When freight loss occurs and the loss exceeds the limits of the motor carrier’s cargo coverage, the motor carrier and the transportation broker typically wind up at odds over who was responsible for determining the value of the shipment for insurance purposes.

The 2015 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure apply to all cases filed on or after December 1, 2015, and to existing cases so far as is "just and practical." Here are the major changes.

Noel Coward had it right in his play Hay Fever, where one character says, "Words.

Your Sunday School teacher always taught you to say your prayers, right? Well, the Supreme Court of Texas recently taught a litigant to say her prayers RIGHT. And the lesson was an expensive one.

Unrepresented litigants file 10% of civil cases in federal courts and an even higher percentage of civil cases in state courts.

In a recent en banc opinion, the Fifth District Court of Appeals held that movants must identify the specific element or elements challenged on a no-evidence summary judgment motion.

Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 39(a) requires joinder of person who is subject to service as a party to the suit if that person's absence would prevent complete relief...

Texas has long clung to a peculiar distinction about when loss-of-use damages are available in suits for damage to personal property.

With an ever increasing arsenal of fee-shifting statutes, most of jury verdicts include attorneys’ fees awards.

In Nath v. Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, the Court considered one of the largest sanctions awards in Texas history.

Most of us have had a few months to get a taste of the new mandatory e-filing rules.

Each legislative session, the Texas Legislature overturns everyone's understanding of the way things work in certain nooks and crannies of the legal world.

Now that e-filing is no longer the exception, but the norm, and lawyers routinely conduct business via email, the speed and efficiency offered by technological advancements is not a luxury but a necessity.

We used to know immediately if an appellate opinion constituted a legal precedent – if it appeared in a printed book, and hadn't been reversed or overruled, it was the law (to one degree or another).

The 84th Legislative Session is upon us. With it comes a host of new bills—some grandiose, some housekeeping. But only a small portion of those introduced will make it past their infancy.

Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs ("TDHCA") has petitioned the highest court to determine if the Fair Housing Act ("FHA") recognizes disparate impact claims.

Long ago Mark Twain observed that "reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." The same could apply to rail trails according to media coverage of a US Supreme Court decision in No. 12-1173, Marvin Brandt Revocable Trust v. U.S

The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a new rule that would extend overtime pay to nearly 5 million additional white-collar salaried workers across the country.

Mark Sessions, a civil litigator with Strasburger & Price in San Antonio, told Bloomberg BNA that cases are managed with the help of senior judges and those visiting from other areas.

Plaintiff alleged that Trans Union, Experian, and Equifax violated the FCRA, the New York FCRA, and New York common law by inaccurately reporting five accounts on his consumer report and by failing to conduct an adequate reinvestigation of those accounts.