By Angela Morris | October 30, 2019
Bills to change how Texas elects its judges failed to pass the legislature eight times since 1993, but supporters are optimistic.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | October 29, 2019
Baylor Law School posted the highest pass rate for the July 2019 Texas Bar Examination, while Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law had the lowest rate among Texas' 10 law schools.
By Angela Morris | October 29, 2019
John O. Green, who serves in the Idaho Legislature, has been fighting a condition of pretrial release that banned him from having firearms or weapons, because he claims that he needs weapons to protect himself and his family from wild animals, such as bears, that frequent the rural town where he lives.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | October 29, 2019
Plaintiffs lawyer John M. O'Quinn died in a car accident 10 years ago, and lawyers are still wrapping up the litigation related to his firm and estate. All of his money, including legal fees that continue to be paid today, has gone to charity.
By Karen Sloan | October 29, 2019
New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Virginia are among the many jurisdictions celebrating higher pass rates on the July 2019 bar exam. But it's not certain if the results signal a larger turnaround in bar passage.
By Angela Morris | October 29, 2019
Former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson has joined a high-powered pro bono legal team fighting for state compensation for the wrongful incarceration of Alfred Dewayne Brown, a man who was declared actually innocent of the 2003 murder of a Houston police officer.
By Angela Morris | October 29, 2019
Political forces are aligned against Alfred Dewayne Brown, a man who was declared "actually innocent" after his conviction for murdering a Houston police officer. The Houston Police Officers' Union urged the comptroller and the attorney general to deny Brown's application for state compensation, and after staff of both offices met secretly in June, that's just what happened.
By Angela Morris | October 29, 2019
In addition to urging the denial of wrongful incarceration compensation to Alfred Dewayne Brown, records that show that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office has launched a criminal investigation into one of Brown's pro bono attorneys, even though two local prosecutors dismissed the allegation as unfounded.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | October 28, 2019
The trial, which was overseen by Philadelphia Judge Michael Erdos, was the first case to come before a Philadelphia jury from the litigation focused on inferior vena cava, or IVC, filters.
By Angela Morris | October 28, 2019
A constitutional county court judge in Central Texas was sanctioned for publicly endorsing a candidate, even though the candidate wasn't running for a "public office," because the jurist still lent the prestige of his office to advance the candidate's private interests.
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