It is rare to see the Texas Trial Lawyers Association and Texans for Lawsuit Reform on the same side of an issue. But in the legislative session that ended June 1, both TTLA and TLR supported bills that would have created a civil cause of action for barratry. Despite the two groups’ support, however, the legislation failed.
On May 30, a House-Senate conference committee stripped H.B. 148 of Senate amendments that would have enabled clients to file civil suits against their lawyers for engaging in barratry. State Rep. Todd Smith, R-Euless, H.B. 148′s author, says the conference committee took that action because the Senate amendments were not germane to the bill.
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