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  • Texas Lawyer | Expert Opinion

    Lawyers Must Support the Independence of Our Nation's Judiciary

    By Herbert B. Dixon Jr | October 10, 2017

    Fair, impartial and independent courts are necessary to maintain the American way of life.

  • Texas Lawyer

    The Big Business of Divorce

    By John Roach & Laura Roach | August 1, 2016

    Divorce is big business. In fact, it's a $50-$175 billion business compared to the wedding industry which is estimated to generate just $40-$50 billion annually. Why is divorce big business? J

  • Texas Lawyer

    TL Opinion

    October 27, 2003

    YeaFund-raising efforts for legal aid to low-income Texans should get a boost from a new campaign. The Texas Office of the Attorney General has partnered with the Texas Supreme

  • Texas Lawyer

    TL Opinion

    October 13, 2003

    bYEAIn a 2-1 decision on Oct. 9, Austin's 3rd Court of Appeals displayed common sense by reversing a man's conviction for disorderly conduct based on allegations he made an obsce

  • Texas Lawyer

    TL Opinion

    October 20, 2003

    YeaWhen a group of angry people showed up at a monthly meeting of Tarrant County criminal district court judges on Oct. 15, they had plenty of reason to be mad. Some wanted the

  • Texas Lawyer

    The Financial End of the Affair

    By Glenn M. Cooper | May 31, 2004

    Television and movies aside, the No. 1 tool of the divorce lawyer's trade is not the private eye returning to the tryst site at dawn to watch the errant spouse sneak home or snapping the fuzzy

  • Texas Lawyer

    Discrimination in the Name of Diversity?

    By Roger Clegg | September 22, 2003

    In her opinion for the U.S. Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stressed that the "educational benefits that flow from student body diversity" are "not th

  • Texas Lawyer

    Create Discipline Systems That Engender Trust and Respect

    By James C. Turner and Suzanne M. Mishkin | September 15, 2003

    A Dallas construction worker paid $2,000 to a Texas lawyer who then failed to pursue his auto accident claim, but when the worker contacted the State Bar of Texas for help, he says he was told

  • Texas Lawyer

    Fears, Facts on Frivolous Suits and Runaway Juries

    By Max Freeman | September 8, 2003

    As a defense lawyer since 1979, and having represented doctors and hospitals in malpractice actions for the better part of the last 20 years, Proposition 12 is just wrong, as are Dick Trabulsi

  • Texas Lawyer

    The Agony of (De)feet

    By Tom Alleman | October 27, 2003

    Our public radio station has a locally produced phone-in talk show every day from noon until 2 p.m. It's a marked improvement over other nationally produced efforts in the genre in that the ho

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