The year is coming to an end and many folks are looking forward to 2009. With all the common stressors associated with the Holiday season, plus the nation’s economic turmoil which continues to make us all somewhat uneasy, it is essential that we have a plan to get through the Holiday season stress-free. Happiness can…
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With the Holiday Season in full swing and Christmas just around the corner, many people are gearing up to spend next week eating, drinking, opening gifts and creating new memories with their families and loved ones. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. For many of our clients, the Holiday Season can be a time of…
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Texas law does not allow a person to recover if she is killed on the job, even when her employer knows she will be killed. If an employer has worker’s compensation insurance and an employee suffers an injury on the job, then the employee’s medical bills and salary is paid by worker’s compensation insurance. In…
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Internet discovery is becoming more prevalent in current litigation. It appears that average people post all kinds of personal and often incriminating information on the web. From MySpace to FaceBook you can often discover information useful in litigation. I have heard from a number of colleagues that internet discovery has come into play in their…
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The problem with a lot of lawyers, and non-lawyers alike is the fact that the busier they are, sometimes health issues are left unattended. Medical research shows that more than 5 million people in America don’t know they have pre-diabetes or diabetes. One of the reasons diabetes goes undiagnosed in so many people is that…
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The Hispanic Bar Assoc, of Houston, the Mexican American Bar Assoc. of Houston and the Hispanic National Bar Assoc. joined efforts on October 23, 2008, in Houston, Texas, at the historic law firm, to honor and celebrate the unveiling of the HNBA Journal of Law & Policy inaugural edition. The evening’s events brought together local…
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Harris County saw a wave of incumbent judges ousted from their respective positions in this past election. Was this due to voter dissatisfaction with the local judges? Was this due to the unusually high voter turnout (1.18 million voters in Harris County)? Or, was this because President-Elect Obama carried the Democratic challengers into office? Regardless…
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With Thanksgiving being tomorrow, I thought what better topic to write about than everything in this country we have to give thanks for. As the country appears to be going deeper into an economic depression, unemployment steadily increasing, and the holiday season just around the corner, many people are having a hard time finding something…
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