Washington, DC - Highlighting critical standards that states apply to successfully regulate lawyer conduct, HALT, the nation's leading legal consumer advocacy group, is urging discipline agencies across the country to renovate their systems for holding lawyers accountable. The nonprofit group has recently released its Lawyer Discipline Best Practices report, a study drawing on HALT's 33 years of aggressive
Abbott HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) -- South Carolina-based income tax consulting firm JK Harris & Co. must pay $800,000 in refunds to its Texas customers, the Texas Attorney General's Office said Tuesday.
Washington, DC�The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Board of Directors is launching a Pro Bono Task Force to develop additional resources to help low-income Americans facing foreclosure, domestic violence and other serious civil legal problems.
Obama TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - The federal government, in an appeals brief filed Friday, called the judgment of a district court striking down President Barack Obama's federal health care reform "indefensible."
Abbott WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Thirty-eight state attorneys general, including Greg Abbott of Texas, announced a record-breaking $68.5 million agreement with a drug company Thursday over allegations of improper marketing practices.
GALVESTON � Kai Hui Qi alleges that the University of Texas Medical Branch's failure to diagnose her with preeclampsia caused her to deliver a stillborn infant two years ago, recent court documents say.
WHEELING, W. Va. � Former CSX railroad workers from North Carolina who sued Beaumont's Provost Umphrey law firm in federal court at Wheeling, W. Va., don't have travel to Wheeling for depositions, U. S. Magistrate Judge James Seibert decided on Dec. 30.
Holder WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice held its 27th annual Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director's Awards Ceremony on Dec. 8, during which 159 award recipients from more than 45 districts were recognized for their dedication to carrying out the mission of the Department of Justice.
WHEELING, W. Va. � Provost Umphrey law firm of Beaumont claims 15 former clients from North Carolina failed to prove they can't travel to West Virginia for depositions in their malpractice suit against the firm.
McCollum State attorneys general and state supreme courts received a share of the attention in the American Tort Reform Association's annual Judicial Hellholes report released Tuesday.
McCollum WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - As usual, state attorneys general and state supreme courts received a share of the attention in the American Tort Reform Association's annual Judicial Hellholes report.
Although tort reforms have kept Texas from making the list of the top "judicial hellholes," several of the state's courts are still under the eye of American Tort Reform Association.
Mitchell AUSTIN � A faculty member from George Mason University in Virginia has been appointed as the chief appellate lawyer for the state of Texas, Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Friday.
WHEELING, W. Va. � The Provost Umphrey law firm of Beaumont can't examine former clients to check their fitness for travel, U. S. Magistrate Judge James Seibert decided.
GALVESTON - Claiming her mentally disabled adult daughter was sexually assaulted, a Pasadena woman has filed suit against a Galveston County adult day care facility, a Houston taxi company and several individuals.
Cook WHEELING, W.Va. -� Former CSX railroad workers from North Carolina shouldn't have sued their former personal injury lawyers in West Virginia if they didn't feel like traveling to West Virginia, the former lawyers argue.