Updated: A certified public accountant who applied to Baylor Law School claims in a lawsuit (PDF) that he is a victim of age discrimination because he went to college…
The government is dropping all charges against a Texas lawyer who had been expected to go to trial this week on charges related to multiple attacks on his wife.
An attorney representing a Pennsylvania lawyer in a federal racketeering case concerning the claimed takeover and looting of a Texas-based mortgage company is seeking to sever his client’s trial from…
A man accused of bilking victims in Texas of over $20,000 by posing as an attorney was subsequently arrested in Mississippi, where he was pretending to be a preacher and…
A federal judge in Brownsville has refused to dismiss a racketeering conspiracy case against a sitting district attorney and a lawyer accused of involvement in a judicial bribery scheme.
A South Texas judge acquitted on all counts in a criminal bribery trial last year apparently is not complaining about her representation by defense lawyers Theresa Caballero and Stuart Leeds…
More details are emerging in an ongoing judicial corruption case in federal court in South Texas that federal authorities say involved, in addition to other alleged misconduct by multiple defendants,…
A federal judge in Texas has rejected a prosecution contention that a defense lawyer should forfeit attorney fees of $50,000 for suggesting to jurors that the prosecution of his client…
Texas A&M University announced today that it is purchasing Texas Wesleyan University’s law school for an estimated $20 million or more, as part of a plan to put Texas A&M…
The Texas Supreme Court has vacated a lower appellate court’s opinion concerning an interlocutory appeal and voided the appeal itself, explaining that there is no jurisdiction to hear the matter…
A federal appeals court has upheld a sanction of nearly $30,000 against a plaintiff’s firm in a products liability case for accidentally distributing material it was required to keep secret…
A former branch manager who claimed she was fired from a Texas title company because she refused to dye her gray hair wasn’t able to persuade a Houston federal judge…
A Texas man who told a 911 dispatcher he needed an ambulance for a man he beat for raping his 5-year-old daughter won’t be charged in the death that resulted.
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