The Texas Supreme Court recently agreed to hear oral arguments in a case closely watched by the business community, given that the Court is expected to provide guidance on how a company can protect its trade secrets that are at issue in an injunction […]
Director Tom Ciarlone will present at the Texas Lawyers' Energy Summit on Wednesday, December 2nd at the Magnolia Hotel in downtown Houston, Texas. Tom will be presenting on Hot Topics in Energy Litigation: Defusing Oil-and-Gas Class Actions (Before […]
This three-part series of blog posts focuses on a recent Fifth Court of Appeals decision overturning a $4.3 million verdict against JP Morgan Chase Bank arising from the robbery and murder of an armored car driver at a Chase branch in Dallas. This first […]
It’s no secret that hydraulic fracturing is squarely within the crosshairs of environmental crusaders and other activist groups across the nation. Be they tall tales of kitchen sinks transformed into miniature flamethrowers or fanciful claims that […]
When it comes to the enforceability of non-compete agreements in Texas, misconceptions and half-truths are abound. Whether I am having a conversation with a lawyer that dabbles part time in non-compete agreements or a friend calling and asking me to […]
Even more disconcerting, there is a Texas case that supports an argument that the "buy-out" option may actually be turned into a penalty that must be paid by the physician. A physician has a statutory right for an arbitrator to determine the reasonableness […]
In Chesapeake v. Hyder, the Texas Supreme Court addressed the proper calculation of a “cost-free” overriding royalty interest (“ORRI”). The court has now asked the Hyders to respond to Chesapeake’s motion for rehearing of the decision in the […]
Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC earned four different rankings in the 2016 "Best Law Firms" list published by U.S. News Media and Best Lawyers®. The Best Law Firms list is based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes the collection of client […]
We see this scenario all too often – invoices were marked “net 30 days” and, for the entire shale boom, they were always paid timely or at least within the next month. But now your customers are asking for net 60, 90, even 120 day schedules, which […]
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act—a bill that expands protections to companies that choose to share cybersecurity data with the government. A Wall Street Journal editorial described the bill’s concept: “ […]
Earlier this year, the charter for the Export Import Bank of the United States expired. American companies—including most notably Boeing, but also small businesses with export sales—use Ex-Im guarantees to reduce the cost of selling their […]
The "buy-out" price of the non-compete can be unilaterally set by the employer in the contract, and thus typically bear no real relationship to the employer's true economic loss of goodwill when the physician leaves. I have recently seen three times […]