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Dallas Principal Steve Wolens was featured in a documentary that discusses the Electric Reliability Council of Texas launching the competitive retail electric market ...

McKool Smith is recognized in the 2017 edition of Chambers Global for having a leading intellectual property litigation practice in the United States. The publication ...

Houston principal Hugh Ray provided commentary to The Street in an article about how “fast fashion” retailers have largely been immune to the challenges crippling ...

McKool Smith Principal Sam Baxter was featured in a national broadcast of Sunday Today on NBC in a segment titled “Lawsuit Town, USA,” which focused on Marshall, Texas ...

McKool Smith principal Robin Cohen was named “Litigator of the Week” by The Am Law Litigation Daily for  securing a decisive victory for Verizon Communications Inc ...

McKool Smith was recently awarded Managing IP North America’s “Plaintiff IP Firm of the Year,” and “Patent Contentious Firm (South).”  Dallas Principal Ted ...

In a March 2, 2017 decision, McKool Smith secured a decisive victory for its clients Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Financial Services LLC and GTE Corporation ...

Silicon Valley principal Courtland Reichman commented on the legal showdown in which Waymo accused Uber of stealing its designs for driverless vehicles. Waymo’s ...

McKool Smith is pleased to announce that 16 attorneys from the firm's Austin, Dallas, and Houston offices have been selected for inclusion in the Super Lawyers 2017 ...

Robin Cohen, head of the firm’s insurance recovery practice, was recently featured in an Insurance Business report titled “Need Advice on Diversity? Take It From the ...

Dallas principal Lew LeClair has been appointed to Law360’s 2017 Legal Ethics editorial advisory board. Lew, along with eight other prominent attorneys, will ...

McKool Smith Chairman and co-founder Mike McKool along with firm principals Douglas Cawley, Sam Baxter, and William LaFuze have been selected for inclusion ...

Mike McKool was honored with Benchmark Litigation’s prestigious “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the 2017 Benchmark Litigation U.S. awards reception in New York ...

McKool Smith has been named an “Insurance Practice Group of the Year” by Law360. The firm was selected as a result of its success and courtroom achievements in a number of ...

Dallas principal Frank Vecella discussed a number of best practices for in-house counsel to effectively manage their outside legal teams in a Law360 report titled “How ...

McKool Smith served as lead counsel to Givaudan Fragrances Corporation in securing a victory for corporate policyholders with far reaching implications in protecting a ...

Last week, it was announced that American International Group (AIG), the biggest U.S. insurer by market value, is paying Warren Buffet-led Berkshire Hathaway ...

Previous comments on anti-bribery enforcement endorsed by Jay Clayton, chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, have ...

New York principal Gayle Klein appeared on the cover of the 2016 edition of Lawdragon, which highlights the Top 500 lawyers in the country, including Mike McKool, Sam Baxter

McKool Smith's victory on behalf of Warren Pumps In the Matter of Viking Pump Inc. and Warren Pumps LLC Insurance Appeals, topped Law360’s listing of the “Biggest ...

McKool Smith principal Robin Cohen has been recognized as an “Insurance MVP” by Law360. The publication’s MVP series honors an esteemed group of attorneys who have ...

McKool Smith has received numerous accolades in the 2017 "Best Law Firms" rankings recently released by U.S. News - Best Lawyers. The firm received 26 “Tier 1” ...

Judge Jan Jurden of the Delaware Superior Court granted summary judgment in favor of McKool Smith's client, retirement services provider TIAA-CREF, finding that a civil ...

An Iowa federal judge granted summary judgment to McKool Smith's client, window and door manufacturer Pella Corporation, ruling that  Liberty Mutual Insurance must cover ...

Benchmark Litigation, the definitive guide to America's leading litigation firms and attorneys, has ranked McKool Smith Tier 1 in intellectual property and insurance ...

The study classifies PAEs into two categories: Portfolio PAEs and Litigation PAEs. Portfolio PAEs are strongly capitalized, purchase patents outright, and negotiate ...

To better understand how PAE behavior compares with the behavior of other firms that assert patents, the FTC conducted a case study focused on litigation and licensing ...

The study “recognizes that infringement litigation plays an important role in protecting patent rights, and that a robust judicial system promotes respect for the ...

The study provides empirical evidence confirming that only a very limited subset of PAEs (i.e. certain Litigation PAEs) engage in what has been deemed by some observers and ...

The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment that Electric Power’s claims are invalid under Section 101 for being directed to patent ...

The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of GPNE’s post-trial motions following the jury’s verdict of non-infringement.  The patents-at-issue are ...

The district court stayed the entire infringement litigation—involving a total of five asserted patents—in light of the pending inter partes review of the three ...

The patent-at-issue related to multi-layer, thermoplastic stretch wrap films.  The independent claims of the patent included an element of “five identifiable inner ...

This case returned to the Federal Circuit from the Supreme Court following the Supreme Court’s decision rejecting the Seagate test for enhanced damages under Section 284 ...

The patent-at-issue relates to spinal surgery involving implanting an artificial implant between two adjacent vertebrae from a patient’s side.  The PTAB, in an IPR ...

This case involved an appeal of an ex parte reexamination of a patent that expired during the reexamination proceedings.  Here, after the examiner issued a final rejection ...

Vapor Point sued NanoVapor to add two of Vaper Point’s employees, who had previously worked at NanoVapor, as inventors on two of NanoVapor’s patents. NanoVapor ...

This case involved an appeal of an inter parte review decision in which the Board invalidated certain claims of a patent, because it found that the missing limitation in the ...

In an order granting the petition for rehearing en banc, the Federal Circuit vacated its previous panel decision in In re: Aqua Products, Inc., 823 F.3d 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2016 ...