Legal Trade
This blawg focuses on the business of the law, especially in Houston and Texas.
Author: Mary Flood is a Houston Chronicle reporter and former practicing lawyer.
Blawg Related Categories: Judiciary • Law Firms • Law Students • Lawyer Pay • States • Texas • Legal News Publication
Recent Posts from Legal Trade
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Merck Vioxx win stands - UPDATED
An intermediate appellate court has denied an en banc hearing and replaced its opinion undoing a $26 million Angleton jury verdict against Merck in a Vioxx case. The widow of a 59-year-old triathelete still takes…
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Recession proof Stanford scandal legal fees?
Lawyers, like many in other professions, make money when things go wrong. Criminal charges, bankruptcy, divorce, civil lawsuits are all money generators just as illness generates money for doctors and hospitals. A big source of…
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Barrett Reasoner new HBA president
Barrett Reasoner, a Gibbs & Bruns partner, is the new president of the Houston Bar Association. Reasoner, from a family with good legal genes, succeeded Travis Sales. Reasoner, 45, is the son of Vinson &…
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That old legal song & dance
It's time again for the annual pun-filled review of dancing lawyers and judges. Night Court 2009: Legal Fairy Tales will run June 10-13 at the Wortham Center. See clips of past shows here. Last year…
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Bar poll confidence drop for Keller, Medina
The Houston Bar Association's judicial evaluation poll released today (see it here) shows some big losses in confidence in jurists who have been in the news - especially Sharon Keller on the state's highest criminal…
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Fundraising frenzy - lawyers try to cure cancer
Ellen Alexander, the capable and sweet case manager for U.S. District Judge David Hittner, decided to walk in a 5K this weekend to raise money for a cure for ovarian cancer after a friend was…
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U.S. Attorney dance
So now it appears the list of finalists for U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Texas has contracted and expanded. Staying in place appear to be lawyers Eric Reed and Susan Strawn. John Kyles,…
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The People's Law School - an amazing service
I was wildly impressed this weekend by the information available at The People's Law School at the University of Houston Law Center. This is free to the consumers who attend to learn some basics about…
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Lanier expands while others contract
In a time when many law firms are laying off lawyers here and there, Houston plaintiffs lawyer Mark Lanier is actually expanding. In a press release Lanier announced today that he's adding six lawyers, new…
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White House to Texas Sens.: Back Off - UPDATED
With our two Texas U.S. senators somewhat humorously saying they were accepting applications for U.S. attorney positions months after the Dems started their selection process, the White House just chimed in like Big Ben to…