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Tex Parte is Texas Lawyer’s daily blog covering the Lone Star State’s legal community. Posts alert readers about profession-related events and cover state district attorneys' offices, federal and state court decisions, comings and goings at Texas-based law firms and the State Bar of Texas, and profile of Texas lawyers and law students with stories to tell.
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Recent Posts from Tex Parte Blog
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Fashion Fridays: simple guide to update shopping
Fall/winter update shopping used to feel like a chore. I would spend countless hours at the mall, bobbing in and out of stores as I came upon them, looking for those few necessities that would…
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Students seeking to protest campus concealed-weapon ban challenge Tarrant County College's free-speech policy
Two students at the Tarrant County College District Northeast campus in Hurst want to wear empty gun holsters on campus on Nov. 9-13 to protest Texas law and college policy prohibiting the carrying of concealed…
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Friend says he and John O'Quinn were supposed to be on flight together to see client
Houston lawyers James Wesley “Wes” Christian (pictured) and John M. O’Quinn were both at Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport in the early morning of Oct. 29 to catch a flight to San Antonio for a…
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O'Quinn's will, filed for probate, details disposition of assets
John M. O’Quinn left his personal property -- except for his vast car collection owned by Classy Classic Cars Ltd. -- to his charitable trust, the John M. O’Quinn Foundation. In a will O’Quinn signed…
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Family of O'Quinn employee killed in crash lawyers up
The family of Johnny Cutliff, the longtime employee of the O’Quinn Law Firm who was killed in an automobile accident along with John M. O’Quinn on Oct. 29, has hired an attorney. Waverly R. Nolley,…
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Texas Appleseed readying to present awards
On the evening of Nov. 5, the late Fred Baron, the legendary plaintiffs lawyer who died a year ago, will receive a tribute for the help he provided the disenfranchised during his life. Baron, along…
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Firms' donations help nonprofit media outlet go live tonight
Sometime after midnight tonight, the Texas Tribune, a new nonprofit, nonpartisan public media organization headquartered in Austin, will launch its coverage of Texas politics and policymaking with stories, blogs, tweets and Facebook postings. Several firms…
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O’Quinn killed while rushing home to get papers
As Texas Lawyer reported, famed plaintiffs attorney John O’Quinn was scheduled to fly out of Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport last Thursday morning when he abruptly changed his mind, drove away in an SUV and…
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Locke Lord wins high marketing and communications ranking
One year after revamping its communications and marketing department, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell’s 2009 strategy earned it recognition as one of the nation’s leading firms for marketing and communications. The Dallas-based firm is ranked…
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Kay Bailey Hutchison plays tort-reform card in health-care debate
As a casual observer of the heath-care reform debate, I haven’t heard much worth noting from my home state U.S. senators. But when the specter of “tort reform” is raised, that’s when I get interested…