While helping their company emerge from bankruptcy proceedings, American Airlines Inc.’s General Counsel Gary Kennedy and his legal department have faced a U.S. Department of Justice challenge to American’s plan to merge with US Airways, in addition to multibillion-dollar litigation.

The state’s civil case seeking to remove Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg from office after her conviction for driving while intoxicated is set for trial on Oct. 21. But it might not immediately answer whether she will lose her job.

Many assistant U.S. attorneys who were furloughed during the government shutdown finally returned to work on Oct. 17 after Congress voted to fund the government through mid-January 2014.

Nearly a month after announcing they would move to Sidley Austin’s Dallas office, a group of eight partners in Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ Big D office changed their work address on Oct. 15. A total of nine partners, four counsel and 10 associates from Weil’s Dallas office have moved to Sidley in Dallas, and another … Read More »

Andrew Fastow, former chief financial officer of Enron Corp. who was sentenced to six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to two criminal charges, spoke at a networking breakfast Thursday morning in Houston for the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business Alumni Association.