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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Who are your heroes?
In the "TSU Three" trial, plaintiffs lawyer Patrick Gilpin asked the 30 or so in the jury pool in U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison's court what public figures they admire from history or today. I…
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$3,100 a week to help the poor
Summer interns at Morgan Lewis get to spend several weeks working for the poor and making $3,100 a week while doing it. It's not the dollar amount that's unusual. Lots of big national firms pay…
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Creative renaming of legal services
We've seen it before with global warming. Now Fulbright & Jaworski is marketing some of its financial lawyers under a different name - the "Global Subprime and Credit Crisis Practice Group." While I was out…
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Back next week
I've been here not discussing the business of the law: Back next week. -Mary...
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How Lanier wins over juries
Standing on a chair so his audience could see him and his Power Point presentation in one glance, Mark Lanier, the Houston plaintiffs' lawyer famous for his lavish kid-friendly Christmas parties and lately a Vioxx…
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Welcome lawyers of Texas
The State Bar of Texas annual meeting begins here Thursday morning with an 8 a.m. breakfast to kick off two days of CLE, networking, drinking, swag gathering and business card swapping. The 200 speakers will…
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Texas Tech law dean resigning
Texas Tech University School of Law dean Walter Huffman sent this email out today: From: Huffman, Walter Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:25 PM To: Law-Faculty Staff and Students Subject: Future Plans Colleagues, I have…
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Bracewell spin-off spin
Ten school and public finance lawyers will be leaving Bracewell & Giuliani in six months to form a new firm. Evidence of how friendly every one is trying to be is that the mother ship…
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Stallings, Walton & Vail -- Triple loss to legal community
The local legal community has taken three big hits in the last week or so. We've lost Vinson & Elkins litigator Paul Stallings, former state District Judge Dan Walton and University of Houston Law Center…
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Lawyers trolling for tomato injuries too soon?
It's hard to be moved each time by the barrage of studies, emails and alerts that come from the never-say-die tort reformers in Texas and nationally. They've had a lot of success being the squeaky…