One day after stepping off the bench, former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson announced today that he’s joining a small Texas-based boutique appellate firm that will now be named Alexander Dubose Jefferson & Townsend.

Being a partner in a large Texas law firm is the pinnacle of status and salary, right? Not according to the results of this year’s annual Corporate Roster. Compensation for general counsel continues to far exceed what partners in large Texas firms make.

The Travis County District Attorney’s Public Integrity Unit will shrink, but it will live another year. That’s after local funding kicked in on Oct. 1 to replace the expired state funding that Gov. Rick Perry vetoed in June. The leaner unit will no longer accept statewide cases, instead focusing on prosecuting offenses that occur in … Read More »

A retired doctor in Austin is targeting a second law firm in a suit he first filed against his longtime attorney and firm. The new defendant is Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Peace, which represented Dr. Glenn M. Haluska in an underlying probate suit that pitted the doctor against his two children. Haluska alleges that Vorys … Read More »

In 2015, three new judges will take seats on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. It will be the first time since 1997 that the nine-member CCA has experienced that large of a turnover.