A fight over fees from about 500 fen-phen lawsuits has been raging in Harris County since January 2008, when Houston plaintiff’s lawyers Charles and Stephen Kirklin and their firm, The Kirklin Law Firm, sued plaintiff’s lawyer George Fleming and his Houston-based firm over millions in fees.

The omnipresent element in SAPCR cases is the child support calculation. Change is coming September 1, 2013. The Office of the Attorney General has fulfilled its obligation by determining that the percentage change in the last six years CPI will increase the net resources ‘cap’ to $8,550, says attorney Bruce Bain.

The 80/20 rule certainly applies to rainmakers — 20 percent of lawyers bring in 80 percent of the business at any given firm, and sometimes more. Why is it that some lawyers just can’t seem to make rain?

After five years of litigation, U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap recently approved of a consent decree that puts an end to an alleged “stop and seize” practice used by defendant law enforcement officers — including a district attorney — that allegedly was used to target minorities traveling through a small East Texas town.

After holding a second hearing on the issue, a visiting judge acquitted Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins of contempt, ruling that the prosecutorial misconduct hearing in which Watkins refused to testify should not have occurred in the first place.