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September 07, 2018
McKool Smith PC in the last year helped Ericsson Inc. win $110 million in a cell phone patent infringement case against a rival and cemented a $9.4 million royalty case victory for a Michael Jackson producer who helped the King of Pop create some of his biggest hits, underlining its courtroom strengths.
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September 06, 2018
Haynes and Boone LLP's Texas attorneys have recently handled an impressive series of cases and transactions, including a $1 billion offering that allowed the CEO of Landry's to purchase the Houston Rockets, a $3.8 billion merger for an oil and gas company and defeating a gambling suit against the NFL.
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September 05, 2018
Vinson & Elkins LLP, founded 101 years ago in the early days of Texas' oil boom, flexed its muscles inside and outside of the energy realm last year, advising RSP Permian Inc. in a $9.5 billion deal to create the largest unconventional Permian Basin shale producer and notching the largest-ever jury award against Texas in a condemnation case.
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September 04, 2018
Baker Botts LLP has shown its strength this past year, playing a role in tens of billions of dollars' worth of energy deals, including BHP Billiton LLP's $10.5 billion onshore asset sale and Vectren Corp.'s $6 billion merger with CenterPoint Energy, winning a drilling lease dispute before the Texas Supreme Court and fighting off a network technology patent suit against AT&T Inc.
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August 31, 2018
Attorneys in Susman Godfrey LLP's Houston home base have tallied an impressive series of recent wins, including a $706.2 million verdict for HouseCanary in trade secrets and contract litigation, a victory for Walmart in a dispute with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission and advancing a case that challenges the bail system of Harris County as unconstitutional.
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August 30, 2018
The recovery of oil prices and the continued influx of out-of-state firms entering the Texas legal market led to an active and competitive year for firms statewide, but five law firms edged out the rest with work including paving the way for the purchase of the Houston Rockets, opening the door for major retailers like Walmart Inc. to sell liquor in Texas and reshaping oilfield ownership.
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September 29, 2017
In the year the firm is celebrating 100 years in business, Vinson & Elkins LLP attorneys have notched victories including convincing a state's high court to side with its client, Energy Transfer Equity LP, in a $38 billion merger dispute, and representing energy company Memorial Resource Development Corp. in a $4.2 billion merger with Range Resources Corp.
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September 28, 2017
By shutting down a mineral rights dispute, landing key patent victories in and out of court and turning its tenacity toward convincing the Fifth Circuit to change its mind in a major Ponzi scheme case, Norton Rose Fulbright's Texas litigators helped the firm shine.
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September 27, 2017
Latham & Watkins LLP's representation of Energy Transfer Partners in a $21.3 billion consolidation with Sunoco Logistics Partners, a transaction that created the second-largest master limited partnership in the country, is just one example of the work that has established it as a firm that is able to handle complex and sophisticated transactions in the competitive Texas energy market.
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September 26, 2017
A half-billion dollar trial win against a Facebook subsidiary and crucial appellate victories for energy titans Exxon Mobil and BP highlight the formidable litigation strength of Haynes and Boone LLP over the past year.
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September 25, 2017
Helping Halliburton exit a hard-fought securities class action with a $100 million settlement, just 2 percent of what disgruntled investors wanted, and guiding MEGlobal on the $4 billion development of a petrochemical plant ranked among the standout actions during a busy year for long-established Texas firm Baker Botts LLP.
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September 22, 2017
In a legal market where national and regional firms are trying to break in every day and their midsize and boutique counterparts are gunning for valuable pieces of the pie, the five Texas firms on Law360's Powerhouse list have thrived by harnessing deep strengths in the energy sector and big-ticket litigation in a variety of areas.
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July 26, 2016
All litigation powerhouses boast talented trial lawyers, but the 20 firms at the top of their game don't just rely on their litigators. Here, we talk about the four traits that led the elite of the Litigation Powerhouses to become the go-to firms for bet-the-company cases.
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July 26, 2016
Five relatively small but fearsome law firms landed a spot on Law360's 2016 list of 50 Litigation Powerhouses after they laced up their gloves and brought the pain in their fights for clients, winning some of the biggest cases over the past year.
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July 26, 2016
Historic, precedent-setting wins in class action litigation. Jaw-dropping jury verdicts in courts across the country. Victories in the smartphone wars. Dramatic upsets on appeal. Law360's Litigation Powerhouses leveraged their deep legal talent to score remarkable wins for their clients over the past year, landing them a spot on our inaugural ranking of the top firms for litigation.
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June 02, 2015
With a history of measured expansion at strategic intervals, Haynes and Boone has shown that a focus on long-term investments can yield success in both good markets and bad. That focus has paid off in its core areas — energy, IP and others — and brought wins in hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of litigation over the past year.
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June 01, 2015
Low oil prices have impacted energy work throughout the legal industry, but Baker Botts LLP is thriving nonetheless thanks in part to a 175-year history that has seen it tackle some of the country's worst economic disasters.
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May 29, 2015
Long known as an energy powerhouse in the state of Texas, Vinson & Elkins LLP has since grown in both scale and subject matter, allowing the firm to navigate the ebbs and flows of the energy market and finish 2014 with its most successful year on record.
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May 28, 2015
As one of the oldest and most recognized firms in Texas, Thompson & Knight LLP has left quite a mark in the Lone Star State's legal and business sectors, having tackled complex billion-dollar deals, particularly in the oil and gas industry, and far-reaching public policy matters and litigation.
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May 27, 2015
Locke Lord LLP has grown from a small Dallas firm founded nearly 125 years ago to a BigLaw entity with global reach, thanks to its recent merger with Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP, but the firm still honors its deep Texan roots by focusing on the state's booming energy, finance and telecom sectors.
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May 26, 2015
Jackson Walker LLP doesn't rely on offices in New York, Washington, London — or anywhere else outside of Texas, for that matter. But by sticking to seven cities across the state, the Texas-only firm has been able to nab top-tier lawyers from big-name firms while providing greater value to a client-base that includes national banks, media properties and energy companies.
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May 21, 2015
Gibson Dunn's Dallas office is run like an elite boutique, with its partners and "gilt-edged" associates handling the biggest-ticket litigation and corporate work for clients that have come to rely on the firm for billion-dollar disputes and billion-dollar mergers and acquisitions.
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May 20, 2015
Over the past 23 years, Beck Redden LLP has built itself a name as one of Texas' premier litigation boutiques not by shying away from trials, but by approaching them head on with every intention of litigating clients' cases when necessary, firm leaders say.
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May 18, 2015
Low oil prices may have taken their toll on energy work, but a booming state economy has kept the Texas legal market hotter than ever, with blue-chip Texas legal names, relative upstarts and even a California import rounding out the 2015 Texas Powerhouse law firms amid stiff competition.
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July 02, 2014
Over the last 40 years, Winstead PC has established a reputation as a leader among Texas-based commercial litigation and transactional boutiques while remaining true to founder Pete Winstead's ambition of building a firm where a lawyer's worth is not strictly measured in billable hours.