Haynes and Boone, LLP

About this office:

Haynes and Boone, LLP is one of the largest and fastest-growing law firms in the U.S. Our firm believes that the world of business belongs to companies keen to compete, quick to adapt, eager to listen and learn and resolved to continually challenge themselves. We measure ourselves by the same standards. Our teamwork culture, our willingness to change quickly to meet the demands of the marketplace and our drive to be the best have been the key factors behind our success. We have grown from a handful of lawyers in 1970 to more than 500 lawyers today, have added more than 35 practice specialties, have expanded to twelve offices worldwide and have become a national leader in the use of technology to deliver legal services. Our reputation in the business world has likewise grown.

We serve a diverse group of clients in a wide array of domestic and global business transactions and litigation matters. Our client base reflects virtually every business industry and includes more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, many major foreign companies and large financial institutions.

We have long served our clients' global business activities by building cross-border practice capabilities, strategically adding international legal expertise and establishing working relationships with leading law firms throughout the world. Haynes and Boone lawyers are fluent in more than 15 foreign languages. Our Mexico City office, opened in 1994, has grown to be one of the three largest in Mexico among U.S. law firms, and our Moscow office was opened in 2005. Our global reach has included more than 100 foreign countries where we assisted clients in cross-border matters ranging from acquisitions and financings to dispute resolution.

Antitrust, Appellate, Aviation, Business Litigation, Business Reorganization and Bankruptcy, Commercial Litigation, Clean Tech, Corporate Governance, Corporate/Securities, Emerging Company/Venture Capital, Employee Benefits/ERISA, Energy, Environmental, Finance, Franchise and Distribution, Government Contracts, Government Investigations, Health Care, Intellectual Property/Technology Investment Banking and Broker-Dealer, Investment Funds, Insurance Litigation, International, Labor and Employment, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Clients and Estate Planning, Private Equity, Real Estate/Projects, Regulatory, Securities Litigation, Tax, White Collar Criminal Defense.

Software Licenses: Permission vs. Forgiveness and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Gregory R. Samuel, Randall C. Brown, Mark A. Tidwell, Andrew S. Ehmke, Clark S. Stone, Nick Gikkas, Kenneth K. Bezozo, Arthur A. Howard, Rick A. Werner, Brian C. Daughney, October 8, 2009
In a case that may prove to be as serendipitous for struggling software companies as anything else, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit wrote another chapter in the law of unintended consequences with its ruling in ,Cincom Systems, Inc. v. Novelis Corp. (published September 25,...

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