AUSTIN – Attorney Mark Lanier, who stands to make millions of dollars for his work on Texas’ antitrust lawsuit against Google, has donated $25,000 to Attorney General Ken Paxton, campaign finance records show.
BEAUMONT – Back in December, the Ninth Court of Appeals affirmed a ruling rejecting an expert report offered by Christus Health Southeast Texas in a lawsuit brought by a patient who delivered her baby into a toilet while admitted to St. Elizabeth Hospital.
AUSTIN – Attorney Mark Lanier stands to make millions of dollars for his work on Texas’ antitrust lawsuit against Google – billable time that Attorney General Ken Paxton apparently doesn’t think is any of the public’s business.
BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals has concluded that a challenge to an expert report wasn’t enough for Christus Health Southeast Texas to escape a lawsuit brought by a patient who delivered her baby into a toilet while admitted to St. Elizabeth Hospital.
HOUSTON – Even though Kendall County has been sighted for an opioid bellwether trial, a contingent fee contract between the county and its attorneys has not been approved, according to documents obtained by The Record.
“[D]ue solely to the fault of the Super Lawyers, Sheri’s personal injury claims are forever barred and she will never recover for the severe injuries she suffered....”
That’s how Sheri Dorgan sums up the bind she was put in when attorneys Mark Lanier and Charles Herd – the so-called Super Lawyers she’d hired to represent her – failed to respond in a timely manner to a show of cause order from federal Judge Carl Barbier, who then dismissed her case with prejudice.
HOUSTON – While it’s no secret that dozens upon dozens of Texas municipalities have filed opioid lawsuits, what’s not commonly known is not all of those counties, cities, and even hospital districts had a contingent fee contract approved before the law changed late last year.
HOUSTON – After months of inactivity, appellate briefs have finally been filed in a legal malpractice lawsuit against renowned attorney Mark Lanier – a suit alleging he dropped the ball on litigating a client’s BP oil spill claim.
HOUSTON – A legal malpractice lawsuit against renowned attorney Mark Lanier is still up on appeal, leading the woman who brought the case against him to believe that she may not live long enough to see the case’s resolution.
TEXARKANA – The U.S. government does not have an absolute, unreviewable right to dismiss meritorious lawsuits brought under the False Claims Act – that’s the argument Lanier Law Firm lawyers are making to keep their whistleblower complaints alive.
NEW ORLEANS – Johnson & Johnson has petitioned the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to remove a federal court judge from adjudicating over a fourth bellwether trial stemming from a dispute involving metal-on-metal hip implants that have already cost the company nearly $1 billion in judgment payouts.
HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) – While many contend Republicans and tort reform go hand-in-hand, one influential Texas businessman says the GOP challengers running against the incumbent Texas Supreme Court justices are not pro-tort reform.
A League City woman faces suit after she allegedly served alcohol to minors and failed to supervise them, which the plaintiff claims resulted in a sexual assault.
HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) – Knowing that it would be next to impossible to elect a Democrat, trial lawyers are now financing the political campaigns of Republicans seeking to usurp Texas’s current Supreme Court justices, according to a legal reform group.
HOUSTON � Lawyers for shareholders suing BP under federal retirement law spared U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison the delicate task of choosing their leaders.
GALVESTON - An Alabama seaman alleges he was injured twice within a month while working aboard a vessel off the Louisiana coast, recent court documents say.
