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Native Texan artist commissioned for painting of Texas legal legend
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AUSTIN – In the span of more than 15 years, the Champions of Justice Gala Benefiting Veterans has raised more than $4.8 million for the provision of civil legal aid for low- income Texas veterans, a press release states.
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After two years, the extraordinary government measures—federal, state, and local—taken in response to the COVID pandemic, some of which were supposed to be temporary, have finally begun to abate, along with the fear and panic that inspired them.
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Three Bradley Attorneys Selected for Leadership Council on Legal Diversity 2022 Fellows and Pathfinder Programs.
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Partners Cody A. Dishon and Jane S. Leger of the Ferguson Law Firm recently won a life-changing, seven-figure settlement for a worker involved in a workplace industrial accident, a press release states.
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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.
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Butler Snow Adds Nine Attorneys Across Five Offices.
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Ogletree Deakins Expands Houston Office with “Go-To” Litigators.
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Paxton Works to Stop International Scam Calls.
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The return of nuclear verdicts to Texas courts (and attorney television advertising) and the recently launched efforts of the medical malpractice plaintiff’s bar to convince the federal courts to strike down Texas’ cap on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases (which is likely to play out over several years) could potentially raise an issue for state lawmakers: is it time to consider codifying at least some objective standards and levels of proof for mental anguish damages?
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The $1B verdict is the new $1M – Forensics of a Nuclear Liability Verdict on January 11, 2022.
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DALLAS — Continuing its expansion in Texas, O’Melveny has announced the arrival of “rising star” trial and appellate lawyer Kristin Cope as a partner in the firm’s new Dallas office, a press release states.
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The following cases categorized as "contract - consumer/commercial/debt" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Nov. 19. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
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The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity on Nov. 19 in the suits below:
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The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Sofi Lending Corp. as Attorney in Fact for Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB as Trustee of Sofi Consumer Loan Program Grantor Trust 2019 4 against Jermarcus Parker on Nov. 19.
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It’s been going on for more than a decade: the lobbying to let lawyers filing contingency-based lawsuits deduct fees and expenses immediately from tax returns. Such expenses have long been treated as loans to clients, recoverable at settlement – or, in case of a loss in court, deducted from tax returns at the conclusion of a case.
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Loudoun County, Virginia, an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., represents the contentious zeitgeist bedeviling the body politic. As I reported elsewhere last year, the Loudoun County school board has become ground zero in an escalating culture war in which concerned parents oppose leftist indoctrination posing as curriculum.
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AUSTIN – Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Zina Bash and reappointed Evan Young to the Texas Judicial Council for terms set to expire on June 30, 2027, a press release states.
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The Clark Hill-ABA Connection: Deep Roots & A New Leadership Role.
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A defendant is accused of soliciting the sexual performance of a child. What to do? A hundred years ago they may have tar and feathered him without a trial, but certainly such drastic actions wouldn’t occur in a modern society, right?
