Both Danny Becnel and Mikal Watts are personal injury titans representing plaintiff fishermen in litigation against BP over the 2009 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
After less than an hour of deliberation, a federal jury in Fort Worth on Wednesday found a tax protester guilty of attempting to solicit the murder-for-hire of a federal judge…
President Obama is considering three federal judges, one of them a Republican, to fill vacancies on the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
A woman who was fired after complaining of sexually suggestive sniffing by two co-workers may pursue a retaliation suit, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A Texas lawyer convicted of racketeering conspiracy and other charges in a Cameron County judicial bribery case was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in federal prison and ordered to pay…
Resolving a circuit split, the U.S. Supreme court has sided with the Internal Revenue Service in a dispute over the maximum penalty that can be assessed when a taxpayer misstates…
A federal appeals court has ruled that a lawsuit against an airline for allegedly taping a sex toy to the top of a checked bag should survive a motion to…
Opponents of a Texas abortion law say one-third of the state’s 36 abortion providers may be forced to shut down as a result of a provision allowed to take effect…
A once-prominent Texas lawyer has been convicted of conspiring to launder up to $600 million for a Mexican drug cartel and faces a federal prison sentence of as much as…
A prominent Texas lawyer met with the ex-wife of a former president of Mexico and discussed a scheme in which he would launder as much as $600 million for a…
A Florida law firm has sued a competing personal injury shop over its alleged use of the plaintiff firm’s name as Google Adwords to drive search-engine traffic.
Most judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals read legal briefs on iPads, New Orleans appellate lawyer Raymond P. Ward wrote at Louisiana Civil…
A federal appeals court has tossed a deceptive trade practices claim in a would-be class action against Match.com that alleged subscribers were misled about the number of active users on…
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