The Role of Magistrate Judges in the Northern District of Texas

February 13, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Discovery, Irma C. Ramirez, Jeff Kaplan, Jeffrey L. Cureton, Magistrate Judge, Paul D. Stickney, Practice Tips, Renee H. Toliver 

The Dallas Bar Association (DBA) Judiciary Committee sponsored a panel discussion with the Magistrate Judges in the Northern District of Texas on February 2, 2012. The panel included Hon. Jeff Kaplan, Hon. Irma Ramirez, Hon. Paul Stickney, Hon. Renee Toliver, and Hon. Jeff Cureton. The Magistrate Judges discussed how they are typically assigned to cases [...]

Judge Furgeson Named Dean of University of North Texas Dallas College of Law

January 22, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Judge, Royal Furgeson 
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Senior Judge Royal Furgeson, Jr., of the Northern District of Texas, has been named the founding Dean of the University of North Texas Dallas College of Law, starting in April 2013. The new law school is scheduled to open in downtown Dallas in August 2014. Plans to open the law school had been stalled due [...]

Chief Judge Rader and the State of Patent Litigation

September 28, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Discovery, Jurisdiction and Venue, Patent, Summary Judgment 

Following a lively rendition of “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (likely as penance for favoring the Redskins in the game against the Cowboys on Monday night), Chief Judge Randall Rader presented a talk on the state of patent litigation yesterday (September 27, 2011) at the Eastern District of Texas/Federal Circuit Bench Bar Conference that [...]

Judge Lynn Sits by Designation on Ninth Circuit and Considers Jurisdiction Based on Online Activities

August 18, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Barbara M. G. Lynn, Jurisdiction and Venue 

Judge Barbara M. Lynn recently sat by designation on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. On August 8, 2011, the appellate panel of Judge Lynn, along with Kim McLane Wardlaw and Judge William A. Fletcher, issued a pair of decisions clarifying the standard to sue a non-resident company in California based on its online activities. [...]

Northern District Judges Speak About Patent Pilot Program

July 26, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Barbara M. G. Lynn, David C. Godbey, Ed Kinkeade, Local Patent Rules, Patent, Practice Tips 

On July 26, 2011, Judges Lynn, Godbey and Kinkeade participated in a panel discussion sponsored by the Dallas Bar Association Intellectual Property Section to discuss implementation of the Patent Pilot Program in the Northern District of Texas. Judge Lynn began the discussion by reporting that Chief Judge Fitzwater just issued Special Order No. 3-287 concerning [...]

Judge Kaplan Speaks at Advanced Patent Litigation CLE

July 17, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Damages, Experts, Jeff Kaplan, Local Patent Rules, Practice Tips, Summary Judgment 

Hon. Jeff Kaplan, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, participated in a judges panel at the State Bar of Texas 7th Annual Advanced Patent Litigation course in San Antonio on July 14, 2011. Judge Kaplan addressed several subjects of interest: Patent Pilot Program. Judge Kaplan touched on how the judges [...]

Request for Comments and Upcoming Judges Panel on New Patent Pilot Program

July 12, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Barbara M. G. Lynn, David C. Godbey, Ed Kinkeade, Local Patent Rules, Patent, Practice Tips 

The Northern District of Texas has been selected to participate in the Patent Pilot Program. The Patent Pilot Program is a 10-year program to enhance district court judges’ expertise in patent cases. To be eligible to participate, courts had to be among the 15 district courts in which the largest number of patent cases were [...]

Hands-On Electronic Filing Training Offered by the Northern District of Texas

July 10, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Practice Tips, Rules of Procedure 

The Northern District of Texas will be offering hands-on electronic filing training on July 27, 2011 as well as on August 24, 2011 at the Earle Cabell Federal Building, 1100 Commerce Street, Room 124 in Dallas, Texas from 9:00 a.m. until 1:15 p.m. This class is for attorneys as well as their support staff. Participants [...]

Panel of N.D. Tex. Judges to Provide Practice Tips for Federal Cases

June 20, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: District Judge, Jane Boyle, Jeff Kaplan, Judge, Magistrate Judge, Practice Tips, Sam A. Lindsey, Sidney A. Fitzwater 

On Thursday, June 23, 2011, from noon to 1:30 pm, a panel of Northern District of Texas federal judges will discuss practice tips and pitfalls to avoid when handling federal cases.  This free CLE event will be held at the Belo Mansion (2101 Ross Avenue) and is open to all attorneys. The panel of ND [...]

Attorney Status Report for Bar Admission to Northern District of Texas

June 20, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Practice Tips 

The website for the Northern District of Texas has recently added a new feature – the ability to quickly obtain a report on an attorney’s bar admission status with the Northern District of Texas.  The report includes the date of admission (if any) and indicates whether the attorney is a registered user of the NDTX [...]

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