The Texas Supreme Court agreed to hear a ConocoPhillips oil and gas lease dispute that the mineral rights owner claim, should the energy company prevail, would upend thousands of deals. Conoco wants the high court to reverse a the Thirteenth District Court of Appeals opinion in favor of the leaseholder,…

Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig is accusing its insurer of refusing to pay for a $565,000 legal malpractice settlement that the Philadelphia personal injury firm reached with a former client. Feldman Shepherd recently filed suit against Allied World Insurance Co., alleging that the company left the firm to defend itself against the professional liability claim…

As Democratic primary elections draw to a close, the New York City Bar Association has released ratings for eight judicial candidates running for the Civil Court bench in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. To determine ratings, the City Bar’s 50-member Judiciary Committee evaluates the candidates through a thorough vetting process that…

Veteran technology lawyer John Yates was named Morris, Manning & Martin’s co-chairman Monday, and he shared plans for combining nontraditional methods of earning new business with the age-old practice of lawyers taking active leadership roles in the community. The firm announced Yates, founder and head of the firm’s corporate technology practice,…

Fox News’ affirmative defenses are the legal equivalent of hurling “spaghetti against the wall,” lawyers for voting company Smartmatic claim in the latest round of defamation litigation. Fox has alleged that it is shielded from the $2.7 billion litigation over false comments aired in the wake of the 2020 election…

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday affirmed a Manhattan district judge’s ruling in favor of Charter Communications in a lawsuit related to advertising produced by Charter after one of its competitors, Windstream Holdings, filed for bankruptcy. Chief Circuit Judge Debra Ann…