Rique Bobbitt has “a stellar record as defense attorney” and passing familiarity with indefinite articles. So do Clark Adams and Edward Reddish. Richard Coleman has “a stellar record as personal injury attorney” and the same articulate deficit.McNair Hawn Jackson have “a stellar record as elder and disability attorneys.” Dearfield, Kruer and Co., LLC have “a stellar record as bankruptcy attorney” but a weak grasp of number.Richard Darden

Yodle sucks. Yodle sucks because, aside from cold-calling NACDL members claiming that organization’s imprimatur  (which it does not have), it sells lawyers cookie-cutter websites. And not very good cookie-cutter websites, either: There are a couple of things, other than their interchangeability, that I found interesting about these Yodle sites.

We are social animals. Where we fit into the pack is important to us. We are biologically programmed to seek standing in our pack. Like other social animals, we evolved ways of negotiating that standing. As we became civilized and our packs grew too large for one alpha to manage harmoniously, we developed ways to form alliances to maintain order: when one member of the pack became

A guy contacted me recently looking for representation on a state-court felony matter. "It's a really easy case," he said, "which any moron could win."*Here are the four possible conditions when a potential new client says "it's a really easy case":Case is difficult.Case is easy.PNC believes case is easy.ABPNC believes case is difficult.CDThe worst-case scenario, if the lawyer takes the case, is (A), in which the client

If you are in Harris County and you haven't voted yet, please go vote for Loren Jackson for District Clerk. I'd rather you didn't vote straight-ticket anything, but if you feel compelled, out of some ovine instinct, to vote straight-ticket Republican, please cast one vote against the straight ticket and for Jackson. Friday 10/29 is the last day of early voting.

Special Prosecutor Kelly Siegler finally saw her way clear to dismissing capital murder charges against a factually innocent man who spent 18 years in prison because of prosecutorial misconduct. Kudos to Siegler for doing the right thing, and to Graves's defense lawyers, Katherine Scardino and Jimmy Phillips, for keeping the heat on until Kelly did the right thing. Anthony Graves is free.Charles Sebesta, the prosecutor who concealed

In the circus that is the Allen Stanford case, Stanford's legal team was the clown car: you never knew who was going to pop out next. This morning Judge Hittner ended that nonsense. Stanford was asking for a change of lawyers and, since an indigent defendant has no right to choose his appointed counsel, Hittner refused to allow Stephen Cochell, Christopher Bebel, and Michael Stanley to represent

Two more lawyers (via Mary Flood, Houston Legal Blog) yesterday filed a notice of appearance in the criminal case against the beleaguered Allen Stanford: Stephen R. Cochell and Christopher Biebel. I've never heard of them, and neither is listed as counsel of record on any federal criminal case in the Southern District of Texas. Cochell bills himself as "Your Outside General Counsel," whatever that means. Bebel markets

So there’s this guy:With respect to anonymity, I am going to maintain it for the time being.  There are a number of reasons.First, there is in my estimation a small risk to others, by association with me. After all, this effort is a swipe at powerful interests. It may or may not be effective – I hope it is. But I see no reason to take even

[Begin willing suspension of disbelief.]As I've said more than once, the government and the free market are failing to provide competent criminal-defense services to the working poor.And so the church steps in: Well of the Oath Legal Clinic of Irving, Texas is a faith-based nonprofit organization providing legal services (through second-year lawyer Craig Randall Novak) to people making less than 250% of the Federal poverty guideline (so