Monday, October 3, 2016

Houston Legal Links

Originally published by Mary Flood.

Top legal news includes: Texas withdraws from federal refugee resettlement program; Violent homicide rate spike prompts more Houston police OT; New System Allows OSHA to Issue Big Fines to Houston Machine Company; Who are the ‘doubly invisible’ immigrants? (Chron subsc); The Weirdest Lawsuits in Recent Houston Memory; White Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter face off outside Houston’s Anti-Defamation League; 15 Lawyers Disciplined on September List; The Belles of the Ball: Bankruptcy Lawyers (Texas Lawyer); Law Firm Mergers Hold Steady in 2016, Driven by Smaller Deals (Texas Lawyer); The Texas Supreme Court Again Finishes Its Term With No Backlog (Texas Lawyer); Houston Mayor Turner Tasks City Crews With Cleaning Up Underpasses Where The; Homeless Live; New HPD Body Cam Policy Would Likely Have Captured Alva Braziel Shooting; Baylor sends aspiring psychiatrists to new classroom – Harris County Jail (Chron subsc); Back in Houston, Khans recount a warm welcome; Paxton Loses Last-Minute Bid to Stop Federal Internet Transition; U.S. probes Chesapeake Energy over possible antitrust violations; City development zones face scrutiny for trapping tax revenues (Chron subsc); Houston taxi driver accused of smuggling illegal immigrants; Texas Officials Want Help to Investigate Student-Teacher Relationships; A Look at Texas’ History of Laws Suppressing Minority Voters (Audio); To Help Rehabilitate Juveniles, Texas Keeping Them Closer to Home; New Texas Health Executive Will Oversee Abstinence, Abortion Programs; Police investigate graphic footage of Central Texas youths setting dog on fire & Dallas mayor proposes new agency to combat homelessness.

For the water cooler: Florida Supreme Court approves mandatory tech CLE classes for lawyers; What Election 2016 Could Mean For The Supreme Court; Harvard law grad pleads guilty to kidnapping in case once considered a hoax; Is LegalZoom Ruining The Legal Profession Or Enhancing It?; Are millennials job hoppers? In-house lawyers vary on the answer based on their generation; Partner Leaves Prestigious Biglaw Firm To Become Division III Football Coach; 5 CLEs For The Aspiring POTUS; Corporate Lawyer The Sole Fatality In Hoboken Train Crash; Alabama chief justice is blocked from office for a second time; Pennsylvania supremes allow suit alleging inadequate funding for public defender office; Former general counsel pleads guilty to robbing bank; he had been out of work & SCOTUS accepts case of autistic child to rule on education benefits for kids with disabilities.

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



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