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Blockbuster Hires Kirkland And Ellis For Financial Issues

Blockbuster Hires Kirkland And Ellis For Financial Issues

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 Names Five New Partners

Thompson and Knight Names Five New Partners

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.…

Texas Lawyer and Bush Ally Considering Democratic Run for Governor

Texas Lawyer and Bush Ally Considering Democratic Run for Governor

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.…

Texas Supreme Court To Hear Public Information Case

Texas Supreme Court To Hear Public Information Case

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…

Attorney In Keller Case Wants To Take Less, But Says He Can’t

Attorney In Keller Case Wants To Take Less, But Says He Can’t

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…

Texas Firms Made Fewer Lateral Hires in 2008

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…

Judge Resigns, Moves to Law Firm to Make More Money

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 Adds IP Partners in Austin, London

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…

Law Firm “Partner” Not Really a Lawyer?

Law Firm “Partner” Not Really a Lawyer?

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…

Greenberg Traurig Austin Adds Securities Team

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…