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October 26, 2005 |

Amici Urge Rehearing and Reversal of 'Frank's Casing'

For the past decade, business interests and tort reform advocates were satisfied with their fate at the Texas Supreme Court, where corporate defendants often prevail. But that was before the court decided Frank's Casing, creating a battle that pits two groups normally on the same side of civil litigation -- business interests and insurance companies -- against each other. Now, as the court weighs whether to rehear the case, a flurry of amicus briefs are pleading with the court to change its mind.
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November 19, 2007 |

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January 19, 2006 |

Most Associate Bonuses at Large Texas Firms Mirror Last Year's

With some enviously high exceptions, bonuses paid at the end of 2005 to associates with large Texas firms were similar to bonuses paid at the end of 2004. Sure, Houston's Susman Godfrey paid out year-end bonuses ranging from $86,000 to $150,000 -- averaging 75 percent of each associate's base pay -- but most associates statewide received considerably less. George Lamb, chairman of Baker Botts' associate compensation committee, says its two-tier bonus is based on merit and on productivity.
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June 24, 2004 |

Courting Shell

When Shell Oil held a beauty contest last year to pick a group of "strategic partners" -- a small nucleus of firms that would handle most of its legal work -- a key factor in the Houston-based company's selections was serious, provable commitment to diversity at all levels of a firm's hierarchy. Shell's move signals a market change: Clients are pushing for diversity, and the business case for it is becoming clearer.
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July 01, 2008 |

THE A-LIST 2008: 51-200

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May 12, 2010 |

Probation Rules, Sex Offender Listing Need Not Be Aired at Pleas

The state's highest court yesterday let stand the guilty pleas of two sex offenders who argued that they had been unaware of the consequences of their admissions. A 4-3 Court of Appeals concluded, in a decision written by Judge Susan Phillips Read, that mandatory registration as a sex offender and the imposition of terms and conditions of probation constitute collateral consequences of conviction, which a trial court is not obligated to discuss at a plea hearing.
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August 22, 2005 |

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Crabby Jacks pays out $6.1M in drunk-driving case. Reassignment of pregnant woman wasn't discrimination, jury finds. Worker fired for filing workers' comp claim.
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Houston Judge Leaves Class of Casket Buyers Six Feet Under
Publication Date: 2009-03-31
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A class action alleging a nationwide price-fixing conspiracy between the country's leading casket maker and three major funeral home chains has one foot in the grave after a two-page ruling last week by Houston federal district court judge Kenneth Hoyt denying class certification.

Stroock Squares Off Against N.Y. Gallery for Sotheby's in $26 Million Contract Case
Publication Date: 2012-04-05
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Contemporary artist Cady Noland's aluminum plate sculpture "Oozewald" fetched $6.6 million when it went on the block last November. But a separate Noland piece that Sotheby's pulled from the same auction at Noland's request could end up costing the artist and the auction house four times that much.

Citing Dictionary, Rakoff Turns Up the Heat on Banks
Publication Date: 2013-08-20
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After thumbing through Webster's Dictionary, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff rejected arguments by Bank of America that prosecutors were misinterpreting a key provision of the Financial Institutional Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act in order to pursue fraud claims against the bank.

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