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Senior reporter John Council is a native Texan who covers litigation and appellate courts in his home state. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter: @john_council
August 17, 2018 | Legaltech News
An opinion from the State Bar of Texas' Professional Ethics Committee essentially blessed lawyers' use of attorney internet forums to get answers to tricky legal questions, as long as the query does not give up too much about their client's identity.
By John Council
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August 16, 2018 | Texas Lawyer
An opinion from the State Bar of Texas' Professional Ethics Committee essentially blessed lawyers' use of attorney internet forums to get answers to tricky legal questions, as long as the query does not give up too much about their client's identity.
By John Council
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August 15, 2018 | Texas Lawyer
According to the recent decision by Houston's First Court of Appeals, journalist and documentary filmmaker Christine Cole Biederman is seeking to unseal the 1997 deposition testimony Baron & Budd founder Russell Budd gave about the discoverability of the controversial memo.
By John Council
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August 14, 2018 | Texas Lawyer
A special court of review has approved the public admonishment of a former Houston state district court judge who ordered a mentally ill sexual assault victim jailed in order to secure her testimony at trial, a move that led to the woman being attacked by an inmate while in custody.
By John Council
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August 13, 2018 | Texas Lawyer
In what appears to be a novel move in Texas employment litigation, two Houston lawyers are seeking to keep a sexual harassment case out of arbitration by arguing that resolving the legal dispute in private violates public policy in the #MeToo era.
By John Council
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August 9, 2018 | Texas Lawyer
“The politics really didn't matter,” Baron & Budd partner Scott Simmer added. “This was about protecting the Texas Medicaid program.”
By John Council
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August 8, 2018 | Daily Business Review
Pregnant litigators already have enough to worry about without trial dates getting in the way of due dates, a Houston judge decided.State District…
By John Council
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August 8, 2018 | Texas Lawyer
Judge Ravi Sandill said he came up with the idea after reading about a pregnant Florida lawyer whose motion for continuance sparked controversy last month after her opposing counsel objected to it.
By John Council
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August 7, 2018 | The Recorder
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled in a split decision that a U.S. Border Patrol agent can be sued after he shot and killed a Mexican teenager while standing on American soil.
By John Council
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August 6, 2018 | Texas Lawyer
After ruling that a paralegal's alleged deal to split fees with a Houston lawyer for clients he brought in connection with the 2010 BP Deepwater…
By John Council
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