Halliburton Company (ticker: HAL) announced earlier in the week that its chief financial officer Mark McCollum left the company in order to take the post …
Today President Trump announced 26 additional members of the White House Counsel’s Office who are serving under White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn II, according to the White House press briefing.
Legislators in Denver have proposed a bill that would require a local government that interferes with oil and gas operations in Colorado to compensate oil and gas …
From The American Lawyer
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft’s energy and commodities group is breaking up, with lawyers leaving for Allen & Overy and Haynes and Boone, part of a process that will see the Wall Street firm close a Houston …
From Texas Lawyer
When wealthy people ask jurors to settle their battles, their lawyers run the risk of running headlong into popular sentiment against the “one percent.”
Those were the circumstances last month at a trial that pitted T. Boone …
Diana Liebmann, partner, Haynes and Boone, San Antonio, was named in Texas Lawyer’s 2016 list of top women in energy law.
“We are proud to profile the honorees of our 2016 Top Women in Energy awards. The following women …
From American Lawyer
Squire Patton Boggs announced Monday that Cleveland-based partner Frederick Nance will be the global firm’s next managing partner for U.S. operations, beginning Jan. 1. He will also become the first African-American partner to sit on the firm’s …
From Corporate Counsel
The announced retirement of ExxonMobil’s general counsel, Jack Balagia, sheds light on a practice that is common at law firms but less known at corporate legal departments: mandatory retirement policies.
Balagia will retire Nov. 1, shortly after …
The fallout between Russia and Ukraine continues as Ukraine’s state-owned oil and gas company Naftogaz files for US$2.6 billion in damages over its lost assets in Crimea. Naftogaz and its subsidiaries filed …
From the Albany Times Union
ExxonMobil asks Fort Worth federal court to block New York inquiry
Facing pressure from state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to reveal whether multi-trillion dollar oil reserves could be at risk under climate change regulations, energy …
The European Union approved a fast-track ratification of the Paris climate change agreement yesterday, less than a year after it was signed in Paris, upending a Donald Trump promise …
From the Pocono Record
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission said it has accepted the state Supreme Court’s ruling that struck down a number of provisions to the oil and gas law.
The high court ruled last week unconstitutional the use …
From Law.com
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Friday sued the University of Denver, alleging its law school underpaid at least eight female law professors compared with their male colleagues.
The agency in August 2015 issued a finding that the …
The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), which would allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts, became law today by …
From Texas Lawyer
The crash of oil prices beginning in late 2014 has led to over 90 exploration and production companies in the United States and Canada filing for bankruptcy over the last 21 months, companies with combined debt obligations …
From Law.com
On Friday, President Obama vetoed a bill that would have cleared the way for a 9/11 tort litigation filed in 2002 – a lawsuit that accuses Saudi Arabia and its charities of helping al Qaida. Some senators were …
From the American Lawyer
Two of Canada’s largest provincial law firms announced their intention to merge on Wednesday. The union, the latest in a series of combinations between firms up north, will create one of the largest full-service firms in …
On Sept. 16, a federal appeals court ordered a halt to construction of a second portion of the …
From Law.com
WASHINGTON — In a speech in Wisconsin in March, Hillary Clinton said something that even Donald Trump would agree with: “Whoever America elects this fall will help determine the future of the court for decades to come.”
She …
The House on Friday passed legislation that allows families of 9/11 victims to sue …
In July an agency under the executive branch of the U.S. government delivered what might be a killshot for a portion of the leaseholders and operators working to extract oil and natural gas …
From Texas Lawyer
Less than a month after San Antonio lawyer Mikal Watts was acquitted of criminal charges related to BP oil spill litigation, a group of Vietnamese-American fisherman living in the Gulf Coast has filed a fresh complaint against …
From the Central Penn Business Journal
A former chief counsel for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has rejoined his old law firm to work on environmental and energy issues in its Harrisburg and Pittsburgh offices.
Post & Schell today …
In July an agency under the executive branch of the U.S. government delivered what might be a killshot for a portion of the leaseholders and operators working to …
From Texas Lawyer
Out-of-state firms continue to grow the fastest in Texas, even as nearly half of the firms with the most lawyers in Texas had fewer lawyers in the Lone Star State in 2015 than in 2014.
Another 40 …
From Texas Lawyer
When Houston-based Kinder Morgan Inc. was trying to acquire Hiland Partners in 2015, David R. DeVeau, the company’s vice president and general counsel, …
DALLAS, July 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — More than 30 business entities and individuals, including Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Foundation, are suing Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) based on claims that the company structured a series of contracts in order to …
