From Texas Lawyer Less than a month after San Antonio lawyer Mikal Watts was acquitted of criminal charges related to BP oil spill litigation, a group of Vietnamese-American fisherman living in the Gulf Coast has filed a fresh complaint against Watts, his firm and others, seeking millions of dollars in penalties for civil barratry. Texas’ barratry provisions are aimed at curtailing lawyer
From the Central Penn Business Journal A former chief counsel for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has rejoined his old law firm to work on environmental and energy issues in its Harrisburg and Pittsburgh offices. Post & Schell today announced the return of Terry R. Bossert, who was a principal and chairman of the firm’s environmental regulation and litigation practice group
U.S. Offshore Drilling Changes Drastically after Sept. 12, 2016 – Part 1 In July an agency under the executive branch of the U.S. government delivered what might be a killshot for a portion of the leaseholders and operators working to extract oil and natural gas from the U.S. outer continental shelf (OCS). It looks innocuous enough. A memo entitled “Requiring Additional
From Texas Lawyer Out-of-state firms continue to grow the fastest in Texas, even as nearly half of the firms with the most lawyers in Texas had fewer lawyers in the Lone Star State in 2015 than in 2014. Another 40 percent of the firms with the most lawyers in Texas added lawyers during 2015, according to head count numbers on
Kinder Morgan has closed $85 billion in acquisitions during DeVeau’s tenure as general counsel From Texas Lawyer When Houston-based Kinder Morgan Inc. was trying to acquire Hiland Partners in 2015, David R. DeVeau, the company’s vice president and general counsel, had to bone up on an area of law that previously had been unfamiliar to him. “I had to dabble
DALLAS, July 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — More than 30 business entities and individuals, including Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Foundation, are suing Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) based on claims that the company structured a series of contracts in order to receive excessive fees and other charges after the 2009 sale of its Barnett Shale midstream assets. The lawsuit alleges that Chesapeake’s $588 million sale of assets to New York hedge
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