Wake Up Call: Texas Lawyers, Firms Struggle in Storm’s Wake

In today’s column, although Covid-19 ravaged the U.S. economy in 2020, more Big Law firms keep posting huge profit gains; Covid-19 kept law firms and the DOJ busy last year, a report says; former Willkie co-chair Gordon Caplan avoided disbarment, despite his felony conviction in the college-admissions scandal; a biopharma startup snagged a Pfizer lawyer who worked on the giant’s Covid-19 vaccine project.

• Leading off, Texas law firms and lawyers are struggling with outages of power, water, heat, and internet after winter storms hit the state. (Texas Lawyer) Meanwhile, a law school in Texas is getting criticized for ...