Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to President George W. Bush, will speak at Blowout 2011, the Texas Energy Museum's annual fund raising dinner. The event will be held at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 17, 2011, at the Beaumont Civic Center.
Abbott SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - A Seattle-based blogger and Google's general counsel are questioning whether Microsoft is pulling the strings in the Texas attorney general's office.
Miller WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A group of Democratic state attorneys general are excited that President Barack Obama signed federal financial reform legislation into law Wednesday.
Cuomo DURHAM, N.C. (Legal Newsline) - The way Duke University professor and former North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Michael Munger sees it, there can be only two reasons New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is suing Bank of America -- and neither of them are good.
Abbott (R) Attorneys general of several states have been getting negative press lately for hiring campaign donors as outside counsel in public pension fund shareholder litigation. Texas, however, has remained above the fray.
Lawsuits against Dole on behalf of Nicaraguan banana pickers allegedly exposed to pesticides have been in the news this summer after a California judge ruled that some of the plaintiffs' attorneys committed fraud.
Jefferson County has been in the national news recently,not for hurricane coverage but in an article about tort reform that named a local court as the first place a major company lost a silica trial.
A former Beaumont attorney may lose out on millions in legal fees if the Pennsylvania Supreme Court removes him from a suit against a pharmaceutical company on allegations his contract for legal fees has the appearance of a "pay to play" scheme.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. � A recently filed class action alleges a conspiracy between Netflix and Wal-Mart allowed Netflix to create a monopoly in the DVD rental market.
Plaintiffs lawyers like Walter Umphrey, Wayne Reaud, John O'Quinn and Fred Baron rose from their humble, blue collar beginnings in Texas to build some of the most successful firms in the country.