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January 23, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

How to Represent a Bankrupt Plaintiff and Still Get Paid

It is a lawyer's nightmare: learning at the last minute that a well-earned contingent fee has evaporated. When clients declare bankruptcy, counsel who have invested time and money in a client's pre-bankruptcy case risk losing the fruits of their labor.
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October 07, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Gonzales Talks About Advising the President, Circuit Nominations

White House counsel Alberto Gonzales -- a former justice on the Texas Supreme Court -- was in Dallas on Sept. 27 to speak at the Federal Bar Association convention and to students at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. He spoke with Texas Lawyer senior reporter John Council on a number of timely and important topics, including the rejection of Priscilla Owen's nomination to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and whether he may be a candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court.
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March 18, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

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January 28, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Commentary: How Civil Attorneys Can Seek Criminal Justice for Clients

Because of this thin line between a white-collar case appropriate for criminal prosecution and a toxic business deal having civil litigation as its only recourse, civil attorneys need to know what options their clients have in the criminal justice system and how to navigate it properly.
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December 11, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

TL Opinion

Some Texas firms, such as Locke Liddell & Sapp, work hard to bring a happy holiday season to low-income children. And the Texas Trial Lawyers Association could not have found a more deserving recipient of its inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award than Broadus A. Spivey, a past president of TTLA.
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August 11, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

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July 26, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Management Memo: Is Your Firm Creating a Star Culture?

Widening spreads in partner compensation stifle innovation and imperil firms' long-term stability. Shrink the spread or face the fallout.
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February 06, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

What SEC Policy Can Mean for In-Housers

Consider the curious case of Jay Lapine. Between 2003 and 2009, the onetime general counsel of McKesson HBOC Inc. successfully fought off two criminal indictments for financial reporting fraud. Then he settled civil charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission, agreeing to pay a $60,000 penalty and to not practice before the commission or act as an officer or director of a public company for five years. Sounds like a bitter pill to swallow.
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September 24, 2007 | Law.com

Ex Parte Martinez

Raymond DeLeon Martinez presented "constitutionally relevant mitigating evidence" of insanity at his 1989 trial but the jury did not have a vehicle to give this evidence "meaningful consideration" when deliberating whether to give Martinez the death penalty.
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February 22, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

Department of Homeland Security Takes Aim at H-1B Visa Program

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that adjudicates immigration benefits, issued sweeping new guidance on Jan. 8 that limits the ability of many staffing companies to hire foreign professional workers. Many of those companies rely heavily on the H-1B visa category, which allows a company to sponsor foreign professionals to work in the United States for up to six years. As the economy improves, many companies will find it increasingly difficult to hire and retain skilled foreign workers.
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