As readers of "Legally Speaking" know, I have a fondness for chronicling some of the oddities that pervade the legal system, to the point of recognizing some of the strangest moments in a year-end wrapup.
AUSTIN � Personal injury trial lawyers poured millions of dollars into Texas elections this cycle, including more than $6 million to front groups and the Texas Democratic Party, a grass roots organization reported Nov. 24.
Most lawyers, whether we admit it or not, secretly hope for the chance at a true "Perry Mason" moment in the courtroom: that lightning in a bottle instant when you make the other side's star witness break down or confess.
Jennifer Mikel was congratulated by attorney David Beck after she was named recipient of the first David J. Beck Fellowship at Lamar University. Jennifer Mikel, a junior nursing major from Sweeny, has been named the inaugural winner of Lamar University's David J. Beck Fellowship.
Gerry Spence SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline)-Being a trial lawyer is the noblest profession in America, some 500 lawyers who gathered here for the annual Consumer Attorneys of California convention heard from one of the nation's most famed plaintiffs' attorneys.
I may not practice criminal law, but that doesn't mean that I can't be a fascinated voyeur watching the bizarre goings-on in the criminal justice system.
Plaintiffs lawyers like Walter Umphrey, Wayne Reaud, John O'Quinn and Fred Baron rose from their humble, blue collar beginnings in Texas to build some of the most successful firms in the country.
As "Legally Speaking" readers know, I've delved into the issue of lawyers on their worst behavior before, in a series of columns entitled "Lawyers Behaving Badly."
BEAUMONT, Texas-Case No. B-126,986, filed in the District Court of Jefferson County, Texas was just one of hundreds of thousands of similar cases filed over a period of 30 years on behalf of plaintiffs injured from exposure to asbestos.
AUSTIN � The Texas Access to Justice Foundation has announced that its 2008-2009 allotment of grants, totaling more than $24 million, will be distributed to 40 nonprofit organizations throughout Texas.
$15 million lawsuit? Why not $15 billion?
There seems to be no sensible compensation for the family of late Meagan Watkins, who now are demanding generational wealth from the Crockett Street bar it blames for her death.
Lisa Rickard WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)---A bevy of provisions that would expand liability laws for businesses and ordinary Americans have been worked into key pieces of legislation by the nation's trial lawyers, a group said Monday.
John G. Browning Lawyers, particularly those who regularly ply their trade in the courtroom, are rarely accused of shying away from attention. But there's a difference between not being shy and being downright exhibitionist.
Lawyer Bill Voss has seen two of his colleagues dismissed from the possibility of professional sanctions, but the Houston attorney is still waiting to see if the same will be true for him.
Judge Susan Criss GALVESTON � Galveston County 212th District Judge Susan Criss has given plaintiffs' attorney Brent Coon of Beaumont up until noon on July 8 to finish the seven-week trial against BP.
GALVESTON � The third trial arising from the March 2005 explosion at a BP facility in Texas City enters its fourth week with a California-based air quality expert on the stand.