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The National Law Journal has named Vinson & Elkins to its 2023 “Appellate Hot List.”

On June 23, 2023, the Texas Supreme Court issued a decision embracing the rule that an investor or parent company can engage in customary investment practices without becoming liable for torts committed by a portfolio company.

On August 30, 2022, the Tyler Court of Appeals ruled for Vinson & Elkins’ clients, The Dallas Weekly, a Black-owned community newspaper, and its reporter, Steven Monacelli, in a defamation case.

Since 2018, Vinson & Elkins has defended Texas Eastern Transmission, LP, a natural gas pipeline subsidiary of Enbridge Inc., against a complaint filed at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) by an offshore oil and natural gas producer. At each stage of the proceedings, Vinson & Elkins’ attorneys and the Enbridge in-house counsel secured victory on every claim raised by the complainant. Most recently, on July 15, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a unanimous per curiam judgment upholding the Commission’s denial of the complaint.

Vinson & Elkins announced today that its Litigation and Regulatory departments collectively achieved three Band 1 rankings in Chambers USA 2022: Nationwide Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation); Texas Environment; and, Texas Real Estate: Land Use/Zoning. With nine new individual rankings, the firm’s Litigation and Regulatory rankings make up 83 of the firm’s total 199 rankings.