Houston solo Tom Kirkendall, a complex business litigator, is keeping up his legal practice after Hurricane Ike, thanks to advance planning and his Infiniti Q45.
Despite a mandatory evacuation order for Galveston, Texas, as Hurricane Ike was about to strike, there’s one group of residents that, as of 10 a.m. today, hadn’t yet complied—about 1,000…
Updated: A judge who oversaw the death penalty trial of Charles Dean Hood and the prosecutor in the case have admitted an affair, lawyers told the governor of Texas in…
There’s no word about what was said at depositions yesterday and today of a former prosecutor and a retired judge accused of having had an affair more than a decade…
Charles Dean Hood is scheduled to be executed Wednesday. But first his lawyers will be allowed to depose a former prosecutor and retired judge accused of having an affair during…
The law firm of Bickel & Brewer won’t be allowed to represent one of the heirs of oilman H.L. Hunt in a squabble over control of two multibillion-dollar family trusts.
A new judge has scheduled a hearing for Monday to consider a Texas death-row inmate’s request for more information about an alleged affair between the judge and prosecutor in his…
A Texas judge has been suspended for three months for representing a client while on administrative suspension for not paying his bar association dues, prior to assuming the bench.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year making it easier to invalidate patents is having an impact in the Northern District of California and even in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District…
A group of 22 former judges and prosecutors have sent a letter to the governor of Texas seeking a delay of the execution of Charles Dean Hood to allow time…
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