Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann is pleased to announce it has been recognized in Texas Lawyer’s 2019 Verdict Hall of Fame for Mesa Petroleum Partners LP v. Baytech LLP. LPCH attorneys Mike Lynn, David Coale, Andres Correa and Patrick Disbennett represented Mesa Petroleum in a breach of contract case and obtained a verdict of $145,335,639.00 […]

Four seniors at the Judge Barefoot Sanders Law Magnet in Dallas have received scholarships from Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann. The students, Christopher Babineaux, Tony Peeler, Jr., Chloe Pinales and Leslie Fuentes have demonstrated outstanding leadership potential and an intent to pursue a career in the legal field. The Judge Barefoot Sanders Law Magnet was […]

LPHS partner Michael K. Hurst recently spoke on the “Moving the Needle on Gender Equity” as a member of a panel hosted by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession. The “Men in the Mix” project aims to better understand the obstacles men face to becoming better allies for women lawyers.

The city of San Antonio and Chick-fil-A recently ignited controversy after the city council voted to ban the company from its list of airport vendors, pointing to the company’s views on LGBTQ issues. The Texas attorney general has opened an investigation regarding the exclusion. Firm partner David Coale discussed the matter with Fox 4 reporter […]

LPHS partners David Coale and John Volney co-author the article, “When is an Issue Tried by Consent?” in the April edition of DBA Headnotes. The article presents two case examples that agree on the basic principle that an issue is not tried by consent just because evidence about that issue is admitted. In the Dallas Court […]

President Trump recently announced that he plans to issue an executive order to revoke birthright citizenship to children born in the United States to noncitizens. The firm’s David Coale appeared live on WFAA Ch. 8 and KDFW FOX 4 to explain the language of the 14th amendment. Coale says the president has the power to […]

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces sexual misconduct allegations from a Palo Alto University professor, who claims he groped her at a high school party in the 1980s. The allegations thwart a confirmation process that originally was seen as a done deal for Kavanaugh. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the […]

Technological advances in the energy industry have led to the protection of proprietary business information. Midstream businesses are seeing areas, such as analytics, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and operations data, where protecting trade secrets are vital to the company. In a bylined article in Midstream Business magazine, the firm’s Jonathan Childers offers his perspective […]

Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott lost his chance to avoid the NFL’s six-game suspension after the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York denied his motion for an emergency injunction, which means Elliott’s suspension is back on. His lawyers argued to the court that missing the six games will have irreparable harm. […]

In an unusually high-profile hearing in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Edith Jones and former U.S. Solicitor Kenneth Starr “openly traded multiple jabs at each other” according to an article in the Texas Lawbook. The writ of mandamus hearing in the appeal filed by Johnson & Johnson following two verdicts against the company […]