Texas trial lawyers whose litigation strategies include drumming up media attention about their cases should pay attention to a recent Texas Supreme Court opinion.

In the case, Landry’s Inc. v. Animal Legal Defense Fund, the high court revived a defamation lawsuit against an attorney and her firm and ruled that legal doctrines—the attorney immunity doctrine and the judicial proceedings privilege—would not make lawyers immune from litigation filed by non-clients who alleged that statements they made to the press were defamatory.