TLR Advocate Winter 2025
Winter Advocate, 2025 By Lee Parsley, TLR President and General Counsel Texans for Lawsuit Reform enters its sixteenth legislative session with the same mission it has had since its inception: advocate for a fair, balanced and predictable justice system in our state. We do so in the face of a discouraging litigation environment fueled by […]
TLR Advocate Summer 2024
Looking to the Future By Lee Parsley, TLR President and General Counsel This year marks TLR’s 30th anniversary! It’s hard to believe it has been three decades since a group of business leaders came together to address the most pernicious issue facing Texas’ economy- abusive and unnecessary litigation. And while the environment and challenges we […]
TLR Advocate: Celebrating 20 Years of Transformational Lawsuit Reform in Texas
House Bill 4 Celebrating 20 Years of Transformational Lawsuit Reform in Texas The Omnibus Tort Reform Bill of 2003 Twenty Years and Counting “When we founded TLR in 1994, we believed that in this democracy, citizens who see a wrong, an abuse, or a problem have both the right and the duty to organize themselves […]
TLR Advocate Summer 2023
On the Ground with the TLR Team By Emerson Kirksey Hankamer, TLRPAC Board Member In April, I had the opportunity to join the TLR team in Austin for a glimpse of what it takes to pass meaningful legislation to improve our state’s civil justice system. My legislative experience to this point consisted of a college […]
TLR Advocate January 2023
TLR in the Future: A Wider Scope of Activity By Alan Hassenflu, TLR Board Member TLR’s persistent focus on civil justice issues for nearly 30 years helped turn Texas into the nation’s most powerful economic engine. Our work in that area will continue unabated. We will advocate for passage of bills in 2023 to enhance […]
TLR Advocate Summer 2022
Defending the Texas Miracle By Richard J. Trabulsi Jr., TLR Chairman It was way back in December of 1993 when Dick Weekley called together a few dozen friends in Houston to discuss the deplorable state of the Texas civil justice system. From that first meeting, under Dick’s leadership, there emerged a dedicated group of community leaders […]
TLR Advocate Fall 2021
Houston, We Have A Problem By Richard J. Trabulsi Jr., TLR Chairman It is not only Houston, but our entire state, that has a problem. An earthbound problem. We are choosing our third branch of government—the judiciary—without regard to a person’s qualifications to be a judge. If you were choosing a lawyer, you would exercise […]
TLR Advocate Session Wrap-Up
Session Wrap-Up By Richard J. Trabulsi Jr., TLR Chairman The 87th Texas Legislature was unique in my decades of experience. Our State Capitol during session is a crowded, bustling, loud agora of Texans hawking their ideas and interests to our policymakers. The broad sweep of our expansive, diverse state is on glorious display. Not this […]
TLR Advocate January 2021
Previewing the 87th Legislative Session By Richard J. Trabulsi Jr., TLR Chairman The 87th Legislature this year is the 14th in which TLR will offer meaningful reforms to our judiciary and civil justice system. This follows a successful session in 2019, in which numerous bills advocated by TLR were enacted with broad bipartisan support. Gov. Greg […]
TLR Advocate Summer 2020
The Supreme Court of Texas: One of the Most Distinguished Courts in America By Lee Parsley, TLR General Counsel Since the election of Tom Phillips and Nathan Hecht to the Supreme Court of Texas in 1988, the court has become one of the most respected and influential in America. Tom Phillips retired as chief justice after 16 years, leaving […]