Mary Alice Robbins

December 20, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

Proposed amendments to the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure include a "plain language" revision of the instructions judges must give prospective jurors and jury members selected for a trial. Kennon Peterson (pictured), the Supreme Court's rules attorney, says the court rewrote the instructions prescribed under Rule 226a "in plain language that jurors are more likely to understand and therefore to follow."

By Mary Alice Robbins

3 minute read

December 11, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

A San Antonio jury has convicted lawyer Mary S. Roberts on five counts of theft stemming from allegations that she helped her lawyer-husband appropriate $155,000 from four men with whom she had affairs in 2001.

By Mary Alice Robbins

2 minute read

November 04, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

A Travis County grand jury indicted a state judge on Oct. 27 for allegedly reporting to the Texas Ethics Commission in March 2002 that he received contributions from 15 people who actually did not give to his campaign.

By Mary Alice Robbins

2 minute read

April 15, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

The State Bar of Texas board has elected Tom Godbold, a partner in Houston's Fulbright & Jaworski, as its next chairman. Godbold defeated Michael J. Black, a shareholder in San Antonio's Burns & Black, in voting during the board's April 8 meeting in Austin.

By Mary Alice Robbins

1 minute read

March 21, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

A state legislator has withdrawn a bill that would have allowed state Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht to sue the state to recover his attorney's fees and legal costs — costs he incurred fighting the State Commission on Judicial Conduct's public admonition of him.

By Mary Alice Robbins

2 minute read

January 04, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Beginning March 1, Texas lawyers will no longer be able to make deals to collect fees just for forwarding cases. That's the effective date the Texas Supreme Court set in a Jan. 28 order approving the amendments to Texas Disciplinary Rule of Conduct 1.04.

By Mary Alice Robbins

2 minute read

March 19, 2010 | Law.com

Two Texas attorneys are among 40 people indicted in connection with an alleged $20 million mortgage fraud involving 114 houses. The federal indictment alleges that Daniel Ayers and Anthony Flores, who owned and operated Ayers & Flores, were part of a group of real estate agents, property finders, mortgage brokers, escrow officers, property appraisers and "straw buyers" who were solicited to obtain money from lending institutions "by making materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises."

By Mary Alice Robbins

3 minute read

December 22, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

The Texas Supreme Court has concluded that a $100,000 fee the Hidalgo County Probate Court awarded to state Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, for serving as guardian ad litem for a minor injured in a 2001 accident is not reasonable.

By Mary Alice Robbins

3 minute read

July 23, 2010 | Daily Business Review

One attorney is trying to collect $1 million from another attorney who appeared on "Dateline NBC" and "challenged anybody" to disprove an alibi for a man on Florida's death row.

By Mary Alice Robbins

3 minute read

April 07, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

James C. "Jim" Ho will replace Ted Cruz. Ho is a 1999 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School who previously served as chief counsel for U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Dallas in 2006.

By Mary Alice Robbins

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