Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
M. Keith Branyon (partner, Jackson Walker LLP) has published his article entitled Jurisdiction and Venue for Will and Trust Disputes, The Advocate, Fall 2009, at 61. An excerpt from the article is below: Jurisdiction and Venue in will and trust...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Source: Lexology, November 10, 2009. Fraud claims from market meltdown test First Amendment defenses Jackson Walker LLP "It seems that the First Amendment has long been the province of the press as proxy for the public in protecting the marketplace of ideas."
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Source: Lexology, September 28, 2009. Texas - Beware electronic discovery nightmares Jackson Walker LLP "In the wake of Enron, the fall of Arthur Andersen, and the Zubulake cases, we are all well aware of the duty to preserve electronic evidence just as we would hard copy documents."
Nigel Melville Direct (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
This weekend was USA Rugby's Annual Congress Meeting in Dallas, a busy weekend which started for me on Friday afternoon with a USA Rugby Board Meeting. Saturday's Congress started at 0830 at the offices of Jackson Walker on Main Street, Dallas, our host for the weekend being USA Rugby's Vice Chairman, Bob Latham (Thanks Bob, a great host). The problem with meeting Congress just once a year is that...
IPKat—IP news and fun for everyone (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Every so often the IPKat receives a piece of email which, he suspects , was not primarily addressed to him. One such item is a circular email received from Gaurav Goel , a Registered Patent Agent with the firm of Jackson Walker LLP, Austin, Texas. The circular reads as follows: "PLEASE WRITE TO YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES! [The IPKat wishes he had some. Fictional felines sadly are unrepresented...
FrontBurner (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Shannon Zmud, an associate at Jackson Walker, had occasion to use the shield law when a third-party subpoena was sent to her client, a Dallas Morning News reporter. The reporter was being asked to testify at a civil injunction hearing this morning. A group of residents at a Pleasant Grove apartment complex currently without air [...]
The Raiser's Razor (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
Announcing the Dallas Business Journal 40 Under Forty Congrats to the Dallas Business Journal 40 Under Forty! If you are interested in meeting "the best and the brightest business leaders under forty," who are listed below, the DBJ is convening an event for them hosted by the Tower Club Dallas, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Thursday, June 18. http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/event/6386?sid=f70df161039a3c93638f3b6979c52848...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
DALLAS, TX (MARKET WIRE) The North Dallas Bank & Trust Co. (OTCBB: NODB) Board of Directors appointed Michael P. Haggerty, a partner in the Dallas office of Jackson Walker, to the Board.
Blawgletter (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
Blawgletter ran into free speech expert Paul Watler today. He's a partner at Jackson Walker LLP in Dallas. We asked after the health of the first amendment. He said the struggle never ends. A little later Paul sent me a...
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