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Appellate Procedure to Secure Finality of Appealed Order
Often trial judges sign orders that are not final either because they fail to dispose of all parties and issues before the court, or the written order fails to reflect…
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Discovery of Trade Secrets – Mandamus Granted in Dallas COA
Few writs of mandamus are granted in Dallas, so when I see one in the daily case updates I like to check the opinion out. I was glad I did…
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Are we about to get new net worth discovery rules (finally)?
A few months back, I wrote about a mandamus opinion from the Houston Fourteenth Court of Appeals, involving discovery of net worth. The majority and concurring opinions were groundbreaking in terms of…
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Appellate Continuing Education
The Dallas Bar Association's Appellate Law Section is having its monthly CLE luncheon on Thursday, June 17th at Noon at the Belo Mansion. This month's speaker is K&L Gates attorney…
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Get on board with e-briefs
By Byron Henry
With e-filing in the court of appeals right around the corner, there was a lot of talk about technology and e-briefs at the UT appellate CLE earlier this month. Some Texas Supreme Court…
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Tolling of Legal Malpractice Claim Survives Remand
By Byron Henry
The Dallas Court of Appeals recently held that the statute of limitations is tolled in a legal malpractice case throughout the underlying case including the appeal, remand, and any new trial, and subsequent appellate…
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Remedy for Judicial Foreclosure
It's been a couple weeks since my last post--thanks to a bunch of deadlines. Here's a little ditty I noticed discussing judicial foreclosures, and it got me to thinking up…
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Disqualification of Former Appeals Court Justice and her Law Firm
The San Antonio Court of Appeals recently disqualified former court of appeals Justice Sarah Duncan and her law firm--Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP--from representing a Relator in an original…
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Justice O’Neill to leave the bench June 20
Although we have known since last year that Justice Harriett O'Neill did not intend to seek re-election in 2010, she had not yet announced when she would leave the bench. …
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Diamonds are a girl’s best friend
When Leland Dykes proposed to his girlfriend, Pepper Lee, he did so with a $26,000 diamond engagement ring in tow. He also bought a house for Pepper and put it in…