4/13/20 - Insights
The coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the healthcare, travel, and hospitality industries has been severe.
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4/10/20 - Insights
The current crisis is already spawning tort suits seeking damages for illness or death allegedly caused by negligent or reckless exposure. Former DOJ trial counsel Adam Dinnell has successfully used genetic typing, a form of “fingerprinting” that differentiates between thousands of different genetic types of a particular pathogen, as evidence in similar cases involving Legionnaire’s Disease.
4/3/20 - Insights
As the COVID-19 crisis and its economic fallout intensify, contractual parties have increasingly invoked force majeure provisions to excuse performance of contracts. This article offers an update on emerging global trends in force majeure and the evolving considerations businesses should apply in evaluating force majeure provisions found in existing as well as new contracts.
3/26/20 - Insights
Is “risk of injury” from a data breach sufficient grounds for a lawsuit? Varant Yegparian and Benjamin Cohen shared their expertise with Law360.
3/26/20 - News
The coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the healthcare, travel, and hospitality industries has been severe.
3/12/20 - Insights
Companies—especially construction companies—often negotiate contracts that contain liquidated damages clauses. That way, both sides believe they have a fixed damage number that they can depend on without having to litigate actual damages.
3/10/20 - News
Hicks Johnson PLLC is proud to announce that three of its lawyers have been selected as “Texas Rising Stars” by Texas Monthly magazine….
3/4/20 - Insights
Senior partner Logan Johnson has extensive experience with cases involving force majeure, including a recent matter where he recovered $190 million for a…
2/28/20 - News
A settlement between the bankruptcy estate of Reagor Dykes Auto Group and Vista Bank was approved in federal bankruptcy court on February 26,…
2/24/20 - News
As court-appointed special litigation counsel in the Reagor-Dykes bankruptcy case, Hicks Johnson lawyers Marc Tabolsky and Andy Hicks are tasked with untangling a…
2/17/20 - News
Adam Dinnell will be speaking at the Federal Bar Association Rising Professionals Symposium (March 20-21, 2020) on the use of genomic evidence in…
1/24/20 - News
Update: Summary judgment was upheld by the First Court of Appeals in Houston, while the Texas State Supreme Court declined to review. The…
1/16/20 - News
After an Illinois coal mine experienced a mine fire due to the spontaneous combustion of coal, the mine operator withheld years’ worth of…
1/7/20 - News
Houston, TX, January 7, 2020—Bees360, a tech startup that leverages artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and drone technology to provide residential property damage adjusting…
5/20/19 - News
In a decision that bodes ill for Matra Petroleum, a Houston court has restrained the company and its financial partners from engaging in…
5/1/19 - Insights
In passing HB2730, the Texas House has narrowed the scope of the Texas Citizen’s Participation Act — Texas’ Anti-SLAPP, or Strategic Lawsuits Against…
4/26/19 - Insights
Partner Dan Hinde, a former Harris County District Court Judge, offers this solution to ease the backlog of cases in trial limbo due…
4/24/19 - News
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit delivered a sweeping victory for Hicks Johnson client Southwestern Energy, affirming its defeat of…
3/7/19 - News
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) expressly provide for the discovery of electronic documents and other “electronically stored information” or ESI. Despite…
3/6/19 - News
Hicks Johnson secured a take-nothing judgment in favor of its client, SWN Production Company, LLC (a subsidiary of Southwestern Energy Company) after a…
2/15/19 - News
After a two-week trial in which partner Logan Johnson led the Hicks Johnson team representing Devon Energy Production Company, a Houston jury delivered…
12/21/18 - News
The firm represents one of three people who have accused Manuel La Rosa-Lopez, a former priest, of sexual abuse. La Rosa-Lopez, who has…
12/3/18 - News
In another victory for the firm’s client First Street Hospital LP, the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas upheld a…
11/22/18 - News
While the Federal Rules governing the production of documents were drafted with paper in mind, today’s “documents” consist almost exclusively of electronic information….