Electronically filing court documents could get much less expensive if Gov. Rick Perry signs a bill that the Legislature sent to him on May 20.

Dallas’ 5th Court of Appeals has started the discussion on what constitutes bias when a trial court judge uses Facebook and is “friends” with someone closely connected to a case he hears. Alan Taggart, a McKinney solo, brought the issue to the 5th Court on behalf of his client.

A first for the Houston Bar Association (HBA) occurred on May 16, when David A. Chaumette became its president. Chaumette, founding partner of Sugar Land-based Chaumette PLLC, is the HBA’s first African-American president in its 143-year history.

Daniella Landers, a partner in Sutherland Asbill & Brennan in Houston, is working pro bono with a group of guest workers from India who filed a civil rights lawsuit on May 21 against their former employer and others over working conditions at a plant in Orange and how they were recruited.

In a contest between confidentiality for complaints against judges and scrutiny by a legislative commission, lawmakers have sided with sunshine in Sunset review.