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The Legal Intelligencer

Babst Calland Opens in Texas, Merging With Oil and Gas Firm

The Pittsburgh-based firm brought on four lawyers from Chambers Law Firm in The Woodlands, near Houston.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Houston Lawyers Clinch $11.2 Million Verdict for Oil Field Company

“The clients are really blown away,” said Tanya Dugas Dawson, partner in Raley & Bowick in Houston who represented Oilfield Specialties in a suit seeking royalties from Warrior Energy Services Corp. “Both of these guys are in their 70s. They both had worked for this company for 20 years.”
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Carl Icahn Threatens Board Fight in Challenging Occidental's Acquisition of Competitor

The lawsuit, filed in Delaware Chancery Court, came just weeks after Houston-based Occidental outbid Chevron Corp. for the right to buy Anadarko for $57 billion in a merger of two Texas oil-and-gas exploration giants.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: Sullivan & Cromwell's Giuffra Seals the Deal on Appeal

The $2 billion putative securities class action against UBS is believed to be the last Enron-related case to make its way through the courts.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Energy M&A Down Dramatically in Early 2019. Then Came the Chevron/Anadarko Deal

U.S. oil and gas M&A value hit a 10-year low during the first quarter of 2019.
7 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Judge Confirms $734M Arbitration Award in Vantage Deepwater, Petrobras Drilling Dispute

Two oil and gas companies clashed in federal court in Texas over whether a contract between them was obtained through alleged bribery, revealed through “Operation Car Wash,” a massive public corruption investigation in Brazil.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Former Federal Circuit Clerks Launch IPR-Focused Firm

Michelle Armond of Knobbe Martens and Douglas Wilson of Heim, Payne & Chorush say Patent Office practice has evened the playing field for a new entrant like Armond Wilson.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigator of the Week: QE's Stern Hits Pay Dirt in $720M Win for Deepwater Driller

'No matter how much the other side tries to cherry pick evidence to suggest the award is wrong-headed, you have to stay focused on what's really at issue.'
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Duke Energy, Tampa Electric Tap Tax Cuts to Pay Storm Costs

Determining costs for restoring electricity after hurricanes and major storms is a complicated process, in part because of issues such as utilities bringing in crews from other parts of the country.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Is Biomass-Derived Electricity Coming Soon to a Town Near You?

For now, hydropower and wind account for most of the nation's renewables, with utility-scale solar in a distant third place. Biomass-derived electricity lags behind solar, but certain regulatory and marketplace changes may make it a bigger player in the future.
5 minute read

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