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| Passman & Jones is pleased to accnount that Rebekah S. Brooker has been elected to membership in the Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation. Fellows of the Foundation are selected for their outstanding professional achievements and their demonstrated commitment to the improvement of the justice system throughout the state of Texas. |
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| Passman & Jones is pleased to announce that Rebekah S. Brooker has been named 2011 "Texas Rising Star" by Texas Monthly magazine. |
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| Passman & Jones is pleased to announce the addition of Lisa M. Prather. Lisa has passed the 2010 Texas Bar Examination and we are excited to add Lisa to our growing team. |
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| The Dallas Association of Young Lawyers has elected Associate Kyle B. Mandeville to its Leadership Class of 2010. |
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Passman & Jones is pleased to announce and congratulate Rebekah Steely Brooker as recipient of the President’s Award of Merit by the TYLA. |
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| Passman & Jones is pleased to announce that Christopher A. Robison, an associate, was elected as an associate to the Patrick E. Higginbotham American Inn of Court. |
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| Passman & Jones is pleased to announce the addition of Warren R. Westberg to the firm. Warren practices in the area of complex civil litigation, including Bankruptcy, Business Litigation, Intellectual Property/Technology, Commercial Law, Oil & Gas, Real Estate, Fiduciary Duties, Software Defects, Fraud/Misrepresentation, Deceptive Trade Practices and general Tort Liability. |
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Shannon Jones, Jr., Co-Founder of Passman & Jones passes away at age 82. Our hearts are heavy as we now lament the loss of our good friend and former shareholder Shannon Jones, Jr., who died on February 12, 2009, only weeks after the passing of his close friend and long time law partner, Sam Passman, with whom he founded our firm in 1952. |
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Sam Passman, Co-Founder of Passman & Jones passes away at age 96. We mourn the loss of our good friend and former shareholder of our firm, Sam Passman, who died on January 21, 2009. Sam's good counsel guided his clients (and our firm) through seven decades of change and growth in Dallas and he will be missed. |
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| Beware of Corporate Ccompliance Filing Scam. Some new entities formed in Texas are receiving unsolicited and unofficial notices about corporate compliance filing of corporate minutes and requesting payment of a filing fee. |
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| Passman & Jones is pleased to announce that Kyle B. Mandeville has passed the Texas Bar Examination. |
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On April 2, 2007, Raul H. Gonzalez, Director of Administration of Passman & Jones, spent one hour seated to the right of President George W. Bush for a small group meeting on the benefits of Health Savings Account plans and to share his thoughts about the implementation of an HSA plan at Passman & Jones and its impact on him personally. |
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| The Texas Supreme Court issued its opinion in Sheshunoff Managemen. Services, L.P. v. Johnson, which should make some covenants not to compete easier to enforce in employment situations. |
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This is a good case for the protection of corporate shareholders from contractual corporate debt and reaffirms our understanding of the statutory provisions in the Texas Business Corporation Act (Act), and the Texas Business Organizations Code (TBOC) which recodifies the Act. |
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| Under the Pension Protection Act of 2006, charitable donors over the age of 70 ½ may make contributions of up to $100,000 per year directly to a charity from their IRA without including the Qualified Charitable Distribution in their income. |
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