based on lawyer counts as of Jan. 1 at the 100 largest firms in the state, shows that 10 Texas-based firms now have 21 percent or more of their attorneys in offices outside the state. Dallas-based Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld &#151 with 14 offices and 1,023 lawyers &#151 leads the pack with 71 percent of its lawyers outside of Texas. Roughly 27 percent of Bracewell & Giuliani's 418 lawyers are in out-of-state offices, says Mark C. Evans (pictured), managing partner.
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