If you’re a Texas practitioner with strong opinions about citation form, now’s your chance to be heard.
The Texas Law Review Editorial Board is gathering feedback for the next edition of Texas Rules of Form: The Greenbook and has opened a public comment period. The Editorial Board and its Greenbook Committee have specifically invited Texas
The Texas Supreme Court has directed the Supreme Court Advisory Committee (known as SCAC) to study and propose rules that would eliminate pre-grant merits briefing and prohibit central dockets like those used in Travis and Bexar Counties.
The Court has signaled its interest in the first potential change for a while now, but the second
Two new statewide courts, the Business Court and the Fifteenth Court of Appeals, opened their doors on September 1, 2024. I recently served as course director for a brand-new TexasBarCLE program—Handling Your First (or Next) Business Court Case—focused on educating lawyers about these courts. The course was held on
Like every Texas lawyer licensed since 1988, I’d never known a Texas Supreme Court without Chief Justice Nathan Hecht.
That changed on January 1, 2025.
As widely reported in Texas legal news, Chief Justice Hecht retired from the Court on