On Friday, January 27th, Chris Pappas presented a course at the Annual Texas Bar CLE Alternative Dispute Resolution Seminar in Austin, Texas with Courtenay L. Bass of the Gilbert Mediation Group and Trey Bergman of the Bergman ADR Group. The experts […]
In December of 2015, federal Judge Robert L. Pitman declined to dismiss Teladoc’s antitrust suit, holding that the TMB was not immune (as it had argued) from such claims. The decision pointed to the February 2015 Supreme Court decision, North Carolina […]
Directors Karin Zaner and Richard Hathaway of Kane Russell Coleman & Logan have successfully defended a physician client in a contentious jury trial in which the plaintiff alleged breach of contract, fraud, fraudulent inducement, and tortious interference […]
Director Chip Morris and Associate Demetri Economou have recently been published in Recent Developments in Business and Corporate Litigation, 2016 Edition - Intellectual Property Law. The attorneys collaboratively wrote about intellectual […]
The rule issued by the Texas Medical Board requiring physicians to conduct a face-to-face or in-person visit with a patient in order to establish a defined physician-patient relationship, was not slated to go into effect until June 3, 2015. With the […]
Telemedicine will no doubt make an impact on the way health care is delivered in Texas, as well as in the rest of the country. Teladoc, a Dallas-based provider of telehealth services, given its continued conflicts with the Texas Medical Board dating […]
Contractors and subcontractors vying for federal government contracts were relieved of complying with a majority of the requirements of Executive Order 13673, the "Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces" rule, thanks to a nationwide preliminary injunction issued […]
Houstonia compiles its annual Top Lawyers list based on a peer survey of other Houston-area attorneys. This year, the magazine selected Andrea Johnson for her work in Labor and Employment law, Bruce Morris for Intellectual Property Rights, Angela Offerman […]
In my little corner of the law, overtime has been a central focus—in individual and class action lawsuits and, for over two years, in predicting and then ciphering the new regulations of the Department of Labor (“DOL”). The new rules would have […]
I have written previously about the ongoing debate surrounding the causal role of hydrofracturing—”fracing” for short, as the industry spells it, without a “k”—in what critics have dubbed “man-made” seismic activity. The hot-button […]
After pulling off a victory more surprising than Truman’s, Donald Trump will have the opportunity over the next four years to–among other things–change the landscape of employment law in the United States. With Republicans now controlling the […]
On October 20, 2016, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) (collectively the “Agencies”), who jointly enforce the antitrust laws, alerted human resource (“H.R.”) professionals that they might violate […]