In a case where International Paper Co. and Waste Management allege that Harris County’s use of contingent fee attorneys to sue them in an environmental clean-up case violates the U.S. Constitution, the 1st Court rejected the defendants’ argument, blessed the contingent-fee contract and dismissed the appeal, in one of the most comprehensive Texas decisions on … Read More »

Hindsight is 20/20. When a lawsuit is done, Alan Bush does an after-action report to look for lessons learned. He’s always found at least one thing he’ll do differently next time.

Many standard subsidiary guarantees in secured financing transactions may be illegal under rules recently issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

In this electronic age, ubiquitous email can be the smoking gun that enforcement agencies rely on to demonstrate corporate wrongdoing. But the savvy and unscrupulous look for new ways to erase their email tracks and avoid detection. For compliance officers, that means having a clear understanding of how employees may be misusing technology to dodge … Read More »

The battle between Abigail Noel Fisher and the University of Texas at Austin continues with opposing views about where the case should go next. In the past week, both sides have filed replies in the 5th Circuit, responding to each other’s arguments about where the U.S. Supreme Court intended for the potentially precedent-setting affirmative action … Read More »