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Exploring Procedural Justice | Judge Steve Leben | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Focus Groups as a Trial-Preparation Tool | Elizabeth Larrick | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Tips for Persuasive Legal Writing | Luther Munford | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Winning Cases on Legal Issues Before and During Trial | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Why Judges Should Take the Legal Accountability Project Pledge | Judge Doug Nazarian & Aliza Shatzman | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Tackling Bullying in the Legal Profession | Scott Stolley | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
How Lawyers Should Approach Implementing AI into Their Practices | Tim Armstrong | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Emerging Ethical Issues For Lawyers Using AI | Derek Bauman | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Inside the Fourth Court of Appeals’ Clerk’s Office | Michael Cruz | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Business Courts and Other Highlights of the 88th Texas Legislature | Jerry Bullard | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
The Portia Project Podcast Crossover Episode | M.C. Sungaila | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
On June 20, 2025, Texas passed SB 2337, a first-of-its-kind regulation of proxy advisors such as ISS and Glass Lewis. SB 2337 requires proxy advisors to, among other things, disclose when their recommendations are based, in...more
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On June 20, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 2337 (“SB 2337”), a novel regulation that will require significant disclosure obligations for proxy advisors, such as ISS and Glass Lewis, for their voting...more
Texas recently cemented its position as a cryptocurrency and business-friendly jurisdiction with the enactment of SB 21. Signed on June 20, 2025, SB 21 establishes the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, a state-managed fund...more
What happens when a court reads your contract literally for one issue but decides what 'makes sense' for another? A geophysicist just found out. In early April 2025, the Amarillo Court of Appeals reversed in part and...more
On June 1, 2025, the Texas legislature passed HB 40, and Governor Greg Abbott signed it on June 21, 2025. The new law helps further define the jurisdiction of Texas’s Business Courts, originally established in 2023. This is...more
In a significant move for environmental policy and energy innovation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to approve Texas’ application to administer its own Class VI underground injection well...more
On June 20, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 2337 ("SB 2337") to impose first-of-its-kind regulation and significant disclosure obligations on proxy advisors, such as ISS and Glass Lewis. SB 2337 aims to...more
Texas emerged from its 89th legislative session with a sweeping set of laws aimed at cementing the state’s leadership in advanced nuclear energy. Through the passage of HB 14, SB 1535 and SB 1061, lawmakers demonstrated a...more
Recently, the Texas House of Representatives introduced HB 5007, along with its companion bill SB 2117. The legislation—“Relating to the establishment of the Texas Committee on Foreign Investment to review certain...more
Pursuant to Section 45.052 of the Texas Education Code, school district and charter school bonds (including refunding bonds) are eligible to be guaranteed by the corpus and income of the Permanent School Fund (PSF). If...more
Private equity (PE) firms are increasingly investing in physician practices and the broader healthcare industry. While these arrangements can provide capital and operational expertise, they may also inadvertently violate...more
TXSE (pronounced TEX-see) announced on April 4, 2025 that its Form 1 registration is now public, putting it one step closer to Y'all Street. The announcement touted its proprietary “matching engine" that it believes will make...more
On March 13, 2025, the Texas Legislature introduced HB 5007, which, if enacted, could establish the first US state regime tasked with screening foreign investments on national security grounds....more
On 31 January 2025, the Texas Stock Exchange LLC (TXSE) filed a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate as a fully electronic, national securities exchange....more
A recent New York Times article titled “Delaware Law Has Entered the Culture War“ has highlighted a surprising trend: companies like Tesla, Dropbox, and Meta are reconsidering their incorporation in Delaware, long considered...more
On February 12, 2025, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced plans to launch NYSE Texas, a fully electronic equities exchange based in Dallas, Texas, through the reincorporation and renaming of NYSE Chicago. This...more
Recently, a Texas federal court denied the defendants' motion to dismiss in a lawsuit featuring allegations that an employer's 401(k) plan, which allegedly relied on ESG principles when making investments, violated ERISA. ...more
In recent years, the California Independent System Operator (“CAISO”) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (“ERCOT”) have experienced rapid growth and deployment of utility-scale and distributed electric storage...more
On September 21, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) and U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Inc. (USAP), in the Southern District of Texas, alleging the two companies “[e]xecuted a...more
On February 14, 2023, the Texas Court of Appeals reversed awards totaling $63 million entered against Credit Suisse after a jury trial and bench trial for Claymore Holdings, LLC, the assignee of a lender-investor. The case...more