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Texas AG to Kendall County: Butt out!
Prior to the passage of House Bill 2826 late last summer, Texas law required local governments to submit contingency-fee contracts to the state comptroller for approval. -
Texas AG Office says it cannot approve opioid contract between Simon Greenstone and Kendall County – county a target for bellwether
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. -
Texas opioid MDL: Dallas County selected for first bellwether trial
HOUSTON – Dallas County, the second most populated county in Texas, has been selected for the state’s first opioid bellwether trial. -
Opioid lawyers eye Dallas County for first bellwether trial, October 2020 setting likely
HOUSTON – Attorney Mikal Watts believes going to trial can solve the opioid crisis and that more people can be helped sooner by trying the biggest lawsuits in Texas first. -
Billing records for Texas opioid cases show wildly varying costs among lawyers
May 15 was a busy day for the name partners at the Tyler, Texas-based Martin Walker law firm. Each billed 14.5 hours at $750 an hour, for a total of $21,750, to review lawsuits six Texas counties were preparing to file against opioid manufacturers and distributors that day. -
Facing complaints of excessive fees, Texas counties release billing records of their opioid lawyers for free
Texas counties that demanded tens of thousands of dollars to provide billing records from outside attorneys representing them in opioid lawsuits have mostly agreed to hand them over for free -
Want to know what opioid lawyers are up to in Texas? It costs thousands to find out
Some Texas counties are demanding tens of thousands of dollars to comply with open-records requests for documents detailing the time and expenses private attorneys have racked up so far representing them in opioid litigation. -
Texas AG finds county violated state law in request for opioid lawyers' billing records
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has found that a Texas County has violated state law by refusing to comply with a request for the billing records of private attorneys the county hired to sue opioid manufacturers and distributors -
Lawyers for Texas counties in opioid cases may not have valid contracts
Some lawyers and Texas counties who have teamed to sue the opioid industry have not received the required approval from a state official. -
Texas officials were 'in over their heads' when they struck deals with opioid lawyers
When it hired outside lawyers to represent it in lawsuits against the opioid industry, Harris County agreed to pay a contingency fee of 35%, more than double the rate in Dallas County and equal to the highest in the state. -
Records show all-out, unsolicited attorney scramble to sign up Texas counties for opioid litigation
BEAUMONT – A new lawyer feeding frenzy has swept through Texas – a rush to push counties onboard the opioid litigation train before the state can pull into the station. -
NE Texas county joins legal fray resulting from opioid epidemic
MARSHALL – A Northeast Texas county has pursued legal action in response to the ongoing opioid epidemic, according to recent Marshall Division of the Eastern District of Texas records. -
With Obama's veto threat gone, asbestos 'double-dipping' bill reintroduced
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A bill that targets the country’s current asbestos injury compensation system has been quietly reintroduced by a Texas federal lawmaker who is hoping President Trump is more receptive than his predecessor. -
Simon Greenstone’s playground retort
“That's what you are, but what am I?” You might expect a lame remark like that to be employed as a retort by an underage antagonist on an elementary school playground or a superannuated adolescent in a Pee Wee Herman movie, but not as a comeback from mature counsel in a courtroom. -
Dallas asbestos firm goes on attack in response to Garlock's RICO suit against it
A Dallas asbestos firm facing a racketeering lawsuit is attempting to turn the tables on its accuser. -
Our View: Garlock turns the tables on predatory asbestos firms
Search Youtube or Google Images for “predator becomes prey” and you’ll find incredible but real examples of the tables being turned by intended victims: bunnies getting the best of snakes, house cats intimidating alligators, octopi engulfing sharks, wild boar goring leopards, etc. -
Texas asbestos firms among 5 sued by Garlock a day before judge condemned lawyers’ actions
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Legal Newsline) – Garlock Sealing Technologies, the company that successfully argued asbestos attorneys were gaming the compensation system, has filed four lawsuits against law firms.