A Texas lawyer accused of stealing some $2.3 million from 49 disabled veterans whose finances he handled, has taken a plea as a trial was about to begin in federal…
A federal court ruled that the state of Texas could not show that a new voter ID law would not harm the voting rights of its minorities and struck down…
The State Bar of Texas is warning lawyers about an “apparent scam artist” who stole a nonpracticing attorney’s identity and set up a fake website in her name.
A defense lawyer’s handling of what could have been a routine probation-revocation hearing resulted in a huge shake-up in Harris County, Texas, after witnesses responding to questions by Lisa Andrews…
Corrected: Hilda Valadez, a Texas lawyer who reportedly earned $403,000 for her state court indigent defense work, was indicted Thursday for allegedly forging judges’ signatures and double-billing Bexar County for…
A Texas-based burger chain has sued one of the country’s largest debt collectors, contending that NCO Financial Services is hararassing an unidentified employee by making calls to the company’s San…
For the second time in two years, a convicted Texas triple murderer has been given a last-minute reprieve by the U.S. Supreme Court on the day he was scheduled to…
An East Texas-based food company specializing in fajita meat has agreed to pay $392,000 to settle a dispute over how its resale of meat intended for pet food ended up…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has halted the murder case against Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused in the mass killing of 13 and wounding…
A criminal contempt trial is under way against two Texas lawyers, concerning their winning defense of an El Paso municipal court judge in a criminal trial last year.
A Texas lawyer scheduled to be tried next month in a felony case in which she is charged with embezzling over $500,000 from her own grandmother is now being held…
Updated: A judge in Corpus Christi ordered two attorneys who were appearing before her to take ethics classes after they were reportedly seen looking through her cell phone.
One of two Texas lawyers convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud by a federal jury in Florida concerning a claimed scheme to steal the identities of dormant publicly traded…
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