McGinnis Lochridge is pleased to announce that the firm has elected four attorneys to Partner – Mary H. Allen, Marcus V. Eason, Zachariah T. Evans, and Lindsey Roskopf. Allen and Evans practice in the Austin office while Eason and Roskopf are based… Read more
McGinnis Lochridge is pleased to welcome Daniel C. Clemons as Of Counsel in the firm’s Corporate and Tax Practice Group in Austin. He brings a remarkable mix of financial and legal experience to his new role, having previously served in legal roles as outside counsel, in-house counsel and… Read more
McGinnis Lochridge is pleased to welcome Traci M. Clements as a Partner in Dallas. She joins the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Group where she will represent clients in a wide range of general employment matters, with a specific focus on employee benefits and compliance issues related to… Read more
Austin-based businessman José B. Sena, and the company he founded, SP Global Inc., successfully defeated a preliminary injunction motion brought by an Israeli company and one its founders relating to the use of the Skinny Pasta trademark. “We’re very pleased,” said Sena. “The court’s ruling supports what we have been… Read more
McGinnis Lochridge Selected to 2021 Edition of “Best Law Firms” by Best Lawyers (November 5, 2020) McGinnis Lochridge was recognized in 22 different practice areas by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers’ joint ranking of “Best Law Firms,” recognizing the work of the firm’s attorneys in Austin and Houston.… Read more
Employer sponsored public charities (“ESPCs”) are a valuable employee recruiting and retention tool as well as a way for founders and senior management of an employer to include their employees in their charitable giving plan on a tax advantaged basis. An ESPC is a type of 501(c)(3) public charity that an… Read more
The Best Lawyers in America© has named McGinnis Lochridge Partner William (Bill) H. Daniel a 2021 ‘Lawyer of the Year’ in Financial Services Regulation Law. Bill Daniel practices in the Austin office. Only one lawyer in each practice area in a selected location is named as “Lawyer of the Year” – reinforcing… Read more
Some electric cooperatives have sponsored charitable giving programs that are designed to provide financial donations to worthwhile programs and charities. Such programs are typically funded by rounding-up cooperative members’ monthly electric bills to the nearest whole dollar and transferring this additional money to a special fund operated by the cooperative. Members can… Read more
In recent weeks the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued new guidance applicable to corporate anti-corruption compliance programs. Unfortunately, this guidance manifests a continued use by the government of ambiguous and broad language, and serves mostly to emphasize yet again the broad discretion claimed… Read more
On July 16, 2020, the European Court of Justice struck down the popular EU-U.S. Privacy Shield tool, a cross-border data transfer mechanism, due to a determination that the United States fails to adequately uphold EU privacy laws. The court found that the Privacy Shield does not provide sufficient protections… Read more
On July 7, 2020, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that Seattle-based e-commerce retailer Amazon would pay a $134,523 penalty for alleged violations of multiple OFAC sanctions programs and the failure to timely report hundreds of transactions pursuant to an OFAC general license. Between 2011 and 2018,… Read more
The United Kingdom on July 6, 2020, designated 49 individuals and organizations under a new human rights sanctions regime established on the same day. The UK’s Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 target human rights violations “carried out by or on behalf of a State.” This is the first… Read more