DALLAS – Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that seven attorneys across the firm’s Dallas and Houston offices have been named to the 2022 Texas Super Lawyers Magazine’s Texas Rising Stars list.
BEAUMONT - A Port Arthur woman has received $1.25 million in a settlement for injuries sustained in a tractor-trailer crash in 2020. She was represented by The Ferguson Law Firm, LLP managing partner, Paul ‘Chip’ Ferguson. The case was slated for trial in February 2022 but settled the week prior.
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 — Bowman and Brooke LLP has announced that Mary R. Pawelek has been reelected as Firm Vice Chair and Executive Managing Partner. Additionally, Randall L. Christian has been reelected as Managing Partner, and John D. Garrett reelected as Co-Managing Partner of Bowman and Brooke, Austin. The firm has also announced additions to the team, a press release states.
IJ client Azael Sepulveda can finally open his mechanic's shop in Pasadena, Texas. That's because of a rare temporary injunction we secured yesterday against the city's demand that he build dozens of useless and expensive parking spots.
After two years, the extraordinary government measures—federal, state, and local—taken in response to the COVID pandemic, some of which were supposed to be temporary, have finally begun to abate, along with the fear and panic that inspired them.
Partners Cody A. Dishon and Jane S. Leger of the Ferguson Law Firm recently won a life-changing, seven-figure settlement for a worker involved in a workplace industrial accident, a press release states.
Kidney disease is a life-changing diagnosis. Since I went into renal failure, I’ve believed that patients should only have to worry about the care they need to get well, not the high costs that come with it.
SAN ANTONIO - Federal district court judge Xavier Rodriguez issued a verdict yesterday against the U.S. in the amount of $230,000,000 for the government’s role in causing the shooting at Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church on Nov. 5, 2017, a press release states.
Legal scholars continue to explore the frontier of constitutional interpretation, with recent books by Ilan Wurman (The Second Founding; A Debt Against the Living), Kurt Lash (The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship; The Reconstruction Amendments), Randy Barnett (The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment; Our Republican Constitution), and many others.
AUSTIN - A county does not have the authority to place a sign in a state highway right-of-way without approval of the Texas Department of Transportation or an agreement with the Texas Transportation Commission, Attorney General Ken Paxton opined yesterday.
