Texas Lawyer

Seyfarth Launches Energy Transactions Practice in Houston With Polsinelli Team

A team from Polsinelli, led by partner Chris Cottrell, moved to Seyfarth Shaw's Houston office to start an energy transactions practice at the firm.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Houston Appeals Court Reverses $1.5M Award Against Oil, Gas Equipment Firm

The appeals court said a contract must be sufficiently definite in its terms to be legally binding.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: A $604.9M Trade Secrets Verdict With a Big Assist From a Juror Question

Michael Ng and Daniel Zaheer of Kobre & Kim represented renewable fuels company Propel against Phillips 66 Co. alongside colleagues in a month-long trial in California state court. Ng argued at closings that a juror question elicited a "confession" from a Phillips executive admitting to liability and trade secret misappropriation.
9 minute read

Texas Lawyer

$604.9M Verdict Returned in Low-Carbon Fuels Trade Secrets Trial

A key event at trial was a response to a juror's question, Michael Ng said, where the Phillips 66 executive charged with implementing the company's new fuels business inadvertently confessed to the use of proprietary marketing data.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Securities Case Over Hawaiian Electric Company's Wildfire Readiness Dismissed

The decision is a win for Skadden in its representation of the Hawaii utility that was faced with a securities class action claim stemming its communications about a wildfire in Maui.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Big Firms Add Energy and Litigation Lateral Partners

The moves in energy-related practices come as more firms are seeing an uptick in work within the renewable space in light of federal legislation.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Kristin Coleman Out as GC of Albemarle Amid Leadership Reshuffle

Stepping in as Coleman's successor is Deputy General Counsel Stacy Grant, who joined the specialty chemicals maker last year.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

'Onerous Speech Code'?: Wiley Rein Says Md. Green Power Law Violates 1st Amendment Rights

"The Act violates the speech and commerce rights of renewable residential electricity suppliers such as REAL members and their subsidiaries and threatens them with irreparable economic injuries," according to the allegations in the complaint. "Accordingly, the Act is unconstitutional under the First Amendment."
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

The Inflation Reduction Act: Evaluating Its Impact on Renewable Energy Producers and Analyzing Emerging Needs

As we look back on its impacts, it is essential to assess how the IRA has influenced renewable energy production and consider emerging energy-supply requirements, particularly with the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence (AI).
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

FTC Bans Exec From Chevron Board—Exercising Authority It Doesn't Have, GOP Dissenters Say

The GOP minority on the Federal Trade Commission says Democrats are using a ridiculous legal theory to sideline directors, realizing firms will cave, sparing the agency from having to test the theory in court.
5 minute read

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