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Texas Lawyer

Balch & Bingham Launches in Houston With Lateral Partner Pair

Balch & Bingham, a 200-lawyer firm based in Birmingham, Alabama, hired two energy and M&A partners in the Texas expansion.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Fraud, Third-Party Risks Still Top Concerns for Chief Compliance Officers

The January 2020 Corporate Compliance & Ethics Report, developed in connection with the Consero Group's biannual forum on compliance and ethics, showed more than one-third of participants rated fraud and financial issues as their No. 1 concern.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Council on Environmental Quality Proposes Amendments to NEPA Regulations

If a newly proposed rulemaking is finalized, the process by which federal agencies are required to analyze the environmental impacts caused by their actions could be comprehensively updated for the first time in over four decades.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Potential of the PFAS Action Act of 2019

While some manufacturers have argued that bioaccumulation only occurs with the older, so-called "long-chain" PFAS, not "short-chain" PFAS, both are equally toxic. PFAS have been linked to heightened cholesterol, cancer, low infant birth weights, immunological effects and thyroid hormone disruption.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

Sullivan & Cromwell Blasts 'Tortured' Claims in $13M Suit Over Laos Project

The firm says a former Skadden associate's suit relies on "illogical arguments to try to manufacture 20 causes of action against S&C."
4 minute read

Law.com

Law Deans Implore Federal Judges to Follow Clerk Hiring Plan

"The points they made, I think, are extremely persuasive," said Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Sills Cummis Faces Disqualification Bid in Battle Over Oil Refining Technology

The disqualification motion says that Sills Cummis is conflicted out of representing plaintiff Pristec Refining Technologies, a closely held entity, because of the law firm's concurrent duties to defendants who are constituent members of that company.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Energy Policy Transparency Group Aims to Unseal Documents in Exxon Climate Change Case

The Hagens Berman lawyer is arguing that his communications with the Attorney General's Office are being targeted as part of a "national campaign against anyone seeking to hold Exxon liable for climate change."
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Up the Learning Curve: Tips for New Energy Transactional Lawyers

Each year, many newly minted Texas lawyers start their legal careers as energy transactional attorneys. Like most new lawyers, they face a steep learning curve…
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Winston & Strawn Makes Houston Power Grab for Locke Lord Capital Markets Co-Chairs

Winston & Strawn continues its strategy of beefing up capital markets and M&A heft in Houston by hiring the two partners who lead Locke Lord's global capital markets practice.
3 minute read

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