Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Carrington Coleman lawyers have reached a plea agreement for a former death row inmate and pro bono client who was wrongfully convicted of murdering an infant on Halloween of 2005.
The Andrews Kurth partner wraps up a two-year appointment as national US Tennis Association chair for diversity and inclusion in a couple weeks.
Lawyers across the state are getting involved in pro bono projects to help the migrant children arriving from the border crisis, but Texas’ highest ranking judge says more of them need to step up.
A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that the University of Texas’ use of affirmative action is a fair and constitutionally permissible approach to admitting students.
The bomb blast blew out a wall of the church. Blood and shattered stained glass covered splintered furniture and scorched Bibles. The smell of dynamite still hung in the air. Newly-minted Harvard lawyer John Andrew Martin had driven down 16th Street many times, but now, four African American children were dead. Martin called his bosses at the Justice Department. People around him cried in anguish. The carnage, Martin says, “was sickening.” This is the story of Dallas lawyer John Martin and his journey through the civil rights area
Norton Rose Fulbright’s Emmanuel Obi provides some examples to follow and sheds some insight on what we can do in regard to improving the diversity of the legal profession.
Lawyers from Carrington weren’t looking for an award when they assumed the pro bono representation of a death row inmate. "I didn't even know that award existed," Lyndon Bittle said.
The firm was able to remove an intellectually challenged man off of death row in exchange for life in prison, thus ending 12 years of litigation.
Scores of Texas law firms are helping asylum applicants who can't afford legal counsel to assist in their case.
The historic case determined last year the City of Farmers Branch's election system was unfair to Hispanics and other minorities.
Winstead associate Brittany Byrd has been selected the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers’ Outstanding Young Lawyer for 2013. She’s “shocked” and also “grateful,” especially for the opportunity to bring awareness to certain pro bono projects. But along her path to achievement, Byrd has had to pause and ask, “Why, God?” Yes, she got an answer.
TK's statewide pro bono effort aims to aid the ability of Texas property owners to improve their water conservation and energy efficiency.
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