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East Coast Law Firms Opening L.A. Offices
Los Angeles has morphed into a hotbed of recruiting in the past eight months as several midsized firms from the East Coast aggressively open offices.Time May Be Right to Push for Texas Shield Law
When James Byrd Jr. was dragged to death in 1998, the brutal murder sparked hate crime legislation in Texas -- an effort that ultimately failed. Now, the trial of one of Byrd's alleged attackers may cause lawmakers to push a bill that's of interest to both journalists and criminal lawyers. When CBS' "60 Minutes II" was forced to hand over to prosecutors the transcript of an interview with Shawn Allen Berry, the incident highlighted the lack of a Texas media shield law.
West Texans Fight Sunshine Law's Constitutionality
Could one of Texas' most prominent criminal-defense attorneys dismantle the Texas Open Meetings Act — the 39-year-old law that's a bedrock principle of state government requiring decisions to be made in public? Dick DeGuerin of Houston's DeGuerin Dickson & Hennessy thinks he can.Bimbo GC: It's Not What You Think
Since Claudia Coscia became the first GC for Fort Worth-based Bimbo Bakeries USA in 1998, she has reduced the company's legal costs by more than 50 percent. She says the savings came from a combination of tactics, including doing more work in-house, closer management of outside counsel and negotiation of fixed-fee schedules. And for the record, the name of the company -- the U.S. operation of a Mexico City-based entity -- comes from a combination of "bambino" and "Bambi."
First Amendment Protects Newsletter Stock Advice
In a case of first impression, Fort Worth's 2nd Court of Appeals recently ruled that the author and the publisher of a financial newsletter deserve First Amendment protection from claims alleging they printed bad investment advice.
Atlanta Firms Slow Flow of M&A Deals to New York
It used to be that an Atlanta company preparing for a big deal would shun its local counsel for a Manhattan law firm. Now, mergers and acquisitions practices at Atlanta firms routinely handle multibillion-dollar transactions. Case in point: Smith, Gambrell & Russell partner Robert Paller, who represented AirTran Airways when the discount airline raised $4.5 billion to buy 114 planes from Boeing. The rise of Atlanta firms comes as the national value of M&A deals rose to $1.1 trillion last year.
Dreier IP Group Lands at Troutman Sanders
Troutman Sanders said Tuesday it is expanding its New York office by hiring five intellectual property lawyers who were left adrift after the abrupt collapse in December of Dreier LLP. The group, led by senior patent litigator Albert Jacobs Jr., has had a bumpy ride. Jacobs brought his team to Dreier from Greenberg Traurig in 2007. But 18 months later, Marc Dreier was under arrest for fraud and Jacobs' group was rushing to escape the fallout. "It's not the way I wanted to spend my Christmas, let's just say," Jacobs said.TRENDING STORIES
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