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Texas Lawyer

7 Key Steps to Ensure Compliance in Staff Reductions

Particularly at risk for reductions are thinly capitalized producers operating in the shale plays of Texas, as employers try to assess the damage of the downturn and plan for the future.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

5th Circuit Gives Chemical Board Subpoena Power in Deepwater Horizon Probe

The Fifth Circuit on March 12 rejected rehearing its decision rendered on Sept. 18, 2014, which upheld five administrative subpoenas that the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board issued against Transocean Deepwater Drilling Inc. following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Green Fracking Promoted Through Tax Credits in House Bills

Two Texas House bills were recently introduced that offer tax credits on a per-well basis for oil and gas drillers that use alternative fracking fluids instead of freshwater during fracking operations.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Law Practices See Surge in Business From Solar Energy Projects

The solar energy market is heating up. And it's not just for-profit companies trying to turn sunshine into electric power—and money.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Treasure Map Leads to High Court Victory

A colorful seismic 'treasure map' helped guide Joe Cohen's clients to a rich gas reserve and a recent victory before the Texas Supreme Court.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

7 Key Steps to Ensure Compliance in Staff Reductions

Particularly at risk for reductions are thinly capitalized producers operating in the shale plays of Texas, as employers try to assess the damage of the downturn and plan for the future.
5 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Docket Chat: Former Marshall Clerk to Argue for Pro-Confederate Group

The lawyer who will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Sons of Confederate Veterans on March 23 is R. James George Jr., a former law clerk to the late Justice Thurgood Marshall.
5 minute read

The Recorder

City of San Buenaventura v. United Water Conservation District

By | March 17, 2015
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

5th Circuit Gives Chemical Board Subpoena Power in Deepwater Horizon Probe

The Fifth Circuit on March 12 rejected rehearing its decision rendered on Sept. 18, 2014, which upheld five administrative subpoenas that the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board issued against Transocean Deepwater Drilling Inc. following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

In Rare Move, Judge Overrides Forum Selection Clause

In an unusual move, a federal judge in Philadelphia has set aside a forum selection clause and kept a potential class action in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
4 minute read

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