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Google's Yana Kravtsova

The tech behemoth's legal head of renewable energy and alternative investments talks strategy and going in-house.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Greenberg Traurig Nabs Locke Lord's Energy Litigation Chief

Two grown-up baby lawyers who now run the region for Greenberg Traurig are bringing one of their first bosses on board.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Exclusive: GC Says Expert Energy Counsel in Shorter Supply Outside Texas

The energy boom in places that lack Texas' experienced counsel leaves in-house legal departments looking for lawyers.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Greenberg Traurig Nabs Locke Lord's Energy Litigation Chief

Two grown-up baby lawyers who now run the region for Greenberg Traurig are bringing one of their first bosses on board.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

EPA's Clean Power Plan Represents Unwise Regulatory Overreach

However laudable its goal, agency lacks authority or expertise over power generation.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Learn From the Department of Labor's Audits in the Oil Patch

Companies in the oil patch can pay a day rate to employees who are exempt from overtime pay, so long as they do it right. Most often, the employee receives a salary and a day rate bonus on top of that.
6 minute read

Litigation Daily

BP Loses Another Fifth Circuit Case, With $18B at Stake

The bad news for BP just keeps coming from the Fifth Circuit. On Wednesday, the court held that BP and codefendant Anadarko can be liable for enormous statutory damages under the Clean Water Act as owners of the Macondo well that polluted the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Learn From the Department of Labor's Audits in the Oil Patch

Companies in the oil patch can pay a day rate to employees who are exempt from overtime pay, so long as they do it right. Most often, the employee receives a salary and a day rate bonus on top of that.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Court Says Adverse Possession of Gas Rights Requires Drilling

A Lycoming County trial judge has ruled that the only way a party can acquire a property's oil and gas rights by adverse possession is by showing it has engaged in actual drilling and production on the land.
5 minute read

Law.com

Emission Rule Will Spark Legal Challenges, Lawyers Say

The Environmental Protection Agency's newly proposed carbon-emissions rule will spark legal challenges that could shape its authority to regulate the energy industry under the Clean Air Act, environmental law experts said.
3 minute read

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