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About this office: Founded in 1890, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. has lawyers in 32 offices and 15 countries around the world. With one of the strongest integrated global platforms and our longstanding one-firm philosophy, Squire Sanders provides legal counsel worldwide. From its office in Houston, Squire Sanders serves regional, national and international corporations headquartered or operating in Texas, the Southwest United States and worldwide. As part of the firm's leading international energy practice, the Houston office's services encompass a wide range of activities related to the energy business, especially litigation, corporate transactions and environmental compliance. Its lawyers handle not only general legal services and business transactions for oil and gas producers, field services companies, utilities, pipelines, marketers and distributors, but also commercial, energy and environmental litigation for Texas-based companies and other clients of the firm with matters pending in Texas and elsewhere. Specific Practice & Industry Groups Details: Statement of Practice Summary: Administrative Law, Admiralty & Maritime Law, Agricultural Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Appellate Practice, Aviation & Aerospace, Banking Law, Bankruptcy & Restructuring, Business Law, Chemicals, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Construction and Engineering Law, Contracts, Corporate Law, Criminal Law, Debtor & Creditor, E-Commerce, Education Law, Election, Campaign & Political, Eminent Domain, Employee Benefits, Energy, Entertainment & Sports, Environmental Law, Financial Institutions & Services, Government, Government Contracts, Health Care and Hospitals, Immigration, Indians & Native Populations, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International Dispute Resolution, International Law, International Trade, Internet Law, Investments, Labor & Employment, Life Sciences, Litigation, Manufacturing, Media Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Natural Resources, Occupational Safety & Health, Private Equity, Products Liability, Professional Liability, Project Finance, Public Finance, Real Estate, Securities, Taxation, Technology & Science, Toxic Torts, Transportation, Trusts & Estates, Wills & Probate, White Collar Crime, Workers Compensation, Utilities and Zoning, Planning & Land Use. Documents by Lawyers at this office Key Appellate Decision Expands the Potential for Greenhouse Gas Nuisance ClaimsAllen A. Kacenjar, Dale E. Stephenson, Christopher D. Thomas, Karen A. Winters, September 28, 2009 On September 21, 2009 the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a key ruling allowing climate change federal common law nuisance claims against five large utilities to proceed. That decision, State of Connecticut v. American Electric Power Company Inc., overturned a lower court ruling blocking the... Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. v. United States, No. 07-1601 (2009)Allen A. Kacenjar, Dale E. Stephenson, Christopher D. Thomas, Karen A. Winters, June 11, 2009 In a near-unanimous decision on May 4, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the latest in a series of decisions restructuring how courts should interpret and apply the core liability provisions of the federal Superfund act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act... "Never Events": Payor-Provider Contracting ImplicationsMark S. Armstrong, Mary Amos Augsburger, Scott A. Edelstein, David W. Grauer, Douglas A. Grimm, Kristin J. Harlow, John M. Kirsner, Kelly A. Leahy, Robert D. Nauman, January 30, 2009 Recently, public and private health care payors have been restricting reimbursements around "never events" - serious, preventable, adverse events that take place when a patient is under the supervision of a health care provider and result in death, loss of a body part, disability or... (For Biographical Data on Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio; Houston, Texas; Miami, Tallahassee, Tampa and West Palm Beach, Florida; Los Angeles, Palo Alto and San Francisco, California; New York, New York; Phoenix, Arizona; Washington DC; Tysons Corner, Virginia; Caracas, Venezuela; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; São Paulo, Brazil; Bratislava, Slovak Republic; Brussels, Belgium; Budapest, Hungary; Frankfurt, Germany; Kyiv, Ukraine; London, England; Moscow, Russian Federation; Prague, Czech Republic; Warsaw, Poland; Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai, China; and Tokyo, Japan Personnel, see Professional Biographies at those Points Respectively)
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