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Cox Smith Shareholders to Form Energy Firm

Pending Cox Smith Matthews merger with Dykema was a factor in timing of departure of oil, gas and energy trio who formed Santoyo Moore Wehmeyer.
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Texas Lawyer

Deepwater O&G Projects Attract New High Stakes Bidders

Oil giants Exxon Mobil and BP were outgunned at a recent lease sale for the Block 107 deepwater tract in Walker Ridge area.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Godwin Lewis' PPP Dip Reflects Successful Conclusion of Litigation

This year was very, very good, but work necessarily slowed down after the firm's largest client Halliburton succeeded in federal court in Gulf Coast oil spill MDL, and then settled with majority of the plaintiffs class, said Don Godwin.
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National Law Journal

Feds' Spend on Lawsuits Up

The federal government paid more than $3 billion last year to resolve lawsuits, almost twice as much as it did the year before, according to an analysis by The National Law Journal of hundreds of payment records.
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National Law Journal

Government Negligence: Five Cases

By | April 06, 2015
For every dry legal dispute over proper methods of cost accounting or overtime pay, there are the cases in the Judgment Fund where government workers — through negligence or carelessness — made errors with terrible consequences.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Gray Reed Hires Five Lateral Litigators

Gray, Reed & McGraw hired a five-lawyer group, led by Darin Brooks.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Smitherman Joining Firm With Powerful Energy Practice

Barry Smitherman, former chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission and the Public Utiliities Commission of Texas, will join Vinson & Elkins' Austin office on April 1.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Lessors Development Expectations During Downturn

Lessors who have expectations regarding drilling on their leases will likely become increasingly frustrated with the slow-down in operations.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Conoco Wins Reimbursement for $63M Settlement

The Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston recently ruled that Noble Energy owes a duty of defense and indemnity to ConocoPhillips with respect to a $63 million settlement related to an environmental claim for damage to an oil field in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

New Fracking Rules Passed Without Bigger Setbacks

Despite the push from some local advocacy groups to greatly enlarge setbacks between fracking operations and residences in the city of Mansfield, Texas, the city council recently voted unanimously to keep the current 600-foot setbacks.
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