Opinions
Brent Coon got into deep water
“[W]e led the charge against British Petroleum following the 2005 explosion at the BP Texas City Refinery that killed 15 people,” Beaumont attorney Brent Coon declared on a website launched five years later to exploit the subsequent tragedy of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. “Now, we’re preparing to take on the oil giants once again.”
For lawyers, “creative” is synonymous with self-serving
“Preparing wrongful death claims and securing their payment requires creativity,” Beaumont attorneys Mitchell Toups and Richard Coffman assert on their website.
The Future of Personal Injury Lawsuits in 2021
The pandemic has taught us that some things are beyond our control while others we have a greater chance to control. The past ten months have also given us a very interesting glimpse into the new year and what could be the most important trends in the personal injury industry.
Trust Us. We’re Experts
Not surprisingly, two Ivy League administrative law scholars with technocratic expertise defend the discipline on the grounds that “technocratic expertise greatly matters.”
Did Kevin Bobo make a boo-boo?
If your name were Klutz, you might want to be extra careful. Not that your name defines you necessarily, or predetermines your destiny, but, hey, it can have an influence on how you act and how others act toward you, so why make a self-fulfilling prophecy out of it?
Strong Trade Secrets Law is Essential to Economic Recovery Now and Post-Pandemic
Negotiations between the White House and Congress regarding additional financial relief and stimulus finally reached a breakthrough over the weekend. But while the $900 billion deal will deliver relief to small-businesses and unemployed Americans and bolster vaccine distribution, it appears that negotiators failed to include liability reforms and legal protections from the many lawsuits that will likely be borne out of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
If you don’t see vote fraud, you must be blind
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office staff has received death threats following his decision to join an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a lawsuit challenging election results in four swing states.
How to Document Your Personal Injury Case
There are 10 things every person injured in an accident should do. One of the greatest obstacles to personal injury lawsuits is missing or incomplete documentation from the time of the accident moving forward. It is impossible to overstate the importance of thoroughly documenting every key event from the time of your injury.
Toups and Coffman, the Urkel twins
“Did I do that?” That was the catchphrase of Steve Urkel, the Family Matters character who stole the show with his ridiculously over-the-top portrayal of an accident-prone nerd.
Bad lessons from Texas school districts
Two Texas school districts have joined the opioid gold rush. Hey, why not get in on the action? Everyone else is doing it – including multiple municipalities, and the state, too.
The Freedom to Govern Ourselves: Secure and Free elections should be every American’s goal
Recent events suggest that the pursuit of power may be as corrupting as holding power itself. It certainly makes hypocrites of most. Consider the Democrats today who have been saying that Trump must concede the election for the good of the country.
Exposing the hidden tax of litigation
Two years ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform released a study showing that the cost of tort litigation nationwide in 2016 was $429 billion: nearly three-quarters the size of the U.S. defense budget and $100 billion more than Americans spent on retail drugs in 2016. Roughly half of that amount went to plaintiffs, the balance to lawyers’ fees and insurance and administrative costs.
As Exxon fights for justice, others join the fight
What can one person do? If you don’t know already, you’d be surprised.
Unruly employee sues employer for results of his unruliness
Nobody likes being criticized or talked down to, but you kind of have to get used to it if you want to get along in life, because it’s bound to happen once in a while. Sometimes you might deserve it and sometimes you might not. Even if you don’t deserve it, however, you may have to put up with it, depending on the circumstances.
State Judges Should Be Selected in partisan elections
Texans have held a right to elect their judiciary for 150 years. Every few years, the legal elites and media start testing if now is the time they can take away this right. Now is another of those times. A group of politicians, the Texas Commission on Judicial Selection is meeting and again considering this issue and will again recommend that the right to elect partisan judges is too much freedom to grant non law licensed folks.
The bare facts about Landon Keating and his client
“I’ve had a target on my back since I got in,” Joe Biden says of his campaign for president, and that’s certainly true – metaphorically, at least – of almost anyone running for public office, especially frontrunners. All their opponents are going to follow the leaders and snipe at them.
Letter to the editor: The Talk
I heard the candidates discuss “The Talk” during the Presidential debate.
OPINION: A President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Senator MJ Hegar will mean Democrats will pack the Supreme Court
Democrats have a long history of refusing to talk about issues that are wildly unpopular with the American people.
Don’t mess with Texas, Texas tea, or Exxon!
Exxon taking climate change fight to Texas Supreme Court
Barrett and Beyond: the Green Case for Supreme Court Reform
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as her successor have raised anxieties about a reconfigured court’s impact on our environmental laws. Barrett’s refusal to answer questions on climate change during her confirmation hearings has only increased worries about the future of climate legislation and environmental protection if she joins the court.