Ex-Prosecutor Claims DA Fired Him for Being White

A former prosecutor in the Dallas County district attorney’s office has filed a suit that contends he was fired because he was white.

Rick Jackson, who headed the organized crime…

Nov 7, 2007 7:10 PM CST

Under Pressure, Texas Court Allows E-Mail Pleadings

The highest criminal court in Texas, facing a storm of criticism for failing to accept an emergency death penalty appeal 20 minutes after closing time, will now accept some motions…

Nov 7, 2007 12:43 PM CST

Joseph Jamail Denies Feud With John O’Quinn

Houston plaintiffs lawyer Joseph Jamail says any talk of a feud between him and the lawyer he sued on behalf of breast implant plaintiffs is a lot of rubbish.

Jamail…

Nov 6, 2007 12:46 PM CST

Lawyer’s Trial Boycott Strategy Worked

Texas’ highest criminal appeals court has handed a lawyer who boycotted his client’s trial the ruling he desired.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled in a 5-4 Nov 5, 2007 3:45 PM CST

Lawyer Chastises Supreme Court for Allowing TX Execution

A lawyer for the inmate executed after a Texas judge would not keep the courthouse doors open for his emergency petition says many people share the blame “for this preventable…

Nov 1, 2007 1:29 PM CDT

TX Prosecutor Cites Execution Moratorium

In the latest example of an apparent death penalty moratorium being voluntarily imposed in states throughout the country, a Texas prosecutor in the county with the highest number of death…

Oct 31, 2007 10:28 PM CDT

Wildfire Volunteer Lawyers Can Sue Gov’t, Even FEMA

Volunteer lawyers who help victims of the recent Southern California wildfires will no longer be restricted in the kinds of lawsuits they can bring on behalf of their clients. Now…

Oct 29, 2007 8:15 PM CDT

Marketers Sued for Mailings to Bump Seniors from No-Call List

Several states are suing insurance marketers over their attempts to bypass a ban on phone solicitation by mailings to seniors.

The marketers are sending mail to seniors asking them to…

Oct 26, 2007 1:35 PM CDT

Owen Wilson Eats Lawyers’ Cookies and Runs

Actor Owen Wilson (Wedding Crashers, You, Me and Dupree, and the big-screen remake of Starsky & Hutch) had a hankering for a snack, and the American Bar Association was only…

Oct 25, 2007 6:03 PM CDT

Bad Police Lab Work Is Good News for 19 TX Inmates

Nineteen Texas inmates have received an offer of a free lawyer to review whether they were wrongfully convicted because of shoddy blood analysis work.

The offer is a result of…

Oct 23, 2007 1:23 PM CDT

Texas PI Practice Opens LA Office

A 28-lawyer Texas personal injury firm is establishing an outpost in Los Angeles.

The Lanier Firm, founded by W. Mark Lanier in 1990, will initially focus three lawyers on its…

Oct 18, 2007 5:16 PM CDT

Judge Targeted for Refusing After-Hours Lethal Injection Appeal

Twenty lawyers have filed an ethics complaint against the presiding judge of Texas’ top criminal court contending she should have kept the court open past 5 p.m. to accept an…

Oct 11, 2007 4:42 PM CDT

Lawyer’s TV Ad Claims Rival is Nonlawyer

A Texas personal injury lawyer has paid for TV ads asserting that a partner in a Corpus Christi law group is not a lawyer.

The lawyer in the ad, Thomas…

Oct 10, 2007 1:52 PM CDT

TX Firm Cuts Billable Requirements

A Dallas-based law firm is cutting billable-hour requirements to give new associates more time for training.

Strasburger & Price says associates need only work 1,600 hours the first year at…

Oct 9, 2007 12:24 PM CDT

TX Law Firm Dodges $1.4 M Emotional Distress Award

The Law Offices of Windle Turley saw the tables turned when an ex-client won a $1.4 million judgment for emotional distress after the firm sued him for legal fees.

Now…

Oct 8, 2007 12:24 PM CDT