When TLR began the battle for lawsuit reform in 1994, our goal was to create an honest, balanced and predictable civil justice system. Our supporters around the state, from small business owners to professionals to corporate leaders, painfully recognized that lawsuit abuse was a huge drag on our economy, costing Texas dearly in many ways, including slower business expansion and fewer jobs.

This Special Edition of The Advocate reprints news articles about the kinds of lawyers who appear to have a dangerous and destructive view of the practice of law, one in which greed, rather than justice, is the driving force. We bring these articles to your attention not to disparage the legal profession (two of TLR’s four co-founders are lawyers), but to highlight the kinds of ongoing abuses in the legal system that give rise to the need for the reforms which TLR advocates.