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Kirkland & Ellis announces IFLR Americas Awards 2023
International Financial Law Review (IFLR) recognized Kirkland & Ellis with three “Deal of the Year” awards at the IFLR Americas Awards 2023. -
Kirkland & Ellis announces ACG Houston Deals of the Year 2022
The Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Houston recognized Kirkland & Ellis with two awards as part of its 2022 “Deal of the Year” Awards. -
Global Litigation Top 50 2021
Global Litigation Top 50 2021. -
Preqin Service Providers in Alternative Assets 2021
Preqin Service Providers in Alternative Assets 2021. -
Kirkland & Ellis Announces New Partners
Kirkland & Ellis Announces New Partners. -
South Trailblazers 2021
South Trailblazers 2021. -
HUSCH BLACKWELL LLP: Trio of Texas-Based Lawyers Joins Husch Blackwell's Energy & Natural Resources Team
Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that its Texas-based Energy & Natural Resources team added three new attorneys. -
KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP: Webinar: Energy, Climate Change and Environmental Matters in a Biden Administration
Kirkland & Ellis is hosting a live webinar that will address energy, climate and environmental matters in a Biden Administration. -
Validity Finance says Texas civil docket booming and in need of funding - adds Kirkland Ellis, retired Magistrate Judge Henry Jones joins investment committee
According to Validity Finance, the Texas civil trial docket is booming and the growing case backlog suggests more need for funding. Validity reports demand for funding nationally up nearly 50 percent in 2020. -
KIRLAND & ELLIS LLP: PitchBook 2019 Annual Global League Tables
In PitchBook’s 2019 Annual Global League Tables report, Kirkland & Ellis ranked in the following categories. -
THE LANIER LAW FIRM: Noted Jurist, Former University President Ken Starr joins The Lanier Law Firm
Kenneth W. Starr, an attorney with a distinguished legal, academic and public service record, has joined the Lanier Law Firm in an Of Counsel position. -
KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP: Sean Wheeler Joins Kirkland & Ellis in Houston
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that Sean T. Wheeler has joined the Firm’s Houston office as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. -
iHeartMedia seeks approval for funds from $450 million debtor-in-possession facility
HOUSTON – iHeartMedia Inc. filed a motion for entry of an order in which it is seeking to obtain post-petition financing with Citibank in an attempt to pay back its pre-bankruptcy asset-based lenders and fund its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. -
Fifth Circuit nixes $151M verdict, finds Mark Lanier misrepresented that experts weren’t compensated
DALLAS – DePuy Orthopaedics and Johnson & Johnson will get a new trial after the previous one in 2016 ended with the companies having to pay $151 million in damages to five plaintiffs with alleged hip replacement injuries. -
Leaving Lochner Behind
What prompts a man to change his mind on a serious matter after 35 years, and should the reversal be met with pride (for eventually getting it right), or chagrin (for taking so long)? For reasons of vanity, I’m going to take a positive tack and choose the former. -
J&J wants $150M verdict nixed, says plaintiffs misrepresented that experts weren’t compensated
DALLAS – Earlier this year, DePuy Orthopaedics and Johnson & Johnson appealed a trial court decision that would have them pay out $150 million in damages to five plaintiffs. -
$625M verdict levied against Apple in Texas’ Eastern District
Within a year’s time, federal juries plucked from the Eastern District of Texas have levied more than $1.1 billion in damages against the Tech giant Apple Inc. for alleged patent infringement. -
Lawsuit blames rupture at $2.5B German gas cavern on Baker Hughes
A federal lawsuit accuses Baker Hughes, Inc. and Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations, Inc., doing business as a Baker Oil Tools, Inc., of property damage caused by defective sub-surface gas and oil storage equipment. In the suit filed Sept. 21 in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas, Triuva Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH alleges Baker Hughes poorly designed and manufactured the equipment in question. -
Attorney requests recusal of investigator who implicated him in alleged BP claims scam
NEW ORLEANS – A local attorney who was implicated in an attempt to hide a referral fee provided to a BP claims attorney while a $7.9 million claim was being handled has asked the investigator who returned to be recused. -
Recent patent infringement/false patent marking cases filed in the Eastern District of Texas
Recent patent infringement/false patent marking cases filed in the Eastern District of Texas, March 8-14, 2011.