Texans for Lawsuit Reform News
Making Chancery Court Dreams Come True
Ah, celebrities—they’re just like us. At least when it comes to squabbles between business partners.
Old Dog, New Tricks
The concept of a public nuisance goes back to old English criminal laws making it, for example, a crime to obstruct the king’s highway.
A Foundation for Innovation
Texas’ road from Spindletop to Tesla seems unlikely, but in reality, it was inevitable.
The Most Important Law Firm in Texas
Texas is home to one of the largest, most active law firms in the nation, with more than 4,000 employees in 38 divisions and 117 offices across the state. Its 750 attorneys handle more than 30,000 cases each year, many of them among the most complicated and high-profile legal issues facing the state.
Another Look at a Texas Nuclear Verdict
The 14th Court of Appeals in Houston recently decided to take up one of the largest nuclear verdicts in the state.
TLR Statement on COVID-19 Liability
Any Imposition of Liability Related to the Coronavirus Must be Based on Standards that Recognize these Extraordinary Circumstances
The End of an Era for One Storm-Chasing Lawyer
TLR spent the 2015 and 2017 legislative sessions working to fix the problems storm-chasing lawyers were creating for Texas property owners. Fortunately, the Texas Legislature passed a common-sense solution in 2017 to make it harder for these lawyers to file unnecessary lawsuits, while maintaining the strongest insurance consumer protections laws in the United States for Texas property owners.