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June 16, 2006 |

Firms Deal With Caseloads, Pay Policies for Attorneys Called to Active Duty

Ten days after Hayes and Boone partner Andrew Fono learned he was being called to active duty, he turned his environmental litigation docket over to his partners and packed up his office in Houston. It's a rare situation for a partner to be called to active duty, and the firm didn't have a policy to deal with the situation. Most firms will supplement attorneys' military pay, as Hayes and Boone will do for Fono -- but lawyers must still contend with re-entry issues at the end of service.
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December 11, 2001 |

Many Firms Will Profit From Enron Bankruptcy

The Enron bankruptcy and litigation surrounding the company's collapse promise to keep a lot of lawyers busy for a long time. The huge bankruptcy will be a lucrative project for firms such as New York's Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Houston's Andrews & Kurth. The litigation between Enron and Dynegy Inc. is also employing firms such as Houston's Baker Botts and New York-based Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
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November 14, 2005 |

Making the Leap From PI to IP

A lot of Texas firms want to make the leap from personal injury work -- in steady decline after recent legislation -- to intellectual property work, where business is booming. While the transition from PI to IP may seem natural, it's also risky, and perhaps not quite as lucrative as budding patent litigators may think. For The Roth Law Firm, IP work certainly hasn't generated enough money for the firm to scrap its personal injury practice, but it has kept its revenue steady in the wake of tort reform.
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April 04, 2005 |

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February 04, 2002 |

An Unenviable Position

Who would want James V. Derrick Jr.`s job now? The embattled general counsel at bankrupt Enron Corp. faces inquiries from congressional investigators, plaintiffs lawyers and federal prosecutors. A mob of reporters hangs outside the door of the bankrupt company`s headquarters in downtown Houston waiting for the day`s dose of bad news.
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April 19, 2010 |

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Acacia Suffers Trial Defeat in Rocket Docket
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A federal district court jury in Virginia's Eastern District sided with a group of wireless carriers and a data card maker in a spat with patent holder Acacia Technologies.

June 30, 2003 |

Female Lawyers at Large Texas Firms

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March 15, 2002 |

Six lawyers from Houston sat at a table in Washington, D.C., on March 14, responding to questions from U.S. House members investigating the collapse of Enron Corp. Even before the klieg lights turned on, an aide to the House committee that called Enron in-house and outside counsel to the hearing indicated which of the six was the prime target - former general counsel James V. Derrick.
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January 17, 2005 |

Judges Not Bound by Guidelines' Minimum, Maximum Sentences

In a splintered and complex decision that may throw federal criminal cases into short-term chaos, the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 12 took the bite out of the federal sentencing guidelines and may have handed back to federal judges the discretion in sentencing they lost 20 years ago after the guidelines were enacted.
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