Jerry L. Beane

Senior Partner

Jerry Beane’s practice focuses on antitrust and commercial litigation. He has more than 43 years of experience defending federal and state antitrust cases and governmental investigations in banking, construction, energy, explosives, food, health care, home furnishings, insurance, logistics and transportation industries. He also defends patent, trademark, securities, contract and breach of fiduciary duty cases. Jerry’s antitrust representation includes work with mergers in the energy, food, health care, transportation, manufacturing and telecommunications industries. He counsels clients on distribution, HSR, joint venture, pricing, price-determination, trade association and compliance program issues.

Jerry also represents liability insurers in coverage, bad faith, Insurance Code violations, claims handling and failure to settle lawsuits, and defends claims including environmental and other coverage issues under CGL policies, reinsurance agreement disputes, specialty coverage issues such as catastrophe injury policy and sporting and entertainment event coverage.

Jerry practices in many jurisdictions and has defended cases in Texas, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee and Wyoming. He is a member of the firm's Policy Committee.

Representative Experience

Publications

• Higher HSR Threshold Requirements Effective February 27, 2012 (January 27, 2012)
• Warning to Executives: Reinvestment of Dividends in your 401(k) and Vesting of Stock Awards May Trigger HSR Filing Requirements (January 24, 2012)
• Revised HSR Form Adds Significant Reporting Requirements (July 26, 2011)
• 2011 Hart-Scott-Rodino Threshold Requirements (February 21, 2011)
• Public Statements about Pricing Changes May Create Antitrust Litigation Risk (October 20, 2010)
• "Retrospective Review of Petroleum Industry Mergers" (with Kay Lynn Brumbaugh), Competition Law360 (November 17, 2008)
•  “Antitrust, Fifth Circuit Survey" Texas Tech Law Review (1996) 
•   “Passing-On Revived: An Antitrust Dilemma" Baylor Law Review (1980)

Events

• "A Texas Antitrust Case from Trial through Appeal to the Texas Supreme Court," (co-presenter) Speech to the Texas State Bar Antitrust & Business Litigation Section at the State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting (June 2005)
• "Supreme Court's No Evidence Standard for the 21st Century—Something New or Something Old," presented at the Page Keeton Civil Litigation Conference sponsored by The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas (October 26, 2007)

Professional Recognition

• Recognized as a "Local Litigation Star" in Texas by Benchmark Litigation (2011)
  
• The Best Lawyers in America, Antitrust Law and Commercial Litigation (2001-2012)
• Profiled as one of the leading Antitrust lawyers in Texas, Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers (2006-2011)
• Texas Super Lawyer in Antitrust and Business Litigation, Texas Monthly (2006-2011)
• Named one of "Best Business Lawyers in Dallas" in White Collar Defense (2009, 2011) and Antitrust, D Magazine (2009)
• Profiled as one of the leading Antitrust lawyers in the Southwest, The US Legal 500 (2009)
• Selected to the 2008 class of Business Defense Lawyers (Defenders), Dallas Business Journal (2008)
• Profiled as a Go-to Antitrust Law attorney, Texas Lawyer Go-to Guide (2007)
• Who’s Who in American Law
• Best Lawyers in Dallas, D Magazine (May 2001, May 2003, May 2005, May 2007)
• Top 100 Texas Super Lawyers, Texas Monthly (November 2003)
• Who’s Who In American Colleges and Universities

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