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A fundamental rule in bankruptcy proceedings is that prepetition claims are not paid without a plan or separate order of the bankruptcy court.

In order to assert a professional negligence claim in Texas against an architect, professional engineer, registered landscape architect, or registered professional land surveyor, the claimant...

The Corporate Transparency Act ("CTA") directs the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") to establish and maintain a national registry of corporate beneficial ownership information ("BOI").

Larry Bowman and I recently wrote a 44-page white paper on "The Ins and Outs of Waivers of Subrogation." Larry presented our paper at the 34th Annual Texas Construction Law Conference...

Since its inception in March of this year, the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") has provided hundreds of billions of dollars in SBA-guaranteed loans to help American small businesses through the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the last two months, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled against the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) twice, most recently on September 8, 2020.

Arbitration is an increasingly popular forum for the resolution of construction disputes. It often provides a more predictable procedural process specially designed for the industry in light of construction-specific rules and mediation procedures enacted by alternative dispute resolution providers.

On March 29, 2020, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins issued an Amended Shelter-in-Place Order (the "Amended Order").

The advent of the digital era has not only popularized online transactions but has also led to the development of virtual currencies to expedite business transactions.

We all know that general unsecured creditors, like holders of trade debt, often receive little to no recovery on account of the debt they are owed when a customer files...

Attorneys should be on the lookout for negligent undertaking causes of action disguised or pled as negligent training or other similar negligence-related claims.

In 2022, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and the American Law Institute published the first substantive amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) since 2010 (the "2022 Amendments").

On June 27, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court issued an opinion in Werner Enterprises Inc. v. Blake, -- S.W.3d (Tex. 2025), 2024 WL 7043877, reversing the trial court's $90 million nuclear verdic.

As of press time, 11 statewide stay-at-home orders are in effect, with Louisiana being the first state with significant upstream, midstream, and downstream capabilities to be locked down.

The Texas Supreme Court, beginning in 2017, began issuing a number of decisions altering the analysis for the interpretation of oil-and-gas agreements

A Lender has two choices for funding a Main Street Loan. A Lender may fund a Main Street Loan and then seek to sell a participation interest in said Main Street Loan to the Main Street SPV.

Recognizing that disruptions caused by the COVID-19 national emergency are interfering with, and in some cases preventing, motor carrier employer and driver compliance with current drug and alcohol testing requirements.