Andrews Kurth LLP

Andrews Kurth LLP is a national law firm with approximately 415 attorneys. Founded in 1902 in Houston, Texas, the firm is one of the oldest and largest law firms in Texas. The firm represents a wide variety of local, national and international concerns from its offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, The Woodlands, Austin, London and Beijing. Many of the attorneys of Andrews Kurth LLP have national and international reputations as leaders in their respective practice areas. Proud of the firm's tradition, Andrews Kurth LLP is strongly committed to providing quality legal services with individual attention and personal concern.

A New Kind of Cybersquatting Facebook, Twitter and Online Social Media Sites
Nicholas F. Ducoff, Michele Schwartz, June 26, 2009
A company's online presence and online brand identity, as traditionally conveyed through its website, is extremely valuable. Historically, a website was its sole mode of online communication with customers and as a matter of course protecting its domain names was (and remains) of paramount...

Ups and Downs for Legacy CMBS: TALF Expands, but S&P Signals Downgrades
Peter K. McKee, Charles T. Marshall, Patrick C. Sargent, Peter Bogdanow, June 23, 2009
Recent developments presage dramatic impacts for CMBS market participants. First, the good news: with its May 19 announcement that the Term Asset-Backed Securities Lending Facility (TALF) would be expanded to include pre-2009 commercial mortgage-backed securities (Legacy CMBS), the Federal Reserve...

Family and Medical Leave, Military Family Leave, and Updates to Regulations
Bennee B. Jones, June 23, 2009
On November 17, 2008, the Department of Labor (DOL) published its final rule implementing amendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), signed into law by President Bush in January 2008, which provide new military family leave entitlements and update the regulations under the 15-year-old...