Texas trial lawyers advertise heavily after each storm strike in the state, seeking to sign up clients in mass. As hailstorm litigation mounts, so do charges of illegal barratry.
Another issue may have surfaced: the use of non-lawyers to perform lawyer-level work in representing the thousands of hailstorm clients.
AUSTIN – On Feb. 23 Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Bob Borochoff, Molly Curl, Phillip Holt and Matt Moore for terms set to expire on Feb. 1, 2022, to the Finance Commission of Texas.
On July 8 Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Houston attorney Erin Lunceford as judge of the 61st Judicial District Court in Harris County. Lunceford, a managing shareholder at Sprott, Newsom, Lunceford, Quattlebaum & Messenger, has worked on many cases litigated in Beaumont against Christus Health Southeast Texas, as reported by the Record. Her term is set to expire at the next general election in November 2016.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House announced last week that President Barack Obama has nominated three judges to fill vacancies in Texas federal courts.
HOUSTON - A Houston woman's lawsuit arising from a two-vehicle accident near the University of Houston earlier this year was tossed by a federal judge.
HOUSTON - A Houston woman claims a Louisiana man and his employer are responsible for a two-vehicle accident near the University of Houston earlier this year.
HOUSTON - An educator at the University of Houston seeks damages in response to what she claims is disparate pay rooted in race and gender discrimination.
The first four parts of this series chronicled how for years, Texas courts unquestioningly accepted junk science in the form of controversial "dog-scent lineups" that purported to tie accused individuals to a whole host of heinous crimes.
In the first installment of this series, we examined how the controversial use of so-called "dog-scent lineups" led to wrongful accusations � and in some cases incarcerations of several innocent individuals in Texas.
Abbott AUSTIN (Legal Newsline)� Conn's Appliances has agreed to pay $4.5 million in restitution to settle claims by the Texas attorney general that the company defrauded consumers.
Judge T. John Ward After thousands of patent infringement cases have passed through the federal court in Marshall, Texas, it may take only two recent court rulings to undo the district's docket.
U.S. District Judge T. John Ward It took a car headrest � that familiar object that is often overlooked until it is needed by a stiff-necked driver � to profoundly change an East Texas court.
