1. If you're looking for The Promised Land, you're in the wrong place. This is the Wild West, Pilgrim.2. There are clients online—sophisticated, moneyed clients—but they don't find lawyers the way you think they do. That is, they don't find lawyers the way the marketers want you to think they do. Clients—sophisticated clients, clients with money—who use the internet to find lawyers don't google "Houston criminal lawyer"

If I were to pick one U.S. District Judge from the Southern District of Texas before whom one should not appear pro se, it would be David Hittner: (I'm guessing Judge Hittner wants to get the parties before him to see if the plaintiff can control his temper better in person.)

From the State's Motion to Recuse Judge Helm from all family violence cases:Due process requires recusal when "there is a serious risk of actual bias—based on objective and reasonable perceptions."andThis bias should not be allowed to interfere with the State's due process rights in a manner that infects "the integrity of the trial process."Problem: The State has no right to due process. (Prosecutors and other statists go

From the State's Motion to Recuse Judge Helm from all family violence cases:Due process requires recusal when "there is a serious risk of actual bias—based on objective and reasonable perceptions."andThis bias should not be allowed to interfere with the State's due process rights in a manner that infects "the integrity of the trial process."Problem: The State has no right to due process. (Prosecutors and other statists go

I, [name of prosecutor], the undersigned Assistant District Attroney, do hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the foregoing document was served on the attorney for the Defendant by certified mail on 11/10/09.[signed]When you sign a certificate of service it is supposed to be true. If you file a document with a false certificate of service, that's a class A misdemeanor. (We've covered this before.

Houston DWI lawyer Tyler Flood made an irresistible target of  himself by running his mouth to the Houston Press, and I was unable to resist. Whoever writes blog posts under his name at his blog managed (inadvertently, I hope) to string Christmas lights around the target by comparing him to Andy Nolen and accusing me of bashing Tyler. But, as I've noted before, Tyler is nothing like

After the shot across his bows, the Harris County DA fires a broadside at Judge Reagan Cartwright Helm, asking him to recuse himself from all cases involving accusations of domestic violence (Brian Rogers, Chronicle).If Judge Helm recuses himself in response to these motions, or if Administrative Judge Olen Underwood recuses him, it might be the right result (friends of Judge Helm, with his best interests at heart,

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Avvo’s general counsel Josh King proposes this rule for the regulation of lawyer marketing:Ultimately, in the absence of consumer harm – and, indeed, a crystal-clear fit within the law’s prohibitions – states should never find that lawyer marketing practices violate their rules.Josh’s reasoning is Constitutional—I gather from his post that the First Amendment allows lawyers to do whatever they want as long as the State Bar can’t

Carolyn Elefant details the defense of three of the “persecuted” Connecticut Total Bankruptcy lawyers.I don’t know that “persecuted” is the right word to use to describe people who face possible punishment for something they did—let’s be blunt—out of avarice. But okay.