• August 29, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissible

    Grandeur Restored Last week, 100 years after the first dedication, people gathered to rededicate the newly restored Harris County 1910 Courthouse. With the completion of the restoration pr

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  • December 8, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Cox Smith Matthews has added two new associates: Erin Fonté in Austin in the financial institutions practice area and Marissa Helm in San Ant

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  • August 12, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Lateral Hiring Heats Up in Chicago Legal Market

    The cloud of doom and gloom has dissipated over Chicago's legal market. With the economy picking up and law firms needing fresh bodies to replace the thousands laid off last year, 2010 has witnesse

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  • June 2, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    STONE ENERGY TO ACQUIRE BOIS D'ARC ENERGY Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell represents Bois d'Arc Energy Inc. of Houston in the company's pending acquisition

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  • February 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Great Expectations

    On October 3, 2008, Congress gave the U.S. Department of the Treasury authority to spend $700 billion to stabilize the economy. Treasury, in turn, create

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  • April 18, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Beverly Cahill Rice has joined Curran Tomko Tarski in Dallas as a partner in the bankruptcy and corporate restructuring practice. . . . Richard London

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  • September 16, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

    What Global Warming?: BigLaw Summer Forecast for 2010 Is Dark and Chilly

    The party is over, and fewer people are invited, anyway.That's the blunt message for recent summer associates at BigTex firms and 2010 wannabe summer associates. Seven

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  • November 1, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Firm extends repayment schedule after departures

    Six years ago, Portland, Oregon-based Bullivant Houser Bailey had 236 lawyers and aspirations to expand beyond the Pacific Northwest. But after merger talks with LeClairRyan collapsed and a slew of

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  • April 18, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Audit finds Venable's TARP bills lack detail

    Bills submitted by the Venable law firm to the federal government's Troubled Asset Relief Program do not contain sufficient detail to assess the "reasonableness" of almost $677,000 paid t

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  • June 23, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    5th Circuit OKs Bankruptcy Class Actions, but Suit Fails

    Although a Texas bankruptcy court had the authority to certify a class action against Wells Fargo Bank, it stumbled in doing so, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 5th U.S. Circuit Cour

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