8/11/2026 2:15:43 PM Your Preservation Duties May Predate Your Litigation Hold: Delaware Chancery Court Sanctions Auto-Deleted Signal Chats By Andy Hicks A recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision confirms that discovery risk often begins long before a lawsuit is filed—and that modern...
7/30/2026 2:15:57 PM Delaware Ruling Highlights Texas’s Growing Role in Corporate Litigation By Robert Rankin A recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision involving Tesla adds to a broader trend Texas companies should be watching closely: Texas is...
7/23/2026 10:27:47 PM Texas Court Clarifies Books-and-Records Rights By Robert Rankin Marc Tabolsky A new Texas appellate decision emphasizes that a limited partnership cannot defeat a partner’s statutory inspection rights merely by...
7/23/2026 4:59:21 PM AI Oversight and the New Texas Business Judgment Rule By Robert Rankin As companies increasingly deploy artificial intelligence in hiring, pricing, compliance, customer service, underwriting, and core...
7/22/2026 3:03:58 PM Texas Business Court Steps into Trade Secret Litigation By Oliwia Lukacz In 2025, the Texas Business Court was granted expanded jurisdiction over trade secret, intellectual property, and Texas Uniform Trade...
6/11/2026 7:28:19 PM The Texas Business Courts Tackle ChatGPT and Work Product Protection in a Case of First Impression By Jennifer Cordell Andy Hicks On June 3, 2026, Judge Grant Dorfman of the Texas Business Court (Eleventh Division) issued a minute entry in Tate Group Automotive, LLC...
5/5/2026 2:30:36 PM Conditional Assignment or Drill‑to‑Earn: How Assignment Language Shapes Farmout Litigation By Andy Hicks Before a farmout dispute gets to questions of earned acreage, designation requirements, or payout calculations, there is a threshold...
4/16/2026 4:19:03 PM Recent DOJ Litigation Highlights Antitrust Concerns for Potential Merger Partners By Brandon Winchester The Department of Justice recently brought an action under the Clayton Act to enjoin the merger of two giants in the packaged ice...
3/25/2026 3:05:22 PM Defining the Arbitrator’s Authority: The Texas Business Court Analyzes Arbitrability in BNSF Railway v. Level 3 Communications By Andy Hicks In BNSF Railway Co. v. Level 3 Communications, LLC, No. 25‑BC01A‑0025, 2026 WL 509825 (Tex. Bus. Ct. Feb. 24, 2026), the Texas Business...
3/24/2026 5:09:54 PM Particularized Facts and Damages at the Pleading Stage: Delaware Court of Chancery Provides Guidance By Andy Hicks In Caerus Group, LLC v. Chemicar Europe NV, the Delaware Court of Chancery (Vice Chancellor David) granted motions to dismiss in...
3/13/2026 2:32:50 PM The Supreme Court Declines to Answer AI’s Authorship Question—For Now By Jennifer Cordell On March 2, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter, ending—at least for the moment—the most prominent...
3/2/2026 5:56:56 PM The Delaware Chancery Court Remains Popular for Business Disputes By Oliwia Lukacz The Delaware Chancery Court, with over 200 years of precedent on its books, is still a top choice despite competition from other states....