HOUSTON - The 14th Court of Appeals today dismissed a lawsuit alleging a Houston Police Department vehicle responding to an armed robbery collided with another vehicle while running a red light.
HOUSTON – Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Brad Howell as a Member in its Product Liability Practice Group resident in the firm’s Houston office, a press release states
HOUSTON — The family of the late Dr. Talat Khan, a physician at Texas Children’s Hospital before her death, filed a lawsuit after she was fatally stabbed inside her apartment complex.
HOUSTON – Locke Lord has announced that Jon Daly has joined the Firm’s Houston office as a Partner in the Corporate and Transactional Practice Group. Daly brings a broad range of experience in corporate and financing transactions, particularly energy capital markets, that will further diversify the Firm’s existing capabilities in Texas. He joins Locke Lord from Sidley Austin LLP, a press release states.
HOUSTON – Bradley Arant Boult Cummings has announced that Whitney Wester has joined the firm’s Houston office as an associate in the Litigation and Construction practice groups, a press release states.
HOUSTON — O’Melveny announced today that Garrett Johnston has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner in its Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group. Johnston is the latest in a series of highly regarded lawyers who have joined O’Melveny in Texas, bolstering its already outstanding private equity team in the state, a press release states.
HOUSTON — Managing partner Benny Agosto Jr. and attorney Edward Festeryga of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner announced today that they have reached a confidential settlement on behalf of former Houston Rockets scout Sheffery Brent “BJ” Johnson, his mother, widow, and son against Pulice Construction, a press release states.
HOUSTON – McGuireWoods continues the growth of its global litigation capabilities with the arrival of Houston partner Jeremiah Anderson, who brings nearly two decades of experience representing multinational companies in commercial litigation, including energy and construction industry disputes, a press release state.
HOUSTON — Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner will each submit Notices of Intent to Sue pursuant to the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act to Union Pacific Railroad in connection with long-standing contamination in Houston’s Fifth Ward from UP’s Houston Wood Preserving Works creosote treatment facility, a press release states.
HOUSTON - Michael Cortez has joined BakerHostetler’s Houston office as a partner in the firm’s Business Practice Group and member of the Real Estate team, a press release states.
HOUSTON - The SEC is reporting a sharp increase in whistleblower complaints since the pandemic shutdown, with swelling numbers of laid off workers reporting their employers for wrongdoing.
While a lower court denied the City of Houston’s plea to the jurisdiction in Bobby Terry’s case against it, an appeals court reversed that ruling and dismissed the case altogether.
A messy legal battle between the City of Houston and Hope For Families, Inc. continues as an appeals court affirms in part and reverses in part a trial court’s ruling that denied the city’s motion to dismiss the case because of immunity.
Bradley is pleased to announce that Gabriella E. Alonso has joined the firm’s Houston office as an associate in the Banking and Financial Services Practice Group.
In the two years since Congress overhauled trade secret laws, a spike of court filings and a record-setting judgement could signal the opening of a new frontier in misusing intellectual property law reminiscent of patent trolling which has become a drag on economic growth.
Vernis & Bowling is proud to announce that Tom Paradise, Esq. and John McClurkin, Esq. will be presenters at the Cemex/Gallagher Bassett partnership meeting in Houston, TX this February.
