A Texas appeals court on Thursday pushed the son of deceased billionaire and Houston Texans founder Robert McNair to explain why a probate court has no jurisdiction over claims that he surreptitiously placed poison pill agreements into the companies he ran.
A Texas appeals court on Thursday pushed the son of deceased billionaire and Houston Texans founder Robert McNair to explain why a probate court has no jurisdiction over claims that he surreptitiously placed poison pill agreements into the companies he ran.
The full Fifth Circuit pushed multiple immigrants' rights organizations to explain why a Texas law allowing the state to arrest unauthorized immigrants could not stand, asking Thursday where it says in the U.S. Constitution immigrants have a right to file for asylum.
The Fifth Circuit is standing behind a lower court's decision throwing out a verdict of more than $75 million that plastics manufacturer Trinseo Europe GmbH won in a suit accusing a former Dow Chemical Co. employee and Kellogg Brown & Root LLC of swiping trade secrets.
The full Fifth Circuit appeared divided Thursday on whether President Donald Trump can label any threat an "invasion" or "predatory incursion" under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, with judges split between giving the president broad deference and those doubtful the courts have only a limited role.
Duane Morris LLP has appointed a litigation partner to helm its Texas offices in Dallas and Fort Worth as the first managing partner of those locations transitions to an of counsel role.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP has bolstered its Texas litigation platform and deepened its offerings to financial services clients confronting complex regulatory and enforcement challenges with a Dallas-based partner who came aboard from McGuireWoods LLP.
Littler Mendelson PC has elected New York shareholder William J. Anthony to serve as chair of its 19-member 2026 Board of Directors and named three new board members.
In 2025, the Federal Circuit's increased output was not enough to keep up with its ever-growing patent case load, and patent owners and applicants fared poorly overall as the court's affirmance rate fell, says Dan Bagatell at Perkins Coie.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's granting Texas primary authority over wells used to inject carbon dioxide into deep rock formations is a significant step forward for carbon capture and storage projects in the state — but Louisiana's experience after it was granted primacy offers a cautionary tale, say attorneys at Phelps Dunbar.
Opening my home to foreign exchange students makes me a better lawyer not just because prioritizing visiting high schoolers forces me to hone my organization and time management skills but also because sharing the study-abroad experience with newcomers and locals reconnects me to my community, says Alison Lippa at Nicolaides Fink.
A former Baker McKenzie associate who was sued for defamation over a series of social media posts accusing the firm's Washington, D.C., managing partner of sexual assault has brought her own lawsuit, marking the first time she publicly detailed her allegations in court records.
Shortly after former special counsel Jack Smith gave his first public congressional testimony on the Trump cases, in which he warned the rule of law should not be taken for granted, President Donald Trump said he should be prosecuted.
A former lawyer at SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's firm said Thursday that Goldstein told coworkers that the more than $960,000 in cash he brought off a flight from Hong Kong — the source of which is integral to the government's case — had come from a client.
The American Bar Association said attorneys have a limited responsibility to convey information to former clients or successor counsel that was not within the client's file, when doing so is necessary to protect a client's interests and reasonably practicable, according to a new ethics opinion.
A proposal to loosen restrictions on the use of federal criminal subpoenas would endanger and further traumatize victims of crime, most of whom lack legal representation to fight the invasive demands, victims' rights advocates told a federal rules advisory committee on Thursday.
Pennsylvania's highest court has adopted a balancing test for restricting a sitting judge's free speech outside the context of an election and, in doing so, affirmed the suspension of a state court judge who it said damaged the court's appearance of impartiality by making political posts on social media.
National litigation news outlet Courthouse News Service has voluntarily and permanently dropped claims against a Washington, D.C., Superior Court clerk and the executive officer of the D.C. courts over filing delays, with both sides agreeing to pay their own costs.
