Stories by Texans for Lawsuit Reform on Southeast Texas Record

Ah, celebrities—they’re just like us. At least when it comes to squabbles between business partners.

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.

Texas’ road from Spindletop to Tesla seems unlikely, but in reality, it was inevitable.

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.

The 14th Court of Appeals in Houston recently decided to take up one of the largest nuclear verdicts in the state.

Any Imposition of Liability Related to the Coronavirus Must be Based on Standards that Recognize these Extraordinary Circumstances

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.