A Houston-area man has sued Houston criminal-defense attorney Samuel D. Adamo and his firm, alleging he gave the defendants his life savings of $90,000 to pay a cash bond, but they have refused to return $80,000 that wasn’t needed.

General counsel and chief legal officers share various tales of woe about dealing with outside law firms, including one major concern: transactions in which one party pays not only its own legal bill but also the bills of another party. Fortunately, there are ways to manage these third-party legal bills in a more effective manner.

At around 2:00 a.m. today, the Office of the Attorney General filed an emergency motion to stay U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel’s Oct. 28 ruling in federal litigation that pits abortion clinics and three doctors against the state of Texas. The plaintiffs expect to file their response to that OAG motion by the end of … Read More »

Dissatisfied when marketing efforts didn’t bring expected results, an Austin personal injury firm sued a billboard company and an Internet marketing firm but then settled both suits in less than one month.

The case of a man sentenced to life in prison for the death of a 17-month-old child could present the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals with its first opportunity to consider a district court’s recommendation that the man receive a new trial under a recently enacted law.