by Staff | Jan 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
January 12, 2015 (http://www.texaslawyer.com/id=1202714459994/Tort-Reform-Bill-Caused-Flurry-of-New-Motions-to-Dismiss) By Angela...
by Staff | Jan 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
January 12, 2015 (http://governor.state.tx.us/news/appointment/20485/) Gov. Rick Perry has appointed Greg Neeley of Longview as justice of the 12th Court of Appeals for a term to expire at the 2016 general election. Neeley is an attorney in private practice. He is a past partner of Neeley and Blair LLP and Akin, Neeley and Mason LLP and past assistant district attorney for Gregg County. He is board certified in civil trial law and personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and Gregg County Bar Association, past member of the American Bar Association and Texas Association of Defense Counsel and past chair of the State Bar of Texas Grievance Committee. He is a team member and past director of the ACTS Missions Spiritual Retreat in East Texas, past volunteer judge for Longview Teen Court and past volunteer fundraiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association Longview Chapter. Neeley received a bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at Austin and a law degree from the Texas Tech University School of...
by Staff | Jan 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
January 8, 20015 (http://governor.state.tx.us/news/appointment/20476/) Gov. Rick Perry has appointed Bill Miller of Texarkana as judge of the 5th Judicial District Court in Bowie and Cass counties for a term to expire at the 2016 general election. Miller is an attorney and partner at Greer and Miller in Texarkana, Ward 5 councilman for the City of Texarkana, and a member of the Texarkana Intergovernmental Advisory Committee. He is chairman of the State Bar of Texas Law Practice Management Committee and a past member of the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors. He is a member of the Texas Association of Defense Counsel, Defense Research Institute, and American and Arkansas Bar associations, and past Texas delegate to the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates. He is also a member and past secretary of the Texarkana Bar Association and past president, past chairman and past director of the Texas Young Lawyers Association Board of Directors. He is a member of the Texarkana Soccer Association Board of Directors and St. James Day School Board of Trustees, and counsel to the St. James Episcopal Church Vestry. He is also a past legal fundraising coordinator for the United Way of Greater Texarkana and past member of the Texarkana Museums Systems Board of Directors and the Literacy Council of Bowie and Miller Counties Inc. Board of Directors. Miller received a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and a law degree from the Texas Tech University School of...
by Staff | Jan 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
January 8, 2015 (http://governor.state.tx.us/news/appointment/20477/) Gov. Rick Perry has appointed Bobby Burnett of Munday as judge of the 50th Judicial District Court in Baylor, Cottle, King and Knox counties for a term to expire at the 2016 general election. Burnett is an attorney in private practice and president of Knox County Abstract Co. He is a past county attorney for Knox County and past district attorney for the 50th Judicial District. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and Texas Land Title Association, and a past member of the Texas District and County Attorneys Association. He is a member of the Munday Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, Knox County Visioning Committee, Knox County Central Appraisal District Board of Directors and First National Bank Board of Directors in Munday. He is also chair of the Munday First United Methodist Church Finance Committee, past president of the Munday Lions Club, and a past member of the Benjamin Cemetery Association Board of Directors in Knox County. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve. Burnett received a bachelor’s degree from Midwestern University and a law degree from the Texas Tech University School of...
by Staff | Jan 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
January 8, 2015 (http://governor.state.tx.us/news/appointment/20475/) Gov. Rick Perry has appointed Jason Pulliam of San Antonio as justice of the 4th Court of Appeals for a term to expire at the 2016 general election. Pulliam will be the first African American justice to serve on the court. Pulliam is judge of Bexar County Court at Law No. 5. He is a past associate attorney for Ball and Weed and Ford and Massey in San Antonio and the Carlson Law Firm in Killeen, and served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a judge advocate. He is a member of the San Antonio Bar Association, and a past member of the San Antonio Young Lawyers Association and the Defense Counsel of San Antonio. Pulliam received a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in political science from Brooklyn College and a law degree from the Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of...
by Staff | Jan 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
January 8, 2015 (http://governor.state.tx.us/news/appointment/20474/) Gov. Rick Perry has appointed Mark Pittman of Fort Worth as judge of the 352nd Judicial District Court in Tarrant County for a term to expire at the 2016 general election. Pittman is an enforcement attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Fort Worth Regional Office, and is currently serving as a special assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. He is a past senior attorney for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Dallas Regional Office, past assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas and a past trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch. He is a past civil litigation attorney with Kelly, Hart and Hallman LLP, past law clerk to Judge Eldon B. Mahon of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fort Worth Division, and past assistant in the general counsel office of Gov. George W. Bush. He is a member of the Tarrant County Bar Association, secretary of the Texas Radiation Advisory Board and vice president and a founding member of the Tarrant County (Fort Worth) Chapter of the Federalist Society. He is a past member of the Eldon B. Mahon Inn of Court, Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association and American Bar Association. He is a member of the St. Patrick Cathedral Knights of Columbus and St. Mary of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church in Fort Worth. Pittman received a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and a law degree from The University of Texas School of...
