Exactly one week before the start of his attorney disciplinary trial, 277th District Judge Ken Anderson notified Gov. Rick Perry that he was resigning the bench “effective immediately.”

An interlocutory appeal pending before the 9th Court of Appeals in Beaumont has raised the question: Does cheerleaders’ display of religious banners violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment? And foreshadowed another one: Who will pay the legal bills of the cheerleaders who sued the school district after it temporarily banned them from using … Read More »

Four Houston-area women sued David K. Mestemaker of Houston and Cory S. Gomel of Bellaire and their firms, alleging the defendants engaged in “gross malfeasance” when representing them in sexual harassment litigation that ended with a loss at the courthouse.

Women make up 15.9 percent of the 1,701 equity partners at the firms that participated in Texas Lawyer’s 2013 Women & Minorities survey. At four firms, the percentage of women equity partners in Texas exceeds 20 percent. Equity female partners or shareholders at each of the four firms talk about their successful business development techniques.

Less than four hours after a three-judge panel of the 3rd Court of Appeals reversed former U.S. House of Representative Tom Delay’s felony convictions and acquitted him of money laundering and conspiring to money launder, prosecutors from the Travis County District Attorney’s office said they will ask the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to review … Read More »