Friday, November 7, 2014

Houston Legal Links 11/7/14

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Top legal news includes: Oil spill lawyers to defend themselves at hearing; Judge signs orders to return banished sex offenders to Texas; ‘Murderabilia’ dealer booted from Texas prisons, vows to appeal; All systems go for Astros & Rockets on Root launch after CSNH legal hurdles cleared (Chron subsc); Which Texas Law School had the Highest July 2014 Bar Exam Pass Rate? (Texas Lawyer); Judge Orders Robert S. Bennett to Pay Money to Former Firm (Texas Lawyer); Deputy accused of unplugging camera to hide groping incident; Petition to change city’s homeless feeding law comes up short (Chron subsc); Family asks robbers to turn themselves in, offers to pay for their education; Galveston PD investigating possible link between two baby deaths; Texas Girl Was Taken Away From Parents Because They Smoked Pot, Only To Be Killed in Foster Care; Texas tops nation in teacher sex cases; Court reaffirms BP is liable in Gulf oil spill; Perry Attorneys Try to Disqualify Prosecutor; Texas prisons by the numbers & In Oil Country, One Town Peers Beyond the Boom.


For the water cooler: 10 Tips For Managing Partners From A Managing Partner Turned General Counsel; How Did Biglaw Do In The Third Quarter Of 2014?; Seyfarth partner pursues a new career as a high school teacher; Is an Uber ride covered if an accident occurs? Insurance representatives are dubious; Which Law School Has Two Beauty Queens Competing For The Same Crown?; Lawyer sanctioned $1M for allowing smoking reference in med-mal trial; Interpreters are still lacking in Los Angeles civil cases, legal-aid advocates say; Man who posted video of 24-minute drive on 26-mile NYC loop is convicted of reckless endangerment; GPS device placed by car dealership led to suspect in woman’s abduction; U.S. Pat. No. 8605152: Method for Filming a Yoga Class; UK intelligence may have eavesdropped for years on lawyer-client communications, documents show; Lawyer accused of faking case numbers, defendants and work to get paid $328K is guilty of theft; Ex-Navy SEAL sues lawyer, says bad advice about best-selling Osama bin Laden book cost him millions & Judge admonished for rude remarks; he called litigants a ‘train wreck’ and a ‘total human disaster.’


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