Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP Litigation Practice Shareholder Bina Palnitkar has been recognized as one of 40 top young lawyers nationwide in Bloomberg Law’s inaugural edition of “They’ve Got Next: The 40 Under 40.”
HOUSTON – McGuireWoods continues expanding its nationally recognized energy industry capabilities with the arrival of Houston M&A partner Edmund Daniels, who has significant experience in senior leadership roles at major energy companies and financial firms.
WACO – Pick a day, go online and scope out Judge Alan Albright’s docket – there’s a good chance nothing but patent infringement cases will fill the screen.
SAN ANTONIO – Most people can only fantasize about getting paid tens of thousands of dollars to kick back and read the newspaper. For the controversial Mikal Watts, however, it seems to be a reality.
The Covid-19 pandemic has taught us many things about how lawyers in the United States have traditionally practiced law. While we all had a strong sense that much of the daily practice of law was more antiquated than it needed to be, leave it to a global pandemic to really bring this into focus. The crisis has tested everything from how (or if) lawyers used technology, the nuts and bolts of how you ran your practice, how you interacted with clients and your own legal and support teams, to how realistic and current your risk management plans were.
McGuireWoods was a finalist in six deal categories for the 2019 M&A Advisor Awards, which recognized top corporate transactions from the past year and the firms involved in closing them.
Very few injured Americans file lawsuits. Granted it’s been awhile since anyone took an empirical look at the numbers, but when Rand’s Institute for Civil Justice did so 1991, researchers found that only 2 percent of injured Americans file lawsuits. The National Center for State Courts recently provided another perspective: “Tort cases garner a great deal of public interest but generally account for only about 4 percent of [state court] Civil caseloads….”
McGuireWoods continues to strengthen its Texas oil and gas industry capabilities with the arrival of partner Patrick Knapp, who brings nearly a decade of experience representing domestic and international energy companies in major deals to the firm’s Dallas and Houston offices.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP expanded its Health Care & FDA Practice with the addition of powerhouse health care regulatory lawyer Charles Dunham in the firm’s Houston office as a shareholder.
Fish & Richardson is one of 26 elite “trailblazing” U.S. firms to have earned the highest designation of Mansfield 1.0 Certified Plus from Diversity Lab for having successfully reached at least 30 percent women and minority lawyer representation in a notable number of their current leadership roles and committees.
DALLAS – Medicinal-pharmaceutical corporate giant Johnson & Johnson Co. continues to battle more than 8,000 lawsuits made against the company over an allegedly defective hip implant device, and attorneys for the firm insist they are in the right despite continuing setbacks in a case that seems to have no end.
After two years of fighting it, BP has agreed to pay the remaining $1 billion of its previously reached $2.3 billion settlement to shrimpers, fisherman, oysterman and seafood processors following the oil spill in 2010.
Recently, the New York Times posted a series of articles (Part I, II, III) attacking arbitration but overlooking the value of this alternate form of dispute resolution and omitting an excess of relevant details.
TEXARKANA – A 35-year-old New Boston woman has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison on a biological weapons charge in the Eastern District of Texas.
The number of lawsuits filed in Texas over problems with DePuy hip implants is nearing 7,000, while the first trial over the alleged defects continues.
Houston-based Halliburton Energy Services – a subcontractor on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig – has agreed to pay more than $1 billion to settle claims from coastal businesses that were damaged from the 2010 rig explosion and oil spill.
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) – A study released last month shows that two U.S. Supreme Court rulings have made it more difficult for companies in the life sciences industry to obtain patents.
A Texas jury recently ordered that Johnson & Johnson and its Ethicon unit must pay $1.2 million to a former nurse who was injured by one of the manufacturer’s mesh slings used to treat incontinence.
