It's that time again – the 85th Texas Legislature is underway in Austin, and a number of bills could affect civil litigation in state courts.

On December 21, 2011 the Office of Management & Budget transmitted its approval of the latest rewrite by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) of its rules governing the number of hours that a driver of a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) may be on duty and operate a CMV.

The Texas Supreme Court recently considered the difference between statutes of repose and statutes of limitation in Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. v. Lenk, 361 S.W.3d 602 (Tex. 2012).

Nothing strikes fear into a lawyer's heart like filing an appeal on the last day. In the old days, the cautious lawyer took the envelope to the clerk's office or post office himself or herself...

It is now standard in almost every case to seek discovery of electronic data.

On November 14, 2016, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a revised version of the Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9.

There are many types of legal claims that employees can bring against an employer.

Should the Church, State or the Courts say whether an employer health plan must provide preventative medical services, including birth control, at no cost to patients?

On January 10, 2013 the Federal Trade Commission issued its Opinion, a long awaited next-step in the arduous journey of In the Matter of POM Wonderful LLC et al to the United States Supreme Court that is provided that POM has enough fight left to continue this battle.

New York City's new sodium warning law received its first official challenge this month.

Healthcare in America is changing.

On June 25, 2012, I was sitting at the American Health Lawyers Association conference with about 1,000 other health care lawyers waiting to hear from the Supreme Court.

The Texas Supreme Court in In re National Lloyd’s Insurance Company, No. 13-076 (Tex. Oct. 31, 2014) recently granted mandamus relief to an insurance company seeking to limit discovery requests by a plaintiff-insured seeking information on claim files similar to her own.

The Supreme Court issued two unanimous opinions making it easier for companies that prevail in baseless patent infringement suits to recover their attorney’s fees.

On December 1, 2016, significant amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure took effect.

Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 91a—a Texas version of a motion to dismiss—was added in 2013 to give parties an efficient way to have baseless claims dismissed at an early stage.

In Torres v. SGE Management, LLC, No. 14-20128 (5th Cir. Sept. 30, 2016), an en banc Fifth Circuit ruled 11-to-5 that the trial court properly certified a class of the victims of an alleged pyramid scheme.

The Texas Supreme Court held that under certain circumstances judicial error may be a superseding cause of the client's damages that relieves the attorney of any liability.

An appeal from a Dallas County trial court is heard by the Dallas Court of Appeals, right? Right. Bexar County by San Antonio, right? Right. That is, unless the answer is "Wrong!"

Cases are rarely reversed for the admission or exclusion of evidence. Reversal because of erroneously admitted or excluded evidence occurs only if the error probably resulted in rendition of an improper judgment.