Alexa Shrake

After having practiced at McKool Smith and Haynes Boone, two lawyers announced this week they are starting a trial boutique focused on tenants’ rights and complex property and construction litigation.

A Dallas County jury recently returned a unanimous $140 million verdict against the National Collegiate Athletic Association after finding it was aware of the long-term consequences of repetitive head trauma and did not warn players.

McKool Smith’s Sam Baxter, who recently retired, spent the bulk of his 56-year career trying intellectual property cases in the Eastern District of Texas. But tracing his route there requires a trip back to high school.

The Supreme Court of North Dakota has directed a trial court to enter a narrow antisuit injunction against Greenpeace International Thursday morning, barring it from proceeding with its action against Energy Transfer in the Netherlands.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch visited the George W. Bush Presidential Center on Southern Methodist University’s campus Saturday afternoon for a talk and reading of his children’s book Heroes of 1776.

A Travis County jury heard two weeks of trial before unanimously finding a brother breached his fiduciary duty when he attempted to expel his sibling from a business they cofounded.

As a kid growing up in the Rio Grande Valley, King & Spalding partner Bruce Hurley remembers hearing his relatives, who were trial lawyers, tell stories about their careers.

Justice Rosa Lopez Theofanis originally thought she could be an English professor because she loved to read.

In this edition of Asked & Answered, FBFK’s Solomon Wisenberg talks about how he got involved in the Whitewater-Lewinsky investigation and what trends he is seeing in his white collar criminal defense practice. While the Texan has spent the majority of his career in Washington, D.C., he returned home to the Lone Star state a few years ago and joined FBFK in December.

A bench trial started today in a breach of contract case involving treasure recovered off the coast of the Bahamas. The parties are asking Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor to decide how to split the treasure.