Mary Alice Robbins

February 19, 2002 | Law.com

A State Bar of Texas-sponsored continuing legal education course on the issues surrounding the fall of Enron almost collapsed like the energy giant. According to the chair of the State Bar's CLE Committee, an advertisement for the March 1 course was pulled in the middle of a promotional blitz. Several lawyers allege Bar politics played a role in the attempt to derail the class, but others say that's just not so.

By Mary Alice Robbins

7 minute read

October 18, 2006 | National Law Journal

The U.S. Supreme Court could reverse the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals twice in the same death penalty case.

By Mary Alice Robbins

8 minute read

May 06, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

A Dallas judge has given a green light to a whistleblower suit filed by Hurst solo Ginger Weatherspoon,a former assistant Texas attorney general who alleges she was retaliated against and fired after reporting that two supervising attorneys tried "to suborn perjury" from her about a judge.

By Mary Alice Robbins

4 minute read

November 28, 2005 | Law.com

Two prosecutors' dramatic courtroom re-enactment of a woman stabbing her husband to death while he was tied to a bed was supported by the evidence and did not unfairly prejudice the woman's defense, the 14th Court of Appeals held recently.

By Mary Alice Robbins

8 minute read

March 27, 2006 | Law.com

Taxes totaling $320,000 a year -- that's how much a Texas firm with $100 million in gross revenues and 71 percent of its business operations apportioned to the state could face paying under a tax plan that Gov. Rick Perry's Tax Reform Commission is scheduled to unveil March 29.

By Mary Alice Robbins

7 minute read

May 08, 2006 | Law.com

Physician-owned partnerships created to provide gynecological testing or other pathology services qualify for protection under the state's health care liability law, the 5th Court of Appeals held on April 26.

By Mary Alice Robbins

7 minute read

September 14, 2001 | Law.com

The Texas Supreme Court will decide whether Texas Attorney General John Cornyn and three of his former aides must give depositions in a whistleblower suit brought by the former chief regulator of the state's funeral home industry. Cornyn argues that he's entitled to "absolute immunity" from the suit because his constitutionally derived responsibility to issue opinions is "quasi-judicial in nature."

By Mary Alice Robbins

5 minute read

July 24, 2001 | Law.com

The percentage of minority lawyers hired by Austin, Texas' 26 largest law firms edged up this year, but the numbers still are too low, two minority attorney groups say. Of the 1,211 lawyers employed by the 26 firms, 119 -- or 9.8 percent -- are African-American, Hispanic, Asian or Native American, according to a "report card" issued July 16 by the Austin Black Lawyers Association and the Hispanic Bar Association of Austin.

By Mary Alice Robbins

6 minute read

August 19, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Facing the possibility of having to pay twice the benefits available under an Employee Retirement Income Security Act-regulated pension plan, Marathon Oil Corp. turned to Haynes and Boone's labor and employment practice group for help.

By Mary Alice Robbins

4 minute read

May 08, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Dr. Phil's lawyer Chip Babcock (pictured) says defendant Gawker's airing of episode No. 2 before it appeared on the Dr. Phil Show affected the episode's ratings "big time."

By Mary Alice Robbins

3 minute read