Adolfo Pesquera

October 13, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

The law firm's award of $83,509 for attorney fees was preserved, but not its bid to collect $117,689 for expenses.

By Adolfo Pesquera

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October 12, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"When people get involved in the bar, it becomes a community and a family of its own. Members build lasting friendships and become lifelong friends," Dallas Bar Association President Cheryl Camin Murray said.

By Adolfo Pesquera

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October 11, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

The trial court found Victor Ybarra's testimony uncredible; the testimony of an interested witness raises a fact issue, and whether to credit that testimony is a question for the factfinder, Justice Gordon Goodman noted in his dissent.

By Adolfo Pesquera

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October 10, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

HB 2384 codified a practice that was already in place, but the premise that judicial education was not already mandatory was something of a myth, 124th District Court Judge Alfonso Charles said.

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October 09, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"Clark—who was in a supervisory position as PSE's Head of Northeast Trading and later as PSE's President—steered natural gas block trading business to (the third party) and others," the complaint alleges.

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October 09, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"Appellants' arguments that Texas law, not federal bankruptcy law, controls are incorrect. We find the pre-petition payment doesn't affect the debtor's equitable interest in them at the time the petition was filed," wrote Fifth Circuit Judge Stephen A. Higginson.

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October 06, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

In one scheme, the attorney opened trustee accounts with client funds and simply moved the money to his own accounts, rather than using the funds for the benefit of the trust, prosecutors say.

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October 06, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

Texas residents vote to elect the judges in their county, but docket equalization authorizes cases and controversies be reassigned to far-away appellate panels, "without the assent or input of the voters," plaintiff counsel James Pikl argues.

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read

October 05, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

In examining the 2017 Texas Prompt Payment and Claims Act, the Fifth Circuit decided it could not interpret the law and asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the issue.

By Adolfo Pesquera

5 minute read

October 04, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

The facts of the underlying case involved a couple, Clyde and Dorothy Burt of Cleburne, who sold their residence to their daughter and were living in a rental before going to a nursing home. They then purchased a 50% interest in the home sold to the daughter, but the commission refused to recognize it as their home.

By Adolfo Pesquera

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