To help find a way out of financial woes, Blockbuster has hired the law firm of Kirkland and Ellis. The video rental company, based in Dallas, Texas, said on Tuesday…
Thompson and Knight LLP has elected five lawyers to partner status. The lawyers are Todd E. Chen, Tye C. Hancock, J. Michael Heinlen, Richard B. Phillips Jr., and Glen A.…
Fort Worth-based lawyer Tom Schieffer said on Monday he is exploring whether the Texas Democratic Party would back him in a 2010 run for governor of the Lone Star State.…
On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court agreed to consider whether state employees’ birth dates are public information or are protected by the right to privacy. The case stems from 2005…
Sharon Keller, the presiding judge of Texas’ highest criminal courts, is in a legal battle fighting charges that she violated her judicial duties in a death penalty case two years…
The National Law Journal reports that lateral movements were down in Texas last year. Nineteen of the state’s 25 largest firms, listed on Texas Lawyer’s “The Texas 100″ poster published…
Will judges, upset about recent pay freezes, start fleeing the bench for higher-paying law firm jobs? Texas State District Judge Len Wade is stepping down from the civil court bench…
King & Spalding announced today a significant expansion of its intellectual property practice with the addition of three new partners. The partners, all of whom were previously with Baker Botts…
Mauricio R. Celis, the majority partner in former Corpus Christi, Texas, law firm CGT Law Group, goes to trial in Corpus Christi today. Prosecutors are pointing to a little-used law…
Miami’s Greenberg Traurig has announced the addition of top securities litigation attorneys Paul R. Bessette, Michael J. Biles and Jesse Z. Weiss. Bessette joins as a national co-chair, and Biles…
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