Influx of Institutional Investors Real estate investors have flourished in the high-demand, single-family housing market. In 2021, 28% of homes sold in Texas were bought by corporations, companies, or limited liability companies (collectively, “institutional investors”), which is a 4.6% [...]
There is a reason why a buyer of substantially all of a seller’s assets may want to pursue a sale via the buyer filing bankruptcy, through a bankruptcy auction. By obtaining a court order approving a sale via a [...]
Dallas, TX (August 1, 2022) – Casey Erick and Bill Siegel successfully obtained a take-nothing jury verdict after a two-day trial where our clients, a husband, and wife, were sued by their nanny for allegedly failing to pay her [...]
Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 683 requires that "[e]very order granting an injunction . . . shall set forth the reasons for its issuance; shall be specific in terms; shall describe in reasonable detail and not by reference to [...]
Discussion of: Highland Capital Management LP v. Dondero (In re Highland Capital Management LP), 21-03003, 2021 Bankr. LEXIS 3314 (Bankr. N.D. Tex. Dec. 3, 2021) Bankruptcy courts are in disagreement whether to enforce arbitration provisions as opposed to trying the [...]
All Texas lawyers who are sworn-in by a judge after passing the Texas bar exam agree to “zealously represent their clients.” The degree and scope of that zealousness is not unlimited, however, and sometimes attorneys can get into trouble [...]
In New Falls Corp. v. LaHaye (In re LaHaye), No. 19-30795 (5th Cir. Nov. 12, 2021), the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals prevented a secured lender from pursuing individual guarantors on a claim that had been partially released in [...]
In the case of a judgment for recovery of an interest in real or personal property, the trial judge must determine the amount of security required to suspend enforcement of the judgment during appeal. Texas Appellate Rule 24.2(a)(2) requires [...]
Mike Northrup frequently publishes to a blog called "Reverse and Render." We have shared his post from February here. Parties (and their counsel) to a court of appeals’ disposition of an appeal sometimes worry that if the court [...]
In re LTL Mgmt. LLC, No. 21-30589 (MBK) [Docket No. 1572] (Bankr. D.N.J. 2021) Other than being a dance, what is the Texas Two-Step, in terms of corporate mergers? The “Texas Two-Step” has proved to be a lifeline allowing [...]
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