Texas Ethics Opinion 665 says Texas lawyers have an ethical duty to avoid inadvertently disclosing confidential metadata, but not an ethical duty to disclose they received inadvertently-sent confidential metadata
Steak N Shake case holds that the Texas sexual harassment statute does not preempt a common-law assault claim if the “gravamen” of the claim is assault
Texas lawyers may not be billing as many hours on ordinary requests for production, if some proposed changes to the discovery rules are made.
Find out the key “sub-rules” that determine whether you can sue a non-Texas company in Texas for taking trade secrets from Texas
Find out the key issues that were argued in a packed courtroom in the “Houston College of Law” trademark litigation
Get the slides to our webcast on Southwestern Energy v. Berry-Helfand and what it means for lost profits damages in trade secrets cases and other cases
Can a readily ascertainable customer list be a trade secret under the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act? Some Texas courts are confused about this.
In Southwestern Energy the Texas Supreme Court addressed expert testimony on lost profits in an oil and gas trade secrets case.
The Texas Supreme Court held in the M-I case that the judge must apply a balancing test to decide whether corporate reps get to stay in the courtroom in a trade secrets case.
Do Texas employees really owe a “fiduciary” duty to their employers? Well, sort of.