By Jennifer de Haro | August 31, 2020
From the controversial practice of separating parents from children at the border, ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and building a border wall, Trump has made immigration a major policy priority.
By Antonio U. Allen and Lu Pham | August 31, 2020
Require returning employees to sign a new noncompete that resets the clock. But keep in mind that in Texas and most other states, an employer must give the employee something new (legally known as "consideration") in exchange for the new noncompete agreement.
By Quentin Brogdon | August 30, 2020
COVID-19 poses an unprecedented challenge to our system of law. We will be defined in the years to come by how we meet the challenge. The answer to the challenge is not to implement mandatory online jury trials.
By Charles "Chuck" Bennett | August 30, 2020
It seems clear that jurors do not understand negligence in terms of a legal technicality, which they likely see as a game of gotcha.
By Angela Morris | August 28, 2020
Data shows that civil appellate filings fell by 18% between February and June in Texas' 14 courts of appeal. Lawyers and judges say a lack of final judgments, which can be appealed, is to blame.
By Angela Morris | August 27, 2020
Arguing that no one should get sick or die to settle a commercial real estate dispute, and that a proceeding now would not be safe, plaintiffs have won a continuance of a Sept. 8 jury trial in Houston.
By Amanda Bronstad | August 26, 2020
Bayer, which owns Monsanto, said it agreed in June to pay up to $10.9 billion to resolve Roundup claims "without regard to race or any other demographics." But in a new civil rights lawsuit, attorney Ben Crump said failures to warn fell more heavily on Black farmers with smaller acreage.
By Angela Morris | August 26, 2020
A law firm in Houston can't force an ex-client into arbitration over a fee dispute because a nonlawyer employee misled the client into signing a legal contract, ruled Dallas' Fifth Court of Appeals.
By Kenneth Artz | August 25, 2020
Texas Lawyer spoke recently to William Finegan, a shareholder and leader of the labor and employment practice group at the law firm of Munsch Hardt, about the gig economy, workers, as well as California and Texas.
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By Max Mitchell | August 25, 2020
In a proposed class action lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, two former Pittsburgh Steelers allege that the league has been improperly using race and ethnicity information to undercut their cognitive impairment claims.
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