Tag: News
Quarles & Brady Adds New Partners
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Quarles & Brady LLP announced that 12 of its associate attorneys have been promoted to partners in the firm’s Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, Phoenix, and Tampa offices.
13 Branscomb PC Lawyers Listed Among 2016 Best Lawyers in America
Thirteen Branscomb PC lawyers have been elected to the U.S. News’ Best Lawyers in America list for 2016.
Mitratech Partners With Huron Legal to Enhance Analytics and Benchmarking Platform
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“Leveraging the power of legal analytics drives tremendous value for legal departments seeking to improve their overall performance,” says Jason Parkman, Mitratech CEO.
How to Score a Contract from the Red Zone
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Charles Sartain, writing in Gray Reed & McGraw’s Energy and the Law blog, uses a football metaphor to describe how a negotiating party could fail to score an enforceable contract while near the end of the negotiation process.
Federal District Court Articulates Criteria for Electronic Contracts
NEWSIn a case involving “clickwrap” and “signwrap” agreements, the Eastern District of New York denied a motion to dismiss and compel arbitration filed by an in-flight wifi provider, according to Buckley Sandler LLP in its InfoBytes blog.
Robert Stracks Joins Quarles & Brady’s Business Law Practice Group
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Robert Stracks has joined the Quarles & Brady’s Chicago office as Of Counsel in its Business Law Practice Group.
New Legal Resource Available to Michigan’s Transgender Community
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The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund has brought its “Name Change Project” to Michigan. Dykema is joining TLDEF’s project to demonstrate its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Denny O’Shea Will Join Greenberg Traurig in Broward, Palm Beach
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Denny O’Shea, the incoming Fort Lauderdale Downtown Development Authority Chairman, will serve as chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Real Estate Development & Land Use Practice in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
Agiloft Wins PCMag Editors’ Choice Award for Contract Lifecycle Management
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Agiloft, Inc., a provider of agile business process software, announced that its Contract Lifecycle Management solution has won PCMag’s highly coveted Editors’ Choice Award, the publication’s highest rating.
Beck Redden Lawyers Recognized as 2015 Texas Super Lawyers
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The list of top Texas attorneys, a Thomson Reuters publication, is based on peer recognition and professional achievements.
Tips for Dispute Avoidance in the Current Oil Price Environment
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The conventional belief is that oil and gas disputes will rise in the latter part of 2015 and into 2016, triggered in some measure by banks’ next round of reserve-based redeterminations for oil and gas companies.
Texas Court of Appeals Rules on Permission Needed for Off-Lease Horizontal Drilling
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The Fourth Court of Appeals in Texas recently held that surface owners control the matrix of the underlying earth; thus, a surface owner can give permission to drill through the subsurface to an adjacent lease, reports Lauren N. Randle in The Energy Law blog published by Liskow & Lewis.
Attorneys From Austin-based George Brothers Kincaid & Horton Win National Recognition
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Five lawyers with the Austin-based business litigation firm George Brothers Kincaid & Horton LLP have earned selection to the 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, the nation’s oldest and one of the most prestigious guides to the legal industry.
Sayles Werbner Dallas Attorneys Named to 2015 Texas Super Lawyers Listing
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Four attorneys from Dallas’ Sayles Werbner are being honored among the state’s top attorneys in the 2015 Texas Super Lawyers listing, which recognizes legal leaders in various areas of the law.
Family Law Attorney Hunter Lewis Rejoins Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson
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T. Hunter Lewis has rejoined the family law boutique Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson as an associate in the Dallas office.
Latham & Watkins Advises Pericom Semiconductor in $400 Million Acquisition by Diodes
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Diodes Inc. and Pericom Semiconductor Corp. have entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger that provides for the acquisition of Pericom by Diodes.
Michael L. Fallarino of Farrell Fritz to Receive Long Island Business News’ CFO of the Year Award
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Farrell Fritz’s Director of Finance, Michael (Mike) L. Fallarino, will be a recipient of Long Island Business News’ “CFO of the Year” award.
Oracle Minimum License Requirements
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For many Oracle products, like Database, the license agreement or ordering documents contain minimum license requirements.
Hogan Lovells Adds Former UnitedHealth Litigation Chief to Litigation Practice
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Walsh joins Hogan Lovells from UnitedHealth Group, where he was Senior Deputy General Counsel and Chief of Litigation and Government Investigations.
Employment Agreement Breach: Failure to Assign Can’t be Fixed Because of Statute of Limitations
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A federal appellate court has denied Google’s breach of contract claim relating to assignment of the invention of an employee of another company, reports Dennis Crouch in the patent law blog Patentlyo.
