Vanegas: Court Upholds Employee Bonuses for Performance

On 22 December 2009, in Texas Cases, by Peter Smythe

In Vane­gas v. Ame­ri­can Energy Ser­vi­ces, the Texas Supreme Court grap­pled with the issue of whether a com­pany could renege on a pro­mise to pay five per­cent of a com­pany sale to seven of its ori­gi­nal emplo­yees. The court ruled that it couldn’t. A com­pany named AES was for­med in the sum­mer of 1996 and […]

 

Camacho: Tx Supreme Court Tosses Out Expert and $14 Million Verdict

On 17 December 2009, in Texas Cases, by Peter Smythe

In Whirl­pool Corp. v. Camacho, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that Camachos’ expert wit­ness evi­dence was legally insuf­fi­cient to sup­port the jury’s ver­dict. The court rever­sed the jury’s $14 million ver­dict and ren­de­red judg­ment that the Camachos taking nothing. The Camachos bought a used elec­tric Whirl­pool Easy Clean clothes dryer and ins­ta­lled it in their […]

 

An In-​House and Outside Counsel Survey

On 10 December 2009, in Uncategorized, by Peter Smythe

The Tex Parte Blog is repor­ting on the results of the Lexis­Ne­xis State of the Legal Industry Sur­vey (a pdf of the sur­vey is avai­la­ble on the Tex Parte Blog). The sur­vey results say that 71 per­cent of in-​house legal coun­sel belie­ves that outside firms are doing too little to res­pond to the finan­cial pressures […]

 
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