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 […]
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 […]
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 […]












