BEAUMONT – The Ferguson Law Firm has added another talented attorney to its already-impressive roster of trial attorneys with the addition of Harrison Tatum, a Southeast Texas native who joined the firm last month, a press release states.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s ill-informed comments and questions at the recent oral argument in the challenge to the Biden Administration’s COVID vaccination mandate case (National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor) provide a timely reminder that the hyper-elite legal talent on the nation’s High Court is not always what it is cracked up to be.
HOUSTON – The Office of Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee (HCAO) announces the launch of its first annual Summer Legal Academy (SLA), a legal training and educational program designed to expose high school students to the path to becoming an attorney, a press release states.
AUSTIN – The River Road Independent School District wants to hire a San Antonio law firm to bring a hail claim, according to documents obtained by The Record.
McALLEN – A lawsuit seeking no less than $25 million in damages for the false imprisonment, sexual assault and rape of a 16-year old girl has been brought against the Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District.
In 2013, the Federal Judges Association and the Federal Bar Association jointly sponsored a national high school essay contest on “What a Fair and Impartial Judiciary Means to Me and to the United States.”
HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced an agreement on Wednesday with a Houston-based entity that allegedly falsely claimed to be an accredited educational institution.
When attorney Bob Wortham began his career in public service more than 40 years ago, it was in the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office. Now after serving as a district court judge and a U.S. attorney, Wortham is coming full circle and running to lead the office where he first started.
In a recent interview, Justice Antonin Scalia—as towering a legal authority as they come—discussed his belief as a Catholic not only that the Devil exists, but that Satan is still very much around and even “wilier” than ever before.
In case the government shutdown has you worried about missing out on all the strange happenings at our nation’s courthouses, fear not; there’ enough weirdness going on in the legal system to keep you happy for quite some time.
