From The Texas Lawyer, July 25, 2011 Can a federal judge put what he calls a "vexatious litigant" into receivership after the litigant allegedly fails to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to more than 20 lawyers and law firms? That is one of the questions the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is considering in an appeal brought by a businessman and his company. On May 28, 2009, Netsphere filed its original complaint in Netsphere, et al. v. Jeffrey Baron and Ondova Limited Co. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Netsphere sued Baron and his company, … [Read more...]
Texas Wesleyan Grad Tops on February Bar Exam
For the first time in its 21-year history, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law can brag that one of its graduates, Daniel Denton, took the top score on the Texas bar exam. Denton not only earned the top score among the 1,150 people who sat for the February bar exam, he also graduated first in his class of 68 students in December 2010. … [Read more...]
