Shame and its half-brother, guilt, live in the close, shadowy quarters of the human soul. They often don’t know which of them should step forward into the light of day, but they are always that soul’s uninvited guests. And that soul is all of us, says professional coach and psychotherapist James Dolan.

There are two types of employment cases: those teaching empowerment and those illuminating disaster. Let’s talk disaster, the stuff that gets burned into our neural pathways, imparting lessons learned and never forgotten.

With e-discovery, electronic documents can be produced in a multitude of forms, and inadvertence or gamesmanship by producing parties can result in court-ordered reproduction of an entire document production, potentially doubling e-discovery costs. Nowhere is this truer than with respect to time standards.

Jarvis V. Hollingsworth, a partner in the Houston office of Bracewell & Giuliani, has been elected chairman of the University of Houston System board of regents. Plus more new positions, appointments, awards and honors.

The question of whether George Fleming and his law firm can charge some of its clients millions of dollars for the cost of screening out non-clients in a mass tort case is going to require further litigation, per a recent opinion from Houston’s 14th Court of Appeals.