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Legally Speaking: If At First You Don't Succeed
As you read this column, thousands of recent law school graduates across the country will be recovering from taking the legal profession's rite of passage, the bar exam. -
172nd Court District, Judge Floyd, Feb. 1-29
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Abbott awards $100K to Consumer Law Program at St. Mary's
SAN ANTONIO - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott awarded more than $100,000 to St. Mary's University School of Law on Jan. 24, which will use the funding to expand the legal services its consumer law clinic provides to South Texas residents. -
Beaumont attorney named university regent
Michael Truncale Beaumont attorney Michael Truncale has been named to the board of regents of his alma mater. -
Legally Speaking: Getting Rid of the Lawyers
In Shakespeare's play Henry VI, Part 2, anarchist and mob leader Dick the Butcher uttered the famous line, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -
Legally Speaking: Lawyers Without Borders � A Look Inside the Japanese Legal System
I recently had the opportunity to host a visiting judge from Japan, to help him learn more about the American civil justice system. In the process, I not only gained some insight into the Japanese legal system, but I made a new friend as well. -
Orwig stepping down as U.S. Attorney, says move not related to national issue
Matthew Orwig, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, is leaving his post at the end of May to join a law firm opening a branch in Dallas.