Houston Legal Links

Originally published by Mary Flood.

Top legal news includes: One of Houston’s most notorious killers Henley has Facebook page; Who’s Tracking the BP Oil Spill Money That’s Supposed to Restore Oyster Reefs?; Jared Woodfill Starts Small in Bid to ‘Take Back’ Control of Texas GOP; Analysis: The Death of Taxes on Illegal Drugs; Local Chef Wrongly Held in Immigrant Detention Center for Two Months; Before ‘affluenza’ case, teen’s family tangled with the law; Traffic stop leads to home with $50K in stolen property; Owners of Heights Tortilla Factory Indicted By Feds for illegally hiring workers; Annise Parker Explains Why She Didn’t Go Full-Throttle On Potholes; Dozens of students hospitalized after carbon-monoxide leak at Beaumont middle school; Prairie View police chief suddenly resigns; CSB chief: West explosion shouldn’t have happened; UT creates ‘Rooney Rule’ to boost leadership diversity & Oil industry throws support behind energy reform bill.

For the water cooler: Arizona governor wants the state out of the 9th Circuit; Revised outlook for growth in lawyer jobs is glum; Job-offer rate for summer associates is at a 10-year high; Megyn Kelly of Fox News handled law firm ‘macho culture’ as a former lawyer; This Hitler-loving, gay-hating Oregon judge is so unethical that he might be a criminal, state panel finds; This Law School Will Pay You To Take The GRE To Save Its U.S. News Rank From The Dreaded LSAT; Disbarment recommended for lawyer who called disciplinary counsel a ‘pimp’ and ‘Oreo’; How Prop 8 Lawyer David Boies Saved Natalie Portman’s Troubled ‘Jane Got a Gun’; Poor, Black Lawyers Lack Work Ethic, Says Legal Recruiter; Is Homophobia Going To Cost This Law School Its Accreditation?; Did school’s restroom policy violate Title IX? 4th Circuit considers transgender teen’s case; The First Step To Being A Great Justice Is Being Humble; Judge threatens to jail lawyer who keeps arguing his client is victim of anti-Muslim hysteria; Scammer using attorney’s name is math-impaired; newbie lawyers also targeted; Retired lawyer handled pro bono case, called opposing counsel ‘lawyer babe,’ ethics complaint says & These top-ranked law schools have cut 1L class sizes by more than 25%.

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

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