Laura Lorek

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A Tarrant County, Texas, jury awarded $31.2 million to the widow of an Arlington firefighter who died at a Cancun resort in 2021, finding the hotel's ownership and management companies negligent in his death. Elijah Snow, 35, was found dead with his body stuck in a small window at a neighboring property after a night of heavy drinking allegedly encouraged by the Royalton Chic resort's bartenders, according to the lawsuit filed by his widow, Jamie Snow, in 2022.

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After finishing a stressful trial in 2012, Dallas litigator Paige Montgomery, a partner at Sidley Austin, looked around and realized that all she did was work and parent. So she decided to teach herself quilting—and hasn't stopped since, creating more than 100 quilts that have traveled from hospital chemotherapy chairs to newly built homes in Costa Rica's impoverished neighborhoods.

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Lawyers for participants and spectators injured in a crowd stampede at a cheerleading competition in Dallas have sued Varsity Spirit and facility management, alleging inadequate security. In their court filing, attorneys claim that failures led to parents and children being trampled, suffering injuries like broken bones, concussions, and brain bleeds during a panic at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center after reports of gunshots.

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By day, Tom Walsh argues complex commercial cases as a partner at Winston & Strawn. By night, he might be broadcasting a high school football game or playing King Arthur in Camelot—and he says all three roles make him better at the others. Walsh has spent 27 years as a radio play-by-play announcer for Jesuit College Preparatory School football, and has been involved in community theater for more than three years, often alongside his daughter, Kate.

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Who Got The Work J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.