Gregory M. Gordon on Bankruptcy

Gregory M. Gordon is a partner in Jones Day, where he oversees the business restructuring and reorganization practice in the Dallas office.

6-6-2008Judge Holds Bankruptcy Code Trumps Pension Legislation

4-17-2008The §1146(a) Tax Exemption and Pre-confirmation Asset Sales

8-23-2007Second-lien Financing, the Next Wave of Bankruptcies and Intercreditor Agreements

6-21-2007The Zone of Insolvency: Directors, Creditors and Fiduciary Duties

5-24-2007Contract-Based Claims for Post-Petition Attorneys Fees

3-21-2007Cause of Action for a Deepening Insolvency

2-8-2007 A Loan or an Investment? Recharacterizing Debt as Equity

12-12-2006 Surprising Findings on Pace of Bankruptcy and Creditor Recovery

10-5-2006 When Bankruptcy Courts Can Refuse to Enforce Arbitration Agreements

8-17-2006 Pension Funding Legislation

7-24-2006 Sovereign Immunity and Bankruptcy

6-15-2006 Impact of the Bankruptcy Overhaul's Limits on Key Employee Retention

5-23-2006 Overseas Operations in Bankruptcy Proceedings

5-16-2006 U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Anna Nicole Smith Case

3-13-2006 Anna Nicole Smith: Bankruptcy vs. Probate Jurisdiction

2-15-2006 Substantive Consolidation: An Important Tool

2-10-2006 Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act

Bruce Anton on Criminal Law

Bruce Anton is a partner in Sorrels, Udashen & Anton in Dallas. He practices criminal and appellate law and is board certified in criminal law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

11-7-2006 Restrictions on Cross-Examination of Prosecution Witnesses

7-10-2006 Sentencing Departures in the Post-Booker Era

Gary A. Udashen on Criminal Law

Gary A. Udashen is a partner in Sorrels, Udashen & Anton in Dallas, where he practices criminal and appellate law. He is board certified in criminal law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

4-10-2008 Fixing the Problems of Eyewitness Identifications

11-1-2007 The Supreme Court's Dilemma in Addressing Lethal Injection

5-11-2006 Kansas v. Marsh and the Presumption of Death

5-11-2006 Georgia v. Randolph and Warrantless Searches

3-8-2006 Polygraph Exams

2-17-2006 Actual Innocence

Charles T. Frazier Jr. on Election Law

Charles T. Frazier Jr. of Dallas is a shareholder in and chairman of the appellate practice of Cowles & Thompson. He has represented clients in appellate courts in more than 100 cases, including the U.S. Supreme Court, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Texas Supreme Court and all 14 of Texas' intermediate appellate courts.

6-28-2006 U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Texas Redistricting

Thomas R. Ajamie on The Enron Trial

Thomas R. Ajamie is the managing partner of Ajamie LLP in Houston. He represents investors seeking to recover losses in stock and insurance fraud cases, as well as corporations and officers and directors who have been sued in securities matters or are under investigation by regulatory or governmental agencies.

8-31-2006 Developments Since Enron

4-18-2006 Enron: Defense Witnesses Begin

4-12-2006 The Enron Trial: Final Prosecution Witnesses

3-6-2006 The Enron Trial: Witness Testimony

2-7-2006 The Enron Trial: An Introduction

Brad M. LaMorgese on Family Law

Brad M. LaMorgese is an attorney with the Dallas office of McCurley, Orsinger, McCurley, Nelson & Downing, where he practices family and appellate law. He is board certified in family law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

8-13-2008 The Mythical Common-Law Marriage

5-23-2008 Giving Away Community Property

3-6-2008 Top 10 Tips for the Executive Divorce

11-20-2007 Virtual Visitation

10-2-2007 Alimony/Maintenance in Texas

7-12-2007 Calculating Child Support

7-6-2007 Dividing Employment Benefits

5-17-2007 International Child Abductions

3-27-2007 Understanding the Standard Possession Order

12-14-2006 Jurisdiction in Child Custody Disputes

10-31-2006 Jurisdictional Surprises in Family Law

8-1-2006 Double-Dipping on Child Support

Polly Rea O'Toole on Family Law

Polly Rea O'Toole is a founding partner in the family law firm Atkins & O'Toole in Dallas. O'Toole has practiced family law for more than 10 years. She is also on the board of directors of the Child and Family Guidance Center.

8-3-2006 How Courts Divide Community Property

4-20-2006 Characterizing Marital Property

2-28-2006 Prenuptial Agreements

2-6-2006 Grandparents' Visitation

Paul C. Watler on First Amendment

Paul C. Watler, a partner in Jackson Walker in Dallas, has represented newspapers, broadcasters and journalists for more than 20 years in First Amendment, libel and privacy actions.?He is a 1981 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, where he was a member of the Texas Law Review, and is board certified in civil trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. His e-mail address is pwatler@jw.com.

6-25-2008 The Perfect Pitch: The First Amendment

4-30-2008 Protections for Internet Speech

12-11-2007 Gag Orders and the Media

7-17-2007 Back to School With "Bong Hits 4 Jesus"

5-22-2007 5th Circuit Hands Newspaper a Victory

2-6-2007 Legal Issues Raised by Photos of a Soldier's Last Moments

1-4-2007 Suits Against the Clergy

10-16-2006 Journalists and Grand Jury Subpoenas

10-16-2006 Judges' Free Speech

Tom Alleman on Humor

Tom Alleman really is an attorney. A shareholder in the environmental and insurance industry practice groups at Winstead in Dallas, Alleman also is a regular participant in the Dallas Bar Association's "Bar None" comedy show and is a frequent contributor to ABC Satellite Radio's Hits and Favorites Network. In his spare time, he serves as president of the American Community College of Trial Lawyers and watches exercise videos on fast forward to get all the benefit of his workout in half the time.

6-13-2006 The Super Lawyers, Barry Bonds and Steroid Abuse

5-6-2006 The Super Lawyers Save Baseball

3-28-2006 News and Notes From Around the Bar

3-15-2006 Lawyer As Caped-Crusader: Part 3

2-24-2006 Lawyer As Caped-Crusader: Part 2

1-30-2006 Lawyer As Caped-Crusader

Ernest Martin on Insurance Law

Ernest Martin Jr. is a partner in and chairman of the insurance coverage practice group at Haynes and Boone in Dallas. He co-founded the Insurance Law Section of the State Bar of Texas and serves as an adjunct professor of insurance law at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.

6-18-2008A Plea for a Bright Line Rule: Insuring for Punitive Damages After Fairfield and Res-Care

4-4-2008Court's UPLC Ruling Creates Confusion

2-1-2008High Court Affirms the Trial Court in Frank's Casing

9-20-2007Lamar Homes

7-31-2007The Folly of Fortuity

6-26-2007Hurricane Katrina: Two Years Later

5-8-2007Fort Worth Court of Appeals Drops Declaratory Judgment Bombshell

4-3-2007The Duty to Cooperate

1-30-2007 Insurance Cases in the Texas Supreme Court Pipeline

11-21-2006 The Rise of the Fraud-in-the-Application Defense

9-28-2006 D&O Policies and Stock Options Backdating

8-31-2006 Policy Exclusions and Mold

8-29-2006 Protecting the Privilege

7-17-2006 Extrinsic Evidence and the Duty to Defend

6-22-2006 Handling Litigation Management Guidelines

4-21-2006 An Insured's Right to Choose Counsel

3-10-2006 Dallas and Houston Courts of Appeals Conflict on Issue Involving a Commercial General Liability Policy

3-10-2006 Lamar Homes v. Mid-Continent Casualty

1-25-2006 Frank's Casing Revisited

Steve Malin on Intellectual Property Law

Steve Malin is of counsel at Sidley Austin in Dallas, where he practices commercial and intellectual property litigation. He represents intellectual property rights owners seeking to maximize their portfolio value as well as corporations that have been sued in IP matters. His e-mail address is smalin@sidley.com.

9-25-2007How GCs Can Get a Handle on Attorneys' Fees in Patent Cases

9-18-2007Patent Reform Messes With Texas: Looking at the Venue Provisions in the Patent Overhaul Bill

7-26-2007Look Before Leaping When Filing?Infringement Suits

6-12-2007U.S. Patents and Foreign Activity

5-11-2007The Most Important Patent Decision in 50 Years

4-12-2007Using The Enablement Requirement To Invalidate Overly Broad Patent Claims

David H. Judson on Intellectual Property Law

David H. Judson is a Dallas solo with an intellectual property law practice. Admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office since 1981, he formerly served as assistant general counsel for intellectual property for Akamai Technologies Inc.

10-26-2006 The Advice-of-Counsel Defense

8-22-2006 Senate Targets Patent Litigation

6-21-2006 Patent Infringement: eBay Inc., et al. v. MercExchange LLC

5-1-2006 Claim Construction in Patent Law

2-20-2006 Blackberry Blackout

2-8-2006 Patent Law Changes

Michael P. Maslanka on Labor & Employment

Michael P. Maslanka is managing partner of the Dallas office of Ford & Harrison. He is board certified in labor and employment law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He writes the Texas Employment Law Letter and writes the monthly "Work Matters" column in In-House Texas, a publication of Texas Lawyer. His e-mail address is mmaslanka@fordharrison.com.

7-2-2008What to Expect in Labor Law After the Election

5-27-2008Workers Score Victories in Employment Cases at the USSC

3-27-2008Ruling Makes Arbitration Less Attractive as a form of ADR

1-10-2008Employment Law is Counterintuitive

12-13-2007Changes Loom for the NLRA

10-4-2007Baby Boomers and the FMLA

8-16-2007Advice for First-Time Corporate Litigants in Employment Cases

8-2-2007Employment Cases to Watch at the U.S. Supreme Court

5-29-2007The Clock's Ticking on Pay Discrimination Claims

5-4-2007Is the 5th Circuit Really Employer-Oriented?

2-20-2007U.S. Supreme Court to Address Cat's Paw Doctrine

1-25-2007Overturning an Arbitration Award Based on Allegations of Bias

11-14-2006Noncompetes After Shushunoff

11-2-2006Tips for Defending Depositions

10-10-2006Tips on Taking Plaintiffs' Depositions

6-22-2006U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Employer Retaliation

5-25-2006Responding Effectively to Ethical Challenges

5-5-2006ADR

3-17-2006Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblowers

3-2-2006 Money Cases at the U.S. and Texas Supreme Courts

2-22-2006 Lessons on 20 Years of Practice

1-25-2006 At-Will Employment

Randy Johnston on Legal Malpractice

Randy Johnston is a partner?in Johnston Tobey in Dallas.?He represents people in legal malpractice, stockbroker fraud, accounting malpractice and business litigation. He is board certified in civil trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

8-5-2008When a Plaintiff Sues a Defense Lawyer

3-20-2008Confidentiality Provisions in Settlements

3-20-2008Obstacles to Successfully Suing a Client's Former Divorce Lawyer

12-06-2007Legal Malpractice and Attorneys Fees

11-13-2007What Lawyers Need to Know About Legal-Malpractice Insurance

11-6-2007Arbitration Clauses in Fee Agreements May Torpedo Malpractice Insurance Coverage

9-11-2007Ghostwriting Pleadings for a Pro Se Litigant

8-6-2007Discovering Your Own Malpractice

7-24-2007Presumptions Differ When Former Client Seeks Disqualification vs. Bringing a Breach of Fiduciary Duty Suit

7-3-2007Former Clients and Conflict of Interest Waivers

6-14-2007Beyond the Grave: Legal Mal Claims Involving Wills

4-10-2007Contingent Fees: You're Fired

3-29-2007Contingent Fees: The Element of Risk

2-15-2007 The Basics of Contingent Fees

12-07-2006 Helping Someone with a Pro Se Case

10-26-2006 Aggregate Settlements

8-15-2006 Running Afoul of the Honesty Obligation

7-17-2006 The Legal Profession's Dirty Little Secret: Sex With Clients

5-9-2006 Conflicts of Interest: Adverse Interests

2-13-2006 Motion for Continuance As Exhibit No. 1 in Legal Malpractice Trial

Robert Tobey on Legal Malpractice

Robert L. Tobey is a shareholder in Dallas' Johnston Tobey, which handles litigation involving legal and accounting malpractice, professional liability, stockbroker fraud, insurance bad faith and business litigation. He is board certified in consumer and commercial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. After he graduated with a bachelor of science degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1977, he earned his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1980.

11-9-2006 The Dangers of Metadata

4-6-2006 Conflicts of Interest

Ralph C. "Red Dog" Jones on Personal Injury and Civil Trial

Ralph C. "Red Dog" Jones, a partner in Jones Geisler in Dallas, is board certified in personal-injury and civil trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

7-10-2007Five New Rulings on Personal Injury Cases

6-19-2007Paid vs. Incurred Health Care Expenses, Disclosure of Doctors and Superseded Pleadings

5-2-2007Snapback, Jurisdiction and the Collateral Source Rule

4-17-2007Recent Rulings from the Texas Supreme Court

11-30-2006 Texas Supreme Court Cases of Interest

9-3-2006 Insurance Coverage, Jury Waivers, Taxation, and the Made-Whole Doctrine

8-10-2006 What Trial Lawyers Need to Know About Taxes

7-19-2006 Supreme Court Weighs in on Sovereign Immunity and Contingent Fee Agreements

6-8-2006 Tort Reform by Federal Agency Pronouncement

4-18-2006 Jury selection after Cortez and Vasquez

4-11-2006 California vs. Texas on Whether Jury Trial Rights Can Be Waived, Plus Why Lawyers Should Get Involved In Politics

2-1-2006 Waiving Jury Trial Rights

David Clouston on Securities Law

David Clouston is a partner in Patton Boggs in Dallas, where he regularly represents clients in state and federal courts, and before the Texas State Securities Board, National Association of Securities Dealers Inc., the New York Stock Exchange, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

5-15-2007Privilege Waivers After the McNulty Memo

10-12-2006 SEC Guidance on Commission and Fee-Splitting Safe Harbor

8-8-2006 SEC To Provide ?404 Guidance

7-11-2006 Proposed Rules Governing Office and Director Compensation

7-13-2006 Court Strikes Down Hedge Fund Rules

4-4-2006 Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith v. Dabit: SLUSA Pre-emption

4-4-2006 Conducting an Internal Investigation

3-20-2006 Responding to an SEC Raid

2-3-2006 Hedge Fund Manager Rules

Ingrid Warren on Trusts & Estates

Ingrid Warren of the Law Office of Ingrid Warren in DeSoto helps people facing issues involving life and death. Her practice focuses on guardianship, wills, trusts and estates. In addition, she has practiced bankruptcy law and served as a financial consultant. Her e-mail address is Ingrid@iwarrenlaw.com.

5-8-2008 Maintaining the Foundation of a Blended Family

3-13-2008 Red Flags to Watch for During the Initial Client Interview

Mark S. Werbner on White-Collar Crime

Mark S. Werbner is a partner in Sayles | Werbner in Dallas. His practice focuses on complex litigation, including business torts and catastrophic personal-injury and wrongful-death cases.

6-27-2006 SDNY Judge Declares Thompson Memorandum Unconstitutional