A Texas doctor, who’s part of a physicians’ group that promotes using hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19, brought her defamation suit against Cable News Network Inc. in the wrong federal district, a federal judge said. But rather than dismiss Stella Immanuel’s suit, Judge Amos L. Mazzant III of the US District […]
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Iris Jones, chief marketing and client development officer at Akerman, spent the first few years of her career as the Austin city attorney and doing civil trial work at a small firm in Austin. Since then, Jones, who joined Akerman last May, has spent more than two decades working in client […]
A corporate strategy that gained attention in a Johnson & Johnson spinoff’s bankruptcy continues to face uncertainty despite a refusal to dismiss the Chapter 11 case. The maneuver, known as the Texas Two-Step because of its reliance on Texas corporate law, involves a company spinning off a unit and transferring […]
A conservative Disney employee said the company is ‘making a terrible miscalculation’ for opposing the just-signed ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, and suggested Republican staff and parkgoers may boycott the famous theme park. Jose Castillo, who is also running for Congress in Florida, said his employer’s decision to oppose the controversial […]
With a tight hiring market in Texas, firms launching new offices in the Lone Star state are increasingly not only hiring locally but staffing with lawyers transferring from other offices, some of them coming home to Texas. The strategy is not new—it’s been used over the years to help anchor […]
Major League Baseball’s New York Mets will soon have a new top lawyer in Katherine Pothier, who is leaving her post as general counsel for the Texas Rangers. Pothier will make somewhat of a homecoming as she is a New Jersey native and graduate of Rutgers Law School. She confirmed […]
McGuireWoods has brought aboard veteran Texas consultant Matt Matthews as a firm partner and a senior vice president for its McGuireWoods Consulting team in Austin. Matthews had been a chief of staff in the Texas Senate, general counsel to the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee, and chief of staff to […]
Austin, Texas – Today, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Campaign Legal Center (CLC), the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas (ACLU Texas), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and DĒMOS filed a lawsuit asking the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas […]
The Texas law has novel features. Usually, a lawsuit seeking to block a law because it is unconstitutional would name state officials as defendants. However, the Texas law, which makes no exceptions for pregnancies resulting from incest or rape, bars most state officials from enforcing it and instead deputizes private […]
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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas labor market appears to have rebounded from the pandemic, with rapid population growth driving a demand for jobs. The state ended 2021 with about 13.06 million nonagricultural jobs […]
Cooley is looking to hire lawyers in Texas, even though the California-founded law firm’s closest offices are roughly 1,000 miles away. The firm in recent weeks has offered jobs to corporate associates at Sidley Austin and other rivals in Texas, according to three sources familiar with Cooley’s recruiting efforts. The […]