Texas is home to one of the largest, most active law firms in the nation, with more than 4,000 employees in 38 divisions and 117 offices across the state. Its 750 attorneys handle more than 30,000 cases each year, many of them among the most complicated and high-profile legal issues facing the state.
AUSTIN—The State Bar of Texas Board of Directors voted September 24 to approve Joe Escobedo Jr. of Edinburg and Cindy V. Tisdale of Granbury as candidates for 2022-2023 president-elect.
AUSTIN – The 14th Court of Appeals today dismissed two appeals brought in litigation accusing Facebook of permitting sex traffickers to prey on children to proceed.
DALLAS and HOUSTON – Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that nine partners in the firm’s Dallas and Houston offices have been named to the 2021 edition of Texas Super Lawyers, a press release states.
HOUSTON – A lawsuit accusing Duc Dinh, a well-known member of the Vietnamese community, of rape has been abated while litigation Dinh brought prior to his accuser’s lawsuit finishes playing out.
Jeff Wurzburg, a well-known and respected health care lawyer previously with the HHS Office of the General Counsel, has joined Locke Lord in the Austin and Washington, D.C., offices.
AUSTIN – The California municipalities bringing climate change lawsuits against oil companies seek to benefit from suppressing Texas free speech and attacking Texas policy, according to ExxonMobil’s recently filed brief.
As someone who lived in California and Texas for nearly my entire adult life, I read Kenneth P. Miller’s new book, Texas vs. California (2020), with considerable anticipation.
HOUSTON – Last August, Brent Coon was hit with a legal malpractice lawsuit alleging the Beaumont attorney botched his representation of a Deepwater Horizon oil spill claimant.
DALLAS—September 1, 2021—Continuing its expansion in Texas, O’Melveny announced today the arrival of Chambers-ranked trial lawyer Timothy S. Durst as a partner in the firm’s new Dallas office, a press release states.
AUSTIN – Whether the Democrats who fled the Texas Legislature last month vacated their office is a question for the courts and not the Office of the Attorney General, according to the state’s chief lawyer.
