AUSTIN – Attorney Mark Lanier, who stands to make millions of dollars for his work on Texas’ antitrust lawsuit against Google, has donated $25,000 to Attorney General Ken Paxton, campaign finance records show.
BEAUMONT – Back in December, the Ninth Court of Appeals affirmed a ruling rejecting an expert report offered by Christus Health Southeast Texas in a lawsuit brought by a patient who delivered her baby into a toilet while admitted to St. Elizabeth Hospital.
AUSTIN – Attorney Mark Lanier stands to make millions of dollars for his work on Texas’ antitrust lawsuit against Google – billable time that Attorney General Ken Paxton apparently doesn’t think is any of the public’s business.
AUSTIN – Although Ken Paxton fled Texas as Winter Storm Uri froze the state, the attorney general just can’t seem to escape the heat, as a coalition of groups are questioning his need for $43 million in taxpayer funds to sue Google.
AUSTIN – Attorney Zina Bash has left the Texas Attorney General’s Office and joined Keller Lenkner – a law firm the state recently hired to represent it in an antitrust lawsuit against Google.
AUSTIN – For every hour Mark Lanier spends litigating an antitrust lawsuit against Google, he stands to make as much as $3,780 per hour – thanks to a potentially lucrative deal the Houston attorney signed with the state of Texas.
HOUSTON - Attorney General Ken Paxton agreed to pay outside lawyers as much as $3,780 per hour to sue Google – a questionable arrangement that fails to protect taxpayers, says one area attorney.
Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that the State of Texas is leading a multistate coalition in a lawsuit against Google for multiple violations of federal and state antitrust and consumer protection laws, including anticompetitive conduct, exclusionary practices and deceptive misrepresentations in connection with its role in the multi-trillion-dollar online display advertising industry.
BALTIMORE – Drug company Hoffmann-La Roche falsified scientific conclusions and mounted a high-powered marketing and lobbying campaign to deceive the government about the effectiveness of Tamiflu for fighting a flu pandemic, according to new filings in a federal False Claims Act lawsuit.
HOUSTON – Although it looks like Texas is close negotiating an opioid settlement, no actual settlement has been “effectuated” – thus apparently making it too soon to appoint a fee committee, according to attorney Martin Phipps.
“It is a true privilege to perform the important work of protecting individuals and businesses from corporate abuse,” Houston trial lawyer Mark Lanier proclaimed when the National Trial Lawyers professional association named him the 2018 Trial Lawyer of the Year.
HOUSTON – Three workers who were injured in an explosion at the KMCO chemical plant in Crosby filed suit against the company on Monday, alleging that negligent practices caused the blast that injured them and killed another worker.
HOUSTON – A purported defect in a pistol has prompted a local man to bring a personal injury lawsuit against a shooting range, recent Harris County District Court records show.
Embarking on an aggressive effort to build new business relationships, The Lanier Law Firm has named longtime associate Rick Meadow the firm’s Director of Business Development.
Members of the invitation-only National Trial Lawyers have selected Mark Lanier as the group’s 2018 Trial Lawyer of the Year for plaintiff litigation and have also included him among the 50 Most Influential Lawyers in the U.S.
