Children everywhere rejoice in the idea of jolly old St. Nick arriving on Christmas in his reindeer-powered sleigh laden with presents. But if things keep moving in the direction they're heading, the fat man in the red suit is going to need more than elves to help him out � he's going to need a lawyer.
Lawyers in a coin fraud case say the opposing counsels' motion for sanctions against them is nothing more than a public relations move to divert attention from the coin company's deceptive activities.
It was two poor Filipino ship workers who risked their livelihoods and notified the U.S. Coast Guard of illegal, secret off-shore dumping of oil sludge.
Local attorney Steve Mostyn, who flooded the Jefferson County District Clerk's Office with hundreds of Hurricane Rita lawsuits in recent months, is now spearheading a class-action suit against Allstate. Mostyn is claiming the insurance company disseminated misleading statements to the public regarding the statute of limitations for filing Rita cases.
TEXARKANA � Lawyers from Beaumont have filed suit in Arkansas on behalf of a woman who claims her hormone replacement therapy caused her breast cancer.
Jefferson County jurors found no evidence that Dillard's department store engaged in racial profiling, and instead found the plaintiffs liable for causing the altercation with a store security guard who they claimed had singled them out because they were black.
Washington & Ernster A defense lawyer for Dillard's told jurors that if they believed the plaintiffs' story about being assaulted at the department store by a security officer, then he had some swampland in Florida they might be interested in.
James Alfini Mediation based on party self-determination is becoming threatened by current practices and the "colonization" of the dispute resolution arena by attorneys, the president of a Southeast Texas law school said recently to a legal group in Beaumont.
Believing that not all cases need to go to court, Judge Al Gerson was the first judge in Jefferson County to adopt a local rule requiring mediation in appeals filed in small claims litigation.
The firestorm of controversy ignited by Columbia University's decision to provide Iranian president Ahmadinejad with a public forum for his hate-mongering has barely subsided, but another controversial speaking invitation in New York has largely escaped public scrutiny.
Judge Bob Wortham Lamar University and the Beaumont Foundation of America have announced the eighth of nine Southeast Texas Legends Scholarships � this one honoring Judge Bob Wortham, who, throughout his distinguished career as a federal prosecutor, district judge and private attorney, has been known as an innovator and legal pioneer whose landmark cases have had national impact.
Plaintiffs in more than 30 cases avoided the courtroom and took advantage of Jefferson County Settlement Week Sept. 17-21 to resolve disputes. For the past 18 years, the Jefferson County Settlement Week has provided citizens with a timely and cost-effective way to resolve disputes.
The family of a woman killed trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in 2003 has been trying-to date unsuccessfully-to sue Caterpillar, Inc., the American manufacturer of the bulldozer used in the demolition.
For James Zadroga, the late night errand to fetch his 4 year-old daughter a drink should have been a simple one. But on this January night, Zadroga's tortured, scarred lungs finally gave out, four years after the 34-year-old former New York City police detective initially developed respiratory problems while working in the rubble of the World Trade Center after Sept. 11, 2001.
Beaumont police officers secured the Jefferson County Courthouse after an inmate with a gun held corrections officers hostage at the adjacent city jail. An inmate with a gun at the Beaumont city jail caused a tense morning at the Jefferson County Courthouse Monday.