A federal judge has been selected as the first dean of a new Texas law school expected to open in 2014 in a renovated former department store in downtown Dallas.
A former enforcement chief at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s office in Fort Worth, Texas, has reportedly agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a civil complaint by the U.S. Department…
A onetime Texas billionaire who has been imprisoned as a flight risk since 2009 is competent to stand trial next month in a $7 billion fraud case, a federal judge…
Updated: The parents of a young man who was severely burned at age 8 and died of a related skin cancer 13 years later won $370 million in compensatory damages…
R. Allen Stanford is scheduled to go to trial in January in an alleged $7 billion fraud in which investors were duped into buying so-called certificates of deposit at an…
Michael Morton spent nearly 25 years in prison for murdering his wife before Texas authorities finally tested DNA evidence and determined that another man was responsible for the slaying.
A 14-lawyer public finance practice group from Vinson & Elkins will be joining Bracewell & Giuliani in January as partners, their new firm announced today.
Corrected: An embattled Texas lawyer is suing a now-suspended family law judge who presided over a contentious custody case the lawyer was involved in, alleging that the judge slandered him…
Convicted and sentenced to life last month, LaDondrell Montgomery had insisted all along that he wasn’t the man identified by eyewitnesses to an armed robbery.
In what may be the first such case brought under a tough new Texas anti-barratry law, a former office manager has sued the two attorneys for whom she formerly worked,…
A New York man claims in a lawsuit against a Texas fertility clinic that his ex-girlfriend used in-vitro fertilization to get pregnant with sperm from their used condoms.
A Texas county attorney who faced 24 grievances after a run-in with the county commissioners and a local judge has settled a Texas State Bar complaint by agreeing to accept…
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