A Texas Tribune Interview with TTLA Past-President Nelson Roach: After the BP Spill, Will Texas Tighten Liability Laws?, 7-29-10.   Nelson Roach, a Baylor graduate who served last year as the president of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, has been practicing with his Daingerfield-based firm, Nix, Patterson and Roach, since 1987. Over that time, he has watched Texas's tort system come under fire from both the Legislature and the courts — to the point, he believes, where Texas-style tort reform has ended up coddling large, misbehaving companies at the expense of ordinary workers. Access article.

AAJ Release July 2010: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Will Protect Americans from Abusive Forced Arbitrations - Wall Street reform gives CFPB and SEC power to limit use of one-sided forced arbitration clauses in consumer and investment contracts. Access Release.

New: TTLA Communication/Media Tips, July 2010. 
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AAJ  Report: Decades of Environmental Disasters Show Role of Civil Justice System in Holding Polluters Accountable, July 2010.  The report examines how laws passed in the 1960s and 1970s were supposed to protect the environment, but lax enforcement left corporations with little incentive to comply. Ultimately, trial attorneys were the ones who sought justice for communities destroyed by corporate polluters. Access Release or Full Report.

 UPCOMING EVENTS

Tropical Getaway Seminar
October 13-17, 2010
Key West, FL
More info coming soon.