Dallas criminal-defense solo C. Tony Wright says he has learned a valuable lesson when it comes to making attorney’s fee agreements: Accept an assignment of settlement money from a client’s unrelated civil suit as payment for services rendered at your own peril.

Administrators of the estates of Joshua Bryant Berry and Robin Perlo Berry, who were killed in an accident in West Texas on July 2, 2011, and the guardian of the Houston’s couple’s three children have filed a strict liability, negligence and breach of warranty suit against Chrysler Group LLC and Chrysler Canada Inc. Richard Mithoff … Read More »

The general counsel of Safeway Inc., a Fortune 100 company, tried to make like Jay Leno and tell a joke at the supermarket chain’s annual meeting. But some folks were not amused. Robert Gordon, GC and chief governance officer, cracked a joke about the two most powerful women in Washington, D.C.?Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. … Read More »

The hot legal question of the day is this: Can employers ask applicants for their Facebook password as part of the hiring process? Michael P. Maslanka offers one piece of advice employers’ lawyers need to share with their clients: Do not ask a job applicant about or investigate matters that are irrelevant to the hiring … Read More »

There can be disturbing consequences for entering an appearance in a politically-charged lawsuit. Just filing a challenge to an ordinance aimed at curbing illegal immigration in a Dallas suburb meant a lawyer for the San Antonio-based Latino civil rights organization MALDEF got the kind of telephone calls no one ever wants to receive.