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Lawyers Rebuild Practices in Year Since Downtown Tyler Fire
Three attorneys who lost their offices in a Feb. 2, 2009, fire that swept through a row of historic buildings located behind the Smith County Courthouse have spent the past year rebuilding their practices. Although the buildings can no longer be used for offices, the county plans eventually to build a criminal justice center on the property. The lawyers lost files, furniture, equipment and treasured memorabilia.Texas Counsel Share Their 2010 New Year's Resolutions
Many Texas attorneys are aiming high for 2010, at least according to the New Year's resolutions they shared at the request of Texas Lawyer. Karen Gren Johnson wants to stay on track with her trainer, Brian Wice wants to write a true-crime blockbuster, and Anthony Lowenberg files his objections to the request while demanding "the execution of a mutually agreeable protective order." Nichole Dotson-Olajuwon, Bruce A. Campbell, Walter B. Huffman, D. Todd Smith, Martha Dickie and Paul M. Lanagan reveal their resolutions, too.The Search Is on for a UNT College of Law Dean
On Sept. 14, University of North Texas System Chancellor Lee Jackson announced that he has selected a committee to help find a dean for the soon-to-be operational UNT College of Law. The search committee co-chairs are U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade of the Northern District of Texas; Marcos Ronquillo, managing partner of Dallas' Godwin Ronquillo; and DeMetris Sampson, a partner in the Dallas office of Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson.How to Build and Manage Your Own Law Practice
Once an attorney realizes that he or she wants to open her own practice, the attorney must consider not only the glamorous concepts associated with being a successful attorney, but also the realistic concepts of hard work, long days and unexpected tribulations that line the path to success.Three Sites on Short List for Austin Federal Courthouse
The government's search for a site to build a new federal courthouse in downtown Austin has stirred up officials at two museums. Neil Landers, site acquisition specialist for the General Services Administration in Fort Worth, says three sites are on the government's list for the approximately $62 million courthouse project. A building on one of the sites houses the Austin Children's Museum, and another property on the list is the future site of the Austin Art Museum, Landers says.
Phillips' Court: From Ridiculed To Respected
Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Phillips, who guided the state's highest civil court through the troubling times of the late 1980s, when a TV show questioned the propriety of lawyers' high-dollar giving to justices, says he'll leave the court with a much better image when he steps down in September.
Special Report: Litigation and E-Discovery
Electronic discovery has created new traps and pitfalls in document production, warns Daniel R. Smith. But, armed with some best practices on handling electronic records, litigators can proceed with confidence. Also in this special report: "How to Authenticate Social Networking Sites" by Joshua A. Norris and Krystal Pfluger Scott, "Five Deadlines Every Lawyer Should Calendar" by Barbara Nicholas, "How to Use Databases to Find Key Evidence" by Craig Ball and "Backup Tapes: Inaccessible No More" by Tom O'Connor.
Texas Tech Tops State's Law Schools in July Bar Pass Rates
Texas Tech University School of Law graduates hit a bittersweet note on the July 2009 Texas bar exam. Of the Lubbock school's first-time test-takers, 94.52 percent passed. That's the highest percent passing rate on the July exam among the nine American Bar Association-accredited law schools in Texas. Walter Huffman (pictured) is dean of the law school at Texas Tech.Huffington Bloggers Lose Bid to Sue AOL for Compensation
Unpaid bloggers to the TheHuffingtonPost.com who claimed the company concealed data on the money the website earned from their posts have lost their bid to recover more than $100 million in damages.Trending Stories
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