Paralegal.edu

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Just over 6 months ago graduation was held in person at South Texas College of Law and 105 paralegal credentials were conferred. In over 40 years as an attorney, his practice areas included civil litigation, employment, insurance defense, contracts, and business law. The commencement address will be presented by Larry D.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Attorneys filed fewer patent suits in district courts in 2023 than in any year for more than a decade, and the amount of America Invents Act petitions at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board fell to a 10-year low as well. The Western District of Texas also lost its place as the most popular patent litigation venue in the U.S.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

“A Conservative Push to Save Ken Paxton; The effort to help the Texas attorney general, whose impeachment trial starts Tuesday, is part of an ongoing struggle over the Republican Party’s future”: J. David Goodman of The New York Times has this report.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the technology industry and blocked a controversial Texas law that bars large social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from removing posts based on the viewpoints they express. When Texas Gov. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fired back, arguing that H.B.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2022

One example of such a case is the one brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James against Teva. State and local governments with lawsuits against Teva—excluding New York, which is pursuing separate litigation—are all potentially party to the settlement Teva announced Tuesday. In the settlement, Teva agreed to pay $4.25

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JURIST

MAY 12, 2021

A judge for the US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on Tuesday, finding that the NRA did not file the petition in good faith.

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LegalReader

JUNE 16, 2022

Failure to warn: Lack of transparency regarding side effects that manufacture was or should have been aware of.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In Texas, filing the petition is followed by a mandatory 60-day waiting period before spouses can be officially divorced.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JUNE 26, 2019

Set against the eclectic backdrop of Austin at the JW Marriott on 2nd Street, this year’s State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting offered a lot to attendees. The State Bar of Texas roped in some heavy hitters to share their knowledge and experience. So much fun covering the 2019 State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 2, 2022

Most attorneys would have loved to have a giant stack of cash when Local Services Ads (LSAs ) debuted. Hiring a great attorney. As a corporate litigator, my father had a few large contingency cases come along and he holds the highest judgment ever awarded in multiple counties in Texas.

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Patently O

JULY 17, 2024

In a recent decision out of the Southern District of Texas, Judge Lee Rosenthal found the patent infringement case brought by VDPP against Volkswagen to qualify for sanctions under the Patent Act 35 U.S.C. § 1927 and its inherent powers to directly sanction VDPP’s attorney William P. The court also relied upon 28 U.S.C.

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LegalReader

MAY 18, 2022

When interviewing potential attorneys for personal injury lawsuits, you must have a set of attributes in mind.

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Law 360

JULY 28, 2022

District Judge Alan Albright threw open the doors of his Waco, Texas, courtroom to patent litigators, a new court policy to randomly assign patent cases across the Western District of Texas shut them, flummoxing attorneys and leaving some firms with new Waco offices rethinking their investments. Even faster than U.S.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2020

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Friday that the state of California has filed to join the US Department of Justice in an antitrust lawsuit against tech giant Google. The lawsuit was filed in October by the federal government, and was joined by 11 states including Texas, Georgia and Florida.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This difficult boss can be an attorney, office manager, or maybe even a paralegal manager. On more than one occasion, I have found myself paired with attorneys (or other supervisors) who have gone through multiple employees prior to my hiring. I have also experienced being hired on to a firm only to have a switch in attorney support.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2021

A first-of-its-kind tool introduced last year to automate the drafting of litigation briefs has been named new product of the year for 2021 by the American Association of Law Libraries. Casetext says it can cut brief-writing time by 76%.

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Above The Law

MAY 7, 2021

Those attorneys must be fast typers. Courthouse News ] * Devin Nunes's attorney has been ordered to pay CNN $21,000 in legal fees for filing frivolous defamation litigation. [ Law and Crime ] * The Attorney General of Texas has unblocked critics on Twitter following a lawsuit. Those attorneys must be fast typers.

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Patently O

JUNE 6, 2021

Editor’s Note: Avery Welker is a rising 2L at Mizzou and likely a future patent attorney. PerDiemCo is a Texas LLC with office space in Marshall, Texas (Eastern District of Texas). and has never visited the office space in Texas. and litigating patents away from D.C. By Avery Welker. Trimble Inc. ,

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Law 360

JULY 18, 2024

Prolific patent litigator Bill Ramey has pushed back against Microsoft's bid to sanction his law firm in Texas federal court, filing his own sanctions motion that claims the tech giant and its attorney "gleefully" filed an improper declaration in the case to defame him and his firm.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Despite an uptick in filings in the Texas Business Court's initial months of operation, the docket remains fairly light amid an apparent a wait-and-see approach from some potential litigants, say attorneys at Norton Rose

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LawSites

MARCH 27, 2024

As it turns out, just a week before she filed her lawsuit, her former company had sued her in federal court in Texas, seeking a declaratory judgment that it had terminated her for cause, and that, as a result, her stock option was also terminated. Read the full text of the Texas complaint. “It is my understanding Ms.

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Patently O

JANUARY 24, 2022

For those unfamiliar with how cases are assigned in district courts, let’s use the Western District of Texas as an example. The Western District of Texas is a vast district, stretching more than 600 miles across from El Paso (on the western limits of the state) to Waco (which is much nearer to Louisiana than New Mexico).

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 19, 2022

My father had a few of these big contingency cases come along — it’s why he holds the highest jury verdicts ever awarded in multiple counties in Texas. As a corporate litigator. The post Understanding Law Firm Profits — And What to Do With Them appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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Patently O

MARCH 7, 2022

Texas attorney Lee Ann Hughes purchased Performance Probiotics, LLC from the company founder Pearcy. At the time of the purchase, Hughes was Pearcy’s attorney – a red flag. Attorney fees of $400k. Hughes , 20-50671, 2022 WL 620238, at *1 (5th Cir. 3, 2022) [ Opinion ]. unauthorized use of the trade secret.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support. million remote proceedings (civil and criminal) from March 2020 to February 2021.

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DigitalParalegalServices

AUGUST 12, 2015

Born and raised in the small town of Graham, just ninety miles outside of Fort Worth, I was deep in the heart of Texas. Located in that square was the Young County courthouse – where I began learning about the intricate workings of the civil litigation process. Springs filled with bluebonnets, falls filled with football – it was home.

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LegalReader

MAY 16, 2021

Paxton says that the Biden administration's efforts to expand Medicaid access to uninsured Texans infringe upon the state's sovereignty.

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LegalReader

MAY 7, 2022

The non-profit State Bar Foundation alleges that Paxton misused his office to support lawsuits propagating election conspiracy theories.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

While Judge Albright and the Western District of Texas continued to hold onto their leads with the highest numbers of filed patent cases, the data revealed distinct drops in their cases in 2022.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JUNE 15, 2022

The State Bar of Texas 2022 Annual Meeting was truly one for the books. State Bar of Texas Podcast – Featured Episodes: The Legal Talk Network was proud to be a part of this event, and had the opportunity to chat with some of this year’s amazing keynote speakers and guests. Jury Decision – Making and the Gen Z Juror.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 18, 2023

Law360 ] * State judge blocks Texas law that barred Houston -- and only Houston -- from running its local elections after the city started electing Black women. [ Raising concerns about litigation from anti-affirmative action forces who are so sure that discrimination doesn't exist that they don't want anyone checking their work.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 15, 2021

. “The policy of this (long-standing) consumer protection law is that no family should lose its shelter, which is necessary for their survival and ability to work,” said Phoenix bankruptcy attorney Diane Drain. ” Tucson attorney David Hameroff agrees. Arizona bankruptcy attorneys are among those who oppose.

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Above The Law

JULY 2, 2021

Yahoo News ] * A Texas lawyer has been disbarred for allegedly taking his client's food stamps and purportedly faking the client's signature. Texas Lawyer ] * The Supreme Court has struck down a California law that required charities to disclose their largest donors. Hope he isn't a legal noob. Guardian ].

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Law 360

MAY 17, 2021

A Texas federal jury’s recent $2.18 billion patent infringement verdict against Intel serves as a stark reminder that parties should promptly focus on damages to reveal a case's worth, identify early settlement opportunities, and conform litigation strategy to the law, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

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