Experienced Attorney Brian Johnston Joins Caldwell Cassady & Curry in Dallas
Trial and appellate lawyer brings years of intellectual property expertise
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DALLAS, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Dallas-based intellectual property and business litigation firm Caldwell Cassady & Curry has added accomplished attorney Brian D. Johnston as a principal. He most recently was a partner in the intellectual property department at Baker Botts in Dallas.
Mr. Johnston joins Caldwell Cassady & Curry with more than a decade of experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of high-profile intellectual property disputes. His track record includes extensive work in patent, trade secret, and copyright lawsuits in federal district courts across the country and on appeal in the Federal Circuit.
Racial equity is on the docket in state capitols this year.
It’s been eight months since Minneapolis police killed George Floyd. Millions marched to declare Black lives matter and demand changes to police accountability, tactics and biases.
This anti-racist movement, built over decades, has seeped into state capitols nationwide and promises to bring significant changes to housing, health care access and policing policy in the first full legislative session since that pivotal summer.
“It’s the right time. It’s way past the right time,” said Washington state Sen. Manka Dhingra, a Democrat. She introduced three police accountability bills this session, including one that would require officers to intervene if they see wrongdoing by peers.
Grand Rapids Business Journal
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Varnum LLP added associate attorneys Justin A. Allen, Tuo (Paul) Wang, William J. Whalen and Yezi (Amy) Yan, to its Grand Rapids office. They all served as summer associates at the firm.
Allen has experience in litigation and corporate law matters. Prior to joining Varnum, he served as an intern for the U.S. Magistrate Judge Phillip J. Green of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. Allen received his Juris Doctor from Vanderbilt University Law School in 2020.
While he was in law school, he worked in the criminal practice clinic and represented indigent defendants in criminal court. Allen also worked at a state government lobbying firm in Lansing prior to going to law school. Allen received his Bachelor of Arts from Michigan State University.
Acting FCC Chairman Jessica Rosenworcel could save net neutrality
News Highlights: Acting FCC Chairman Jessica Rosenworcel could save net neutrality
President Joe Biden has appointed Jessica Rosenworcel as Acting Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, making her the agency’s temporary chief and a frontrunner as a full-time replacement. Here’s what you need to know about the new FCC header.
On Thursday, President Biden named Rosenworcel as his choice for an acting FCC chairman. Taking over the role of former Chairman Ajit Pai now means a Democratic-leaning Commissioner in charge, after four years of Republican leadership.
Rosenworcel’s appointment is only temporary for now, but she has a decent chance of becoming the permanent president for Biden’s entire tenure, given the democratic control of the Senate.
How financing SPAC takeovers became Wall Street’s new favorite trade CNBC 1/25/2021 Leslie Picker
PIPEs, increasingly deployed in conjunction with red hot SPACs, are mechanisms for companies to raise capital from a select group of investors outside the market.
Bankers from several firms have told CNBC they ve received an uptick in inbound interest recently from investors looking for future PIPE opportunities.
In 2020, PIPEs generated $12.4 billion in supplemental capital to help fund 46 SPAC mergers, according to data pulled by Morgan Stanley.
The heightened prevalence of this product is raising concerns about the potential lack of understanding among the broader cohort of SPAC investors about how these investments work.