Thursday, February 11, 2016

Houston Legal Links

Originally published by Mary Flood.

Top legal news includes: Another Sheriff’s Deputy Fired, Accused of Misconduct in Deputy Goforth Murder Investigation; State Bar Will Investigate Paxton for Conduct After Marriage Ruling; Ex-juror accuses Montgomery County Seiler judge of misusing personal information (Chron subsc); Grand Jury Indicts Guard for Punching UH Fans Who Stormed Field; With Clean Power Plan Ruling, Texas Dodges Climate Action; Jury awards $54 million to dead Kyle Field construction worker’s family; Families of Firefighters Killed in 2013 Southwest Inn Blaze Sue Motorola; Ex-Client Defends $1.29M Verdict Against DLA Piper at SCOTX (Texas Lawyer); Austin Businessman Sues Andrews Kurth for Legal Malpractice (Texas Lawyer); Clinton will campaign with Sandra Bland’s mom; Commissioners urge audit of gun supply of Waller sheriff; Commissioner: Waller County landfill plan is ‘dead’; Man Sues Houston Lawyers Over Handling of Bill of Review (Texas Lawyer); Travis County Assistant District Attorney arrested for DWI; Police: Texas dad abandons autistic son for strip club; Woman leads police on chase in stolen ambulance; Do Texas Prison Reforms for Transgender Inmates Go Far Enough?; Judge orders release of PAC’s records in Pasadena voting-rights case (Chron subsc); Alleged killer of deputy to be moved to mental hospital within days; Texas authorities make another big cockfighting bust; Obama vows to press ahead on Clean Power Plan after setback; Yellen: Oil bust aids U.S. economy & OPEC eyes another drop in Mexican crude production, further upside for Canada.

For the water cooler: Former general counsel gets 18 months for stealing $2.6M from company account; Suit alleges Blank Rome partner was forced out due to LGBT animus, desire to steal his clients; Law firms collect larger capital contributions and are slower to repay departing partners; Bank worker saves law firm from $73K loss by blocking unauthorized account transfers; Back In The Race: The High Paying Job You Had In The Past Might Make You Unemployable In The Future; These common mistakes can lead to lawyer ethics complaints; Feds announce ‘Operation Cocoon,’ hoping to curtail use of unwitting seniors as drug mules; Lawyer postpones boat and retirement to fund college for 26 kindergarteners; Pepper Hamilton, Project Attorney Resolve ADA Claim; 2 dead after law office shooting near courthouse; suspect is in custody; Illinois bill would bar posting of fight videos with intent to condone violence; Judge refuses to block law requiring crisis pregnancy centers to provide abortion information; DOJ sues Ferguson one day after it sought changes in proposed policing pact; Bill Cosby’s lawyer is dismissed from suit claiming denials of Cosby rape claim were defamatory & The People V. O.J. Simpson: Episode 2 REVIEW.

Curated by Texas Bar Today. Follow us on Twitter @texasbartoday.



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