On August 21, 2012, Christopher C. Pappas will be a guest speaker at the Construction Law Seminar which will be held at the Marriott-West Loop Hotel in Houston, Texas. The topics he will cover are “Litigation Avoidance and Management” and “Ethics […]
The Texas Legislature recently passed, and Governor Perry signed into law, House Bill 2093, which took effect on January 1, and which makes certain indemnity and additional insured provisions in construction contracts void and unenforceable as against […]
Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC congratulates Marcy L. Rothman on being elected to membership in the Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation, the largest charitably-funded bar foundation in the country. Fellows of the Foundation are selected for their […]
Joseph M. Coleman served as a panelist at the DFW Association of Young Bankruptcy Lawyers’ annual Financial Professionals Committee event held on October 4, 2012 in Dallas, TX. The event was co-hosted by the Turnaround Management Association’s […]
It is widely thought that the civil jury trial is dying a slow death in the American legal system. The cause of death is largely attributed to the high price tag associated with the modern jury trial. In the hopes of curbing this trend, the […]
The Texas Supreme Court recently rendered an important decision which has the potential to expand an employer's liability for wrongful termination of employees in Texas. Texas is an at-will employment state where employers have the ability […]
On September 1, 2011, H.B. 274 went into effect. H.B. 274 made several significant changes to the Texas civil litigation practice. (See KRCL Litigation Alert, September, 2011.) Among the most important of these changes was a directive […]
Texas enacted its first workers’ compensation laws nearly a century ago. In most jurisdictions then, an employer’s participation in the workers’ compensation system was elective. However, after a United States Supreme Court […]
The defense team of Chris Pappas, Roland Hamilton, David Mullican, Laura Garcia and local counsel Scott West of the West Law Firm obtained a zero defense verdict in a residential construction case filed in Fort Bend County. Plaintiffs […]
Joseph M. Coleman, Raymond J. Kane and Joseph A. Friedman have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® for 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.), a highly respected peer-review publication […]
Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC is a proud sponsor of the 1st Annual Dillon Gage Golf Tournament Benefiting HELPS International to be held at the Bent Tree Country Club on October 10, 2011. HELPS International is a non-profit corporation […]
Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC is a proud sponsor of FightNight 2011 which is scheduled for May 12 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas. This event is hosted by The Real Estate Council and is the organization's premier fundraising event.& […]