Wake Up Call: Energy Law Firm to Close Doors

• A 60-attorney Houston-based energy law firm, Burleson LLP, plans to shut all five of its offices by the end of the year, due to a slump in revenues caused by decreasing oil prices, its managing partner said. (Law360)

• A week after a Hogan Lovells associate was killed in the Paris terrorist attacks, Pierre Boivin, an energy and mining partner at Canadian law firm McCarthy Tétrault was among hostages who survived Friday’s hotel attack in Bamako, Mali, a firm spokesperson said. (The American Lawyer)

• University of Virginia School of Law said it has appointed legal historian Risa Goluboff as the first ...