Shackelford, McKinley & Norton partner David Norton, who heads the firm’s aviation practice, has been selected to serve on Law360’s Transportation Editorial Advisory Board for 2025.
David is one of 10 attorneys, the only one from Texas, selected to the publication’s Transportation Board. Members will provide feedback on Law360’s editorial coverage of aviation, rail,
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Keep It Legal – Succession Planning with Jake Pollack
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In this episode of Keep It Legal, we sat down with Jake Pollack, wealth transfer planning attorney at Shackelford, McKinley & Norton in Dallas. We dive into the critical, yet often overlooked, topic of business succession planning. Mr. Pollack shares insights on why nearly 70% of family businesses lack a formal succession plan, the…
Women’s History Month – Michelle Snedden & Kara Hargrove
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Women’s History Month – Hilary Borow
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Women’s History Month – Anna Brooks Martin
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Shackelford, McKinley & Norton Adds to Litigation Expertise
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Three trial attorneys have joined Shackelford, McKinley & Norton, LLP, bolstering the firm’s business litigation expertise across Texas.
Mark Lewis joins the firm’s Houston office as Of Counsel. He represents Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and individuals in complex insurance coverage, construction, energy, environmental, fraud and civil RICO litigation. He also has significant experience…
DOT Revises First-Half 2025 SIFL Rates
By Greg Reigel
The U.S. Department of Transportation has revised the Standard Industry Fare Level (SIFL) rates for the six-month period from January 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025. These rates are needed in order to apply the IRS’s aircraft valuation formula to compute the value of non-business transportation aboard employer-provided aircraft and impute the income of the…
Greg Reigel Talks Airline Passenger Rights Regulations With State Bar of Wisconsin
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Shackelford, McKinley & Norton, LLP Dallas aviation partner Greg Reigel recently spoke with the State Bar of Wisconsin about the DOT’s recent Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Dec. 11 Federal Register (the “ANPRM”) addressing airline passenger rights.
Designed to address the disruptions in travel and costs/expenses incurred by passengers resulting from flight cancellations…
Houston, Dallas Partner Promotions Announced
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Shackelford, McKinley & Norton, LLP, is proud to announce the promotion of Houston’s Darryl Mazow and Dallas’ Michael D. McKinley II to equity partner. Dallas attorney Kara Hargrove has been promoted to non-equity partner.
Mr. Mazow focuses his corporate and transactional practice on family-owned and founder-owned companies and private equity and debt investors serving the lower-middle…
FAA Aircraft Registration Updates
By Greg Reigel
When Congress passed the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, Section 546 of that act required the FAA to upgrade the Civil Aviation Registry (the “Registry”). The upgrades are to include:
- the digitization of non-digital Registry information;
- the digitization of manual and paper-based processes;
- the implementation of electronic or remote methods for the public to
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