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AG Asks Texas Firms for a Loan
In a market where wet-behind-the ears associates at large Texas firms are paid base salaries of $110,000, the Office of the Attorney General can't compete for lawyers with money. So the agency is trying to lure associates out of the private market by offering what it can -- courtroom experience and the glamour of public service.Companies fighting patent infringement claims once went three frustrating years without a single jury win in the Eastern District of Texas. So far this year, they've prevailed at trial seven times, far eclipsing the number of plaintiffs wins. What gives?
Court Allows Nonclients to Sue Lawyers
Making an end run around the privity rule, the Texas Supreme Court has expanded the scope of lawyers' liability for negligence in an opinion some experts predict will spawn substantial litigation and possibly even drive up malpractice rates. With the opinion, the court clarified a murky area of law.Impact Player of the Year: Mike Caddell, Waco Warrior
When Mike Caddell filed a suit five years ago against the federal government on behalf of the Branch Davidian survivors over the siege on the Mount Carmel, Texas compound, even his friends thought he was out of his mind. But after an investment of some $3.5 million in time and resources, Caddell's case caused what a previous criminal trial and congressional hearings couldn't -- a hole in the government's denials that they had no complicity in the massive loss of life at Waco.Fen-Phen Talks Don't Deter Texans
Texas plaintiffs lawyers handling fen-phen suits say recent settlement overtures by American Home Products Corp. will not distract them from taking suits to trial in Texas this summer and getting the nation's first fen-phen verdict. Eight Texas plaintiffs lawyers say they are open to talking with the mass-tort litigation's primary defendant, American Home Products, about settling their individual suits, but they aren't expecting any speedy national settlement.Trending Stories
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