In contrast to the hit last week that the media took from the Trump administration, a Texas reporter and newspaper—and their pro bono lawyers of 13 years—have won a First Amendment victory in the Texas Supreme Court. The Texas Supreme Court in an opinion released Jan. 27 found that a news article in the West …

Houston lawyer Gordon Quan knows more than a little about immigration bans. His parents and grandparents all came from China, and Quan was born there, but raised in the United States from a young age. He thought the United States would have learned its lesson from the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned laborers coming from …

It’s typical for a child to be afraid of the dark, monsters under the bed or being alone. When she was a kid, law student Maria Ivañez was afraid of deportation. Her family moved from Venezuela when Ivañez was a child, and for ten years, she lived as an undocumented immigrant. When it came time …

The Texas Supreme Court has some new ideas about tackling the justice gap that’s keeping poor and middle-income people from being able to afford lawyers. Those ideas, identified in a Dec. 6 report by the high court’s Commission to Expand Civil Legal Services, include creating a statewide referral system to send modest-means clients to lawyers …

Dallas lawyer Talmage Boston’s first brush with presidential history came from his mom’s gift on his seventh birthday: trading cards with photos of presidents and facts about their time in office. The Winstead shareholder took a much deeper dive into the world of presidential historians in more recent years with a series of more than …