As the legal economy overall continues to sputter and lawyers in many practice areas are aggressively looking for work, there’s no need for a number of attorneys and law firms…
A court-appointed receiver representing victims of a $7 billion Ponzi scheme for which former billionaire R. Allen Stanford is now serving a 110-year prison term has sued two well-known law…
A program of forgivable loans used to supplement the salaries of some law professors at the University of Texas and a former law dean lacks transparency and should be ended,…
A jailed Texas lawyer who has been federally indicted concerning his role in a claimed conspiracy to launder some $600 million for a Mexican drug cartel has been denied bail…
There’s new development concerning a disbarred Texas attorney whose bail was revoked in an otherwise unrelated criminal case after he allegedly vandalized the law office from which he was being…
Criminally charged in September with stealing from clients, disbarred last month and ordered in a separate civil eviction case to vacate by Oct. 31 the Dallas law office for which…
An El Paso, Texas, lawyer was arrested Friday at a local restaurant and jailed, pending a Thursday detention hearing, on a sealed federal indictment that federal officials say charges him…
A federal appeals court has revived a Texas attorney’s suit against the state, over an agency’s demand that he stop using the words “Texas” and “Workers’ Comp” in the domain…
A Texas lawyer facing 46 felony counts for based on allegations she double-billed Bexar County for her indigent defense services and forged judge’s signatures now says she herself needs free…
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