After advance word that a number of partners planned to exit Patton Boggs in order to establish a Holland & Knight office in Dallas, their new firm has made an…
The city of West, Texas, has filed a product liability lawsuit against both the owner of a fertilizer plant where a fiery explosion detonated with the force of an earthquake…
A Texas lawyer is facing a triple whammy, simultaneously defending legal ethics and criminal cases over claimed thefts from his former firm, as well as an apparently unrelated burglary charge.
An exonerated former inmate who was awarded a $6 million compensation package after serving 24 years for rapes committed by another man is still racking up big legal bills.
A high school valedictorian has gotten legal counsel after a Texas high school reportedly made good on a threat to turn off the microphone if he deviated from a preapproved…
As a trial proceeds against a Texas physician who is accused of sexually assaulting a patient, the government is focusing on an unusual target—a private attorney who is representing the…
After a decision by a military judge earlier this month that Maj. Nidal Hasan can represent himself in a looming trial over the 2009 massacre of military personnel at Fort…
After nearly five hours of deliberation, a jury sentenced a Texas lawyer on Tuesday to three years in prison for firing five shots in 2010 at a U.S. census worker…
A Texas jury is pondering punishment after finding a lawyer guilty Monday of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for shooting at a U.S. census worker in 2010.
As both law students and law schools struggle to develop a game plan for a new reality in which legal work and what corporate clients are willing to pay for…
A 43-year-old Mexican lawyer shot to death at a Texas shopping mall last week as he and his wife were loading bags into the couple’s Range Rover seemingly was the…
A Texas nursing home sizzling over severe penalties imposed after a state inspection found two residents had been served unpasteurized eggs that were inadequately cooked has presumably simmered down after…
A former Texas district attorney is expected to continue testifying Thursday in his federal trial over allegedly operating the DA’s office as a criminal racketeering enterprise.
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