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  • July 21, 2025

    Baker McKenzie Brings Back IP Ace In Dallas

    Baker McKenzie announced Monday that it has fortified its intellectual property offerings in Dallas with a partner who is rejoining the firm from Forrest Weldon Law Group LLP.

  • July 21, 2025

    Conn's Ch. 11 Plan Approved With Opt-Outs

    A Texas bankruptcy judge on Monday confirmed the Chapter 11 plan of department store Conn's, overruling objections from the U.S. Trustee's Office that it contained improper release and exculpation provisions.

  • July 18, 2025

    Law360 Names 2025's Top Attorneys Under 40

    Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2025, our list of more than 150 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.

  • July 18, 2025

    Top 4 Texas Court Rulings Of 2025: Midyear Report

    Texas courts made several high-profile decisions in the first half of 2025, including backing a multibillion-dollar mattress merger, awarding more than $6 million to employees fired by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and granting the state a $1.4 billion data privacy settlement with Google. Here are four of the biggest court rulings in Texas so far this year.

  • July 18, 2025

    Texas Panel Says RE Funds Can Bar Manager, For Now

    A Texas appellate court mostly kept intact a court order barring the former manager of multiple commercial real estate funds from interfering with the funds going forward, saying the funds had done enough to show the former manager was undercutting their financial interests.

  • July 18, 2025

    Real Estate Recap: Budget, 2025 Deals, Coney Island Gamble

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including real estate attorney perspectives on the new federal budget, the law firms that guided the biggest deals of 2025's first half and why one BigLaw attorney is betting on a Coney Island development.

  • July 18, 2025

    Stewart Issues Discretion Decisions For 56 More Petitions

    Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart issued 25 more orders on requests for discretionary denial, deciding a total of 56 cases, while the results of earlier proceedings she let move forward have started to roll out.

  • July 18, 2025

    Texas Appeals Court Says City Wanted Too Much In Royalties

    A Texas appeals court affirmed a lower court's ruling against the city of Crowley, Texas, on Thursday, finding that the city's energy agreement with TotalEnergies E&P USA Inc. requires gas royalty payments to be calculated solely based on the market value of the gas at the point of sale.

  • July 18, 2025

    Ex-CEO Again Pushes For Standing In Judge Romance Case

    The former CEO of a defunct barge company has again urged a court to rule that he has standing to sue over a former bankruptcy judge's secret romance with an attorney, writing in a supplemental filing that "certain issues" had "not been fully briefed."

  • July 18, 2025

    Texas Court Tosses Cities' Challenge To 'Death Star' Bill

    A state appeals court tossed three Texas cities' challenge to a bill nicknamed the "Death Star," writing that they hadn't properly shown they'd be injured by the bill's mandate that state law preempt local ordinances.

  • July 18, 2025

    Norton Rose, Wachtell Guide $321.5M Texas Bank Deal

    Wachtell Lipton-led Prosperity Bancshares Inc. said Friday it will acquire American Bank, advised by Norton Rose Fulbright, in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $321.5 million, expanding the Texas lender's footprint in key South and Central Texas markets.

  • July 18, 2025

    Retailer At Home Gets Final OK On $600M Bankruptcy Loan

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge signed off Friday on furniture retailer At Home's request to borrow up to $600 million in Chapter 11 financing, approving the loan after the debtor resolved an objection from unsecured creditors.

  • July 17, 2025

    Google Gets AGs' Ad Tech Trial Delayed In Texas

    A Texas federal judge Thursday delayed an upcoming jury trial in antitrust litigation brought by a Texas-led coalition of attorneys general targeting Google's advertising placement technology business until there's a final judgment in a similar case led by the U.S. Department of Justice in Virginia.

  • July 17, 2025

    FCC Claims Broadcaster Owes 7 Times Judge's Fine

    The Federal Communications Commission says it isn't pleased with the $188,000 in fines an administrative law judge slapped a former licensee with for paying "utterly no attention" to the agency's rules, telling the judge the fine should be seven times higher.

  • July 17, 2025

    Dallas Can Fight AG To Keep Records, Appeals Court Says

    A Texas appeals court gave the city of Dallas another shot at keeping records of alleged housing discrimination away from the public, saying Thursday that the city challenged an order to release the records from the Texas attorney general in time to pursue its suit.

  • July 17, 2025

    FedEx Must Face Drivers' OT Suit After Sanctions Bid Fails

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday denied FedEx's motion for sanctions seeking to dismiss one of several overtime lawsuits filed on behalf of drivers who worked for the shipping giant through intermediary employers, rejecting the company's assertion that the litigation seeks to "harass FedEx into settlement."

  • July 17, 2025

    Norfolk Southern Blames Quarry For $2.1M Sinkhole Costs

    Norfolk Southern has sued the current and former owners of a Philadelphia-area quarry for more than $2.1 million, alleging Wednesday that their decades of mining operations opened up a sinkhole that caused a 2023 train derailment.

  • July 17, 2025

    FCC Asks 5th Circ. To Reinstate $57M AT&T Data Privacy Fine

    The Federal Communications Commission is asking for the full Fifth Circuit to take up an April panel decision finding the commission's in-house adjudications unconstitutional, arguing that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision "effectively abrogated" the precedent that the panel ruling for AT&T was partly predicated on.

  • July 17, 2025

    Texas AG Sues Nat'l Org. Over Trans Swimmer Participation

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a state lawsuit against U.S. Masters Swimming Inc. and its state chapters, accusing the entity of violating Texas law by allowing transgender women to compete with cisgender women in swim meets.

  • July 17, 2025

    Steward Health Says Ex-Execs Oversaw Fraudulent Transfers

    Insolvent hospital operator Steward Health has sued former leaders of the business — including a surgeon who stepped down as CEO last year — in connection to its Chapter 11, alleging they executed a series of transactions that plundered the company's coffers when it was financially troubled.

  • July 17, 2025

    Nursing Home Suit Is Med Mal, Tossed For Lack Of Expert

    A Texas appellate court on Thursday dismissed a man's suit against a nursing home claiming its negligence led to his mother's death after she fell and hit her head, finding his suit is a medical malpractice claim, so he needed an expert report to support his allegations.

  • July 17, 2025

    Greyhound Murder Victim's Family Blames Security Shortfalls

    The family of an Indiana man who was fatally stabbed aboard a Greyhound bus traveling from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., in 2023 has filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania state court, claiming the bus company lacked security screening that might have prevented the attack.

  • July 17, 2025

    5th Circ. Won't Reinstate Fired Officer's Age Bias Fight

    The Fifth Circuit refused to reopen a former deputy constable's lawsuit alleging that a Texas county fired him because he was a middle-aged man, ruling Thursday that it found no reason to disturb a lower court's dismissal of the case.

  • July 17, 2025

    Insurer Says Pollution Exclusion Applies To Asbestos Suits

    A Berkshire Hathaway unit said it doesn't owe coverage to a paint and drywall product manufacturer in a number of asbestos exposure suits, telling a Texas federal court Thursday that coverage is barred by a pollution exclusion in its umbrella and excess policies.

  • July 17, 2025

    Houston Texans Say No Thought Behind Ticket Holders' Suit

    A group of longtime Houston Texans season ticket holders told a judge Thursday that they were "blackballed" with increased prices after 20 years of loyalty, while the team countered that their antitrust claims "do not have a lot of thought."

Expert Analysis

  • Bills' Defeat Means Brighter Outlook For Texas Renewables

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    The failure of a trio of bills from the recently concluded Texas legislative session that would have imposed new burdens on wind, solar and battery storage projects bodes well for a state with rapidly growing energy needs, say attorneys at Troutman.

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    Playing The Violin Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing violin in a string quartet reminds me that flexibility, ambition, strong listening skills, thoughtful leadership and intentional collaboration are all keys to a successful legal practice, says Julie Park at MoFo.

  • Employer Tips As Deepfakes Reshape Workplace Harassment

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    As the workplace harassment landscape faces the rising threat of fabricated media that hyperrealistically depict employees in sexual or malicious contexts, employers can stay ahead of the curve by tracking new legal obligations, and proactively updating policies, training and response protocols, say attorneys at Littler.

  • DOJ's 1st M&A Declination Shows Value Of Self-Disclosures

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's recent decision not to charge private equity firm White Deer Management — the first such declination under an M&A safe harbor policy announced last year — signals that even in high-priority national security matters, the DOJ looks highly upon voluntary self-disclosures, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Self-Care

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    Law schools don’t teach the mental, physical and emotional health maintenance tools necessary to deal with the profession's many demands, but practicing self-care is an important key to success that can help to improve focus, manage stress and reduce burnout, says Rachel Leonard​​​​​​​ at MG+M.

  • New Laws Show How States Are Checking AI Developers

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    Recent state consumer protection legislation shows Utah, Colorado and Texas are primed to impose controls on artificial intelligence, and exemplifies the states' unwillingness to accord strong deference to developers and deployers of AI tools, say attorneys at Polsinelli.

  • Nev. Steps Up Efforts To Attract Incorporations With New Law

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    Recent amendments to Nevada corporate law, which will narrow controlling stockholders’ liability, streamline mergers and allow companies to opt out of jury trials, show the interstate competition to attract new and reincorporating companies is still heating up, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • What Expanding Merchant Code Regs Mean For Processors

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    Arkansas and South Dakota recently joined a host of other states that restrict payment processors' usage of merchant category codes with laws that include noteworthy prohibitions against maintaining registries of firearms owners, with ramifications for multistate payment systems, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.

  • Texas' Cactus Ruling Clarifies 'Produced Water' Rules

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    The Texas Supreme Court's decision in Cactus Water Services v. COG Operating, holding that mineral interest lessees have the rights to water extracted alongside oil and gas, should benefit industry players by clarifying the rules — but it leaves important questions about royalties unresolved, say attorneys at Yetter Coleman.

  • ABA Opinion Makes It A Bit Easier To Drop A 'Hot Potato'

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    The American Bar Association's recent ethics opinion clarifies when attorneys may terminate clients without good cause, though courts may still disqualify a lawyer who drops a client like a hot potato, so sending a closeout letter is always a best practice, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

  • Tesla's Robotaxi Push Exposes Gaps In Product Liability Law

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    As Tesla's deployment of robotaxis on public roads in Austin, Texas, faces regulatory scrutiny and legislative pushback, the legal community confronts an unprecedented challenge: how to apply traditional fault principles, product liability laws and insurance practices to vehicles that operate as rolling computers, says Don Fountain at Clark Fountain.

  • Justices Rewrite Rules For Challenging Enviro Agency Actions

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    Three recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings — Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas, Oklahoma v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and EPA v. Calumet Shreveport Refining — form a jurisprudential watershed in administrative and environmental law, affirming statutory standing and venue provisions as the backbone of coherent judicial review, say attorneys at GableGotwals.

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    My Opera And Baseball Careers Make Me A Better Lawyer

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    Though participating in opera and the world of professional baseball often pulls me away from the office, my avocations improve my legal career by helping me perform under scrutiny, prioritize team success, and maintain joy and perspective at work, says Adam Unger at Herrick Feinstein.

  • High Court ACA Ruling May Harm Preventative Care

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Kennedy v. Braidwood last week, ruling that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary has authority over an Affordable Care Act preventive care task force, risks harming the credibility of the task force and could open the door to politicians dictating clinical recommendations, says Michael Kolber at Manatt.

  • 8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work

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    Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.

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