Mary Alice Robbins

August 19, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

When a retired University of Texas at Dallas professor needed an attorney for a patent infringement case, he recalled being impressed as a juror with Jackson Walker partner Robert Latham's handling of a 2007 commercial case.

By Mary Alice Robbins

4 minute read

November 10, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

The Texas Ethics Commission may have overstepped its authority in 2010 when it levied a record $100,000 fine against Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller for multiple omissions in her 2007 and 2008 personal financial statements. According to aletter ruling by 419th District Judge Orlinda Naranjo, the only available penalty under Texas Government Code �571.173 for a violation of a law regarding a personal financial statement is $5,000.

By Mary Alice Robbins

4 minute read

June 10, 2002 | Law.com

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to rehear en banc a panel's 2-1 decision that the Texas Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts program is unconstitutional, increasing pressure for the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case. The decision creates a conflict between the 5th and 9th Circuits on the constitutionality of IOLTA programs, which generate funds to provide civil legal services to the poor.

By Mary Alice Robbins

6 minute read

July 23, 2002 | Law.com

The Texas Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday that a veteran Waco, Texas, judge can't be the Democrats' nominee for a judgeship in November because he voted in the March Republican primary. At issue in the case is the constitutionality of Texas Election Code � 162.015 -- the so-called "sore loser" law -- which prevents a person who votes in one party's primary from being a general election candidate for a different party.

By Mary Alice Robbins

5 minute read

February 17, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

When a Houston jury considers the death-penalty case of a 17-year-old charged with shooting a man to death during a carjacking last year, a camera won't be in the room videotaping those deliberations. A divided Court of Criminal Appeals held on Feb. 12 that the Code of Criminal Procedure "clearly and indisputably" prohibits the videotaping of jury deliberations and the fact that a bill filed in the Texas Senate would more clearly prohibit cameras in the jury room "is of no consequence."

By Mary Alice Robbins

7 minute read

March 18, 2002 | Law.com

The Texas Supreme Court Rules Advisory Committee has recommended that the court change the parental notification rules to make it clear that anyone appointed as guardian ad litem is representing the minor seeking to have an abortion without telling her parents, and not the fetus or the absent parents. The guardians are appointed if a minor exercises the judicial bypass option in Texas' parental notification law.

By Mary Alice Robbins

5 minute read

August 05, 2002 | Law.com

Austin, Texas' largest firms continued to show gains this year in the number of minority lawyers employed. Of the almost 1,200 attorneys employed by the city's 26 largest firms, 126 -- or 10.6 percent -- are black, Hispanic, Asian or Native-American, according to figures compiled by the Hispanic Bar Association of Austin and the Austin Black Lawyers Association. That's up from 9.8 percent in 2001.

By Mary Alice Robbins

5 minute read

November 14, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

The Texas Ethics Commission may have overstepped its authority in 2010 when it levied a record $100,000 fine against Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller for multiple omissions in her 2007 and 2008 personal financial statements.

By Mary Alice Robbins

4 minute read

October 21, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

While helping their company emerge from bankruptcy proceedings, American Airlines Inc.'s General Counsel Gary Kennedy and his legal department have faced a U.S. Department of Justice challenge to American's plan to merge with US Airways, in addition to multibillion-dollar litigation.

By Mary Alice Robbins

6 minute read

October 03, 2006 | National Law Journal

Religion has entered the political fray in a race for an appellate court bench in East Texas: GOP called Democratic nominee "racist."

By Mary Alice Robbins

6 minute read