On Sept. 19, the Texas Lawyer editorial department hosted a roundtable discussion in Collin County, “Domestic Relations: How to Make Your Case in Family Court.” The judges’ discussion covered e-filing, domicile restrictions, the enforcement of morality clauses and their thoughts on social media.

Seven Texas firms earned spots on the 2013 Patent Litigation Survey performed by Texas Lawyer affiliate Corporate Counsel.

A mother and her daughter have filed a civil lawsuit against a state district judge, alleging he was negligent in failing to report the girl’s outcry of sexual abuse by a registered sex offender to the police — an abuser who they allege later pleaded guilty to further assaulting the girl and murdering her step-grandmother.

Labeling support staff as nonprofessionals is insulting and tarnishes your firm’s reputation, says commentator Jeffrey Brandt.

In the first quarter of each year, the approximately 6,000 employees of San Antonio-based Tesoro Corp. have to certify that they don?t know of any problems that could get the corporation in hot water. If they know of problems, the employees are supposed to report them through the certification-of-compliance program.