“I’m the luckiest man in the world,” says Larry Macon, a partner in Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, who nearly completed the Boston Marathon.

“She has accepted responsibility. She has taken the harshest punishment anybody has ever had for this type of offense, and has walked into that jail voluntarily,” says David Sheppard, Lehmberg’s lawyer.

Two special prosecutors, both former Dallas County assistant district attorneys, will have to decide whether to seek the death penalty in the murders of the Kaufman County district attorney, his wife and one of his assistant prosecutors.

When Ted Stevenson started to question prospective jurors in a patent-infringement suit, he wanted those who are cell-phone savvy. Partly as a result of his move to seat text-savvy jurors, Stevenson’s client, Dallas-based Summit 6 LLC, won a $15 million verdict.

An attorney has sued the Dallas firm where she works, alleging that the firm’s former “closed door” policy which prohibited males and females from being alone together, created a segregated workplace that materially harmed women attorneys. Amy Gibson, a partner in Dallas’ Gibson Wiley, represents the plaintiff.