Each year, Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters publication, rates outstanding young lawyers from more than 70 practice areas for inclusion on the Rising Stars list. The attorneys selected are considered to have attained a high degree of peer recognition […]
By now, it is no secret that the energy industry has been ravaged. Every street corner with a gas station displays a reminder of sagging oil prices. And if $30 per barrel oil was not bad enough, energy companies have another woe to add to the list— […]
On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that production payments, like overriding royalty payments, cannot survive the termination of their respective oil and gas leases. In doing so, the Supreme Court stamped out a potentially “backwards” line […]
In 2013, in the Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Glenn and JoLynn Bragg decision, the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals, for the first time in Texas history, ruled that the regulation of groundwater violated a property owner's rights under the Texas Constitution […]
Physicians struggle to make money in the current health care environment. Taking care of patients just does not pay the bills like it used to anymore—and provides a lousy business model. Employed physicians make a salary with limited bonus opportunities […]
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is the newest entity in a long line of governmental and corporate interests to voice concern over cybersecurity measures taken by banks and other financial institutions. The FDIC recently published its […]
An opinion delivered by Judge Harmon this week, in Dewan v. M-I, L.L.C. (2016 Westlaw 695717, Feb. 22, 2016), provides clarity in this murky area, much-needed particularly in the oil industry. Dewan holds that “mud men” or “mud engineers” are […]
AJ Johnson discusses the Dewan decision in her post on the Energy Law Today blog.aj
In issuing the order, the court inserted itself in the debate between national security and security in one’s own private, personal information. But the court didn’t rely on some post-9/11 counterterrorism statute for its authority, but instead on […]
Many retailers, restaurants, and other places of public accommodation are familiar with their obligations to provide disabled patrons equal access to their brick-and-mortar places of business. A lesser known fact is that "places of business" can also […]
On January 29, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") announced proposed, controversial changes to the pay data currently required to be submitted by large employers (defined as employers with more than 100 employees) and federal […]
In Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, the Supreme Court recently decided a previous split between the Federal Circuit Courts. Specifically, the Court considered the issue whether a case is moot and beyond the judicial power of Article III of the Constitution […]