Last week, shale giant Chesapeake Energy Corporation filed its Form 8-K with the SEC, revealing that it had received additional Department of Justice subpoenas “seeking information on [Chesapeake’s accounting methodology for the acquisition and classification […]
Johnson & Johnson has produced a Wi-Fi enabled One Touch Ping insulin pump system that allows users to send commands to the pump. This pump has been on the market for eight years, and as a result the system in the pump is not encrypted. This […]
Should community and regional banks operating outside of New York care about the proposed regulation? Yes. There are at least three reasons why. The bottom line is that the proposed regulation calls for tighter cybersecurity standards and may have long […]
The new overtime regulations announced in May, which among other things raised the salary for the white collar exemptions from $23,660 to $47,476, were set to go in effect on December 1, 2016. But on Wednesday, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of […]
Marcy Rothman spoke today at the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel Fall Meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. The topic was implicit bias in voir dire (jury selection). Judge Bennett is […]
On Thursday, September 22, 2016, Yahoo publicized a 2014 data breach “associated with at least 500 million user accounts.”[1] This may be the largest data breach ever, in terms of those affected.[2] Experts believe it could have a ripple effect […]
In Daugherty v. Convergent Outsourcing, Inc., the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a collection letter that is silent as to litigation, but which offers to “settle” a time-barred debt without acknowledging that such debt is judicially unenforceable […]
George Barber, Joseph Coleman, and Joseph Friedman were ranked in the area of Business Bankruptcy once again. Jason Binford was also recognized by Super Lawyers in the Business Bankruptcy rankings for the first time after being selected for Texas Rising […]
In June 2016, the Texas Supreme Court issued two opinions interpreting the applicability of Chapter 95 of the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code. While members of the Plaintiff's bar may be celebrating one of the Court's rulings, property owners […]
Noncompliance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations may not singularly establish a negligence per se claim, but such evidence may be relevant to proximate cause in a simple negligence action. In 2015, the Corpus Christi […]
Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC is pleased to announce that five attorneys have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2017 Best Lawyers® list by Woodward/White, Inc. Listed attorneys include Kenneth Biermacher, Lawrence Bowman, Joseph […]
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) gives rights of equal access to places of public accommodation. For people who are deaf or hard of hearing, Title III requires businesses to remove barriers to communication. Restaurants and other […]