January 11, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
Supreme Court Revisits Immigration DetentionToday's Supreme Court oral arguments present cases that are fundamentally about the reasonable outer limits for immigration detention. The Supreme Court has an opportunity to help ensure that the United States has a fundamental fairness in immigration cases that far too few nations have.
By Aron Solomon
6 minute read
January 10, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
Juvenile Sex Offender Registration: Applying the 'Learned Treatise' Exception to the Hearsay RuleWhat's 'fair' for a juvenile offender who is over the age of 14 and who may be required to register as a sexual offender? The juvenile court wields great power in such cases, and a juvenile offender may carry the onus of being a predator long into adulthood, when warranted.
By Elisa M. Reiter and Daniel Pollack
7 minute read
January 06, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
Texas Takeaways: For a Successful Marketing Year, Consistency Is Better Than 'Bursts of Speed'It's not bursts of speed that win the day in legal marketing, it's consistency.
By Kenneth Artz
4 minute read
January 05, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
Collaborative Compliance: Tax and Employment – Old Issues, New Lens"When an employee works from home, or from anywhere other than the employer's facility or dedicated office space, especially when the remote work takes place in a state that is different from where the employer's facility or office is located, a myriad of tax and employment issues arise... "
By Timothy R. Wagner and Jennifer L. Anderson
9 minute read
January 05, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
State Courts are Refining the Concept of 'Psychological Parent'In an era where it takes a village to raise a child, should Congress and State legislators take further action to assure that psychological parents also have legal rights?
By Elisa Reiter and Daniel Pollack
15 minute read
January 04, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
Why a Texas District Court Ruled That Religious Employers Are Exempt From Title VII's Prohibition of Sex Discrimination Against LGBTQ EmployeesBraidwood asserted that its constitutional right of free association, which includes the right to not associate, compels an exemption from Title VII.
By Robert W. Small
15 minute read
January 04, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
The Five Most Important Marketing Steps You Can Take to Start 2022"The key to becoming a thought leader in the law is to pick your places and pick your battles. It's much better to become an expert in one of your areas of practice and speak extensively about certain key issues than it is to be a general legal expert."
By Jill Marie Wilson
6 minute read
December 28, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
Texas Real Estate Outlook: Boom Unlikely to Bust in 2022"The big picture for 2022 is that Austin will continue its meteoric rise. Job growth from employers expanding or moving to Austin, such as Oracle, Facebook, Apple, Tesla and Samsung, is driving housing and other commercial real estate development."
By Steve Martens, Brad Lowry, Ginger Webber, Lewis Kasner and Andrew Baumgardner
12 minute read
December 28, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
Patent Litigation 2021: A Year in Review"... Judge Albright overwhelmingly received the most new patent cases of any U.S. judge, presiding over nearly a quarter of all patent cases filed during the year."
By Aimee Fagan
6 minute read
December 23, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
Presents Courtesy of the Texas Supreme Court"There are lots of interesting cases that our court will hear in the New Year. A nice reminder that our common law heritage develops the law through trials and tribulations, pushed forth by the guidance of good, solid, well trained lawyers."
By Micheal P. Maslanka
9 minute read