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TLR Weekly News Roundup: July 2, 2025
A profit-driven model of litigation—fueled by contingency fees, third-party investors and nuclear verdicts—is distorting the civil justice system and ultimately imposing a considerable tort tax on all hardworking Americans.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: June 25, 2025
Texas passed a landmark set of reforms during the 2025 Texas Legislative Session that will boost business confidence and help bring down costs.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: June 18, 2025
Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law HB 11, legislation that will help alleviate the incredible burden that licensed professionals face when they move to the Lone Star State.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: June 11, 2025
Texas lawmakers approved SB 293, a 25% pay raise for state judges—the first increase in 12 years—on the final day of the legislative session.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: June 4, 2025
The Texas Legislature passed House Bill 40, a bipartisan measure that makes additional enhancements to the Texas Business Court. The bill now heads to Gov. Abbott for signature.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: May 28, 2025
Texas continues to position itself as a major player in the financial sector, competing with financial hubs like New York and Delaware.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: May 21, 2025
Gov. Greg Abbott last week signed into law three significant pieces of legislation that Abbott’s office says will “boost Texas’ capital market environment and cement Texas as the Best State for Business.”
TLR Weekly News Roundup: May 14, 2025
On May 7, SB 30/HB 4806, common-sense legislation addressing lawsuit abuse in Texas was considered in the House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence (JCJ) Committee. The hearing followed Senate passage of the bill in mid-April.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: May 7, 2025
Dark-money special interest groups are running deceptive TV ads, texts, mail and social media across Texas to mislead voters, smear lawmakers and block common-sense legal reforms that aim to cut down on the frivolous lawsuits helping to drive up Texans’ insurance rates and the cost of everyday goods and services.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: April 30, 2025
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed into law Senate Bills (SB) 68 and 69—comprehensive tort reform measures aimed at curbing lawsuit abuse.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: April 23, 2025
On April 16, in a major move, the Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 30 by a vote of 20-11.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: April 16, 2025
Protecting American Consumers Together (PACT) has released a new survey of likely Texas voters gauging their views on the rising cost of living and the impact of lawsuit abuse on everyday expenses.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: April 9, 2025
Governors and lawmakers in Georgia, South Carolina and Texas are focusing on the ways in which their states’ legal climates are significant drivers of the cost of living and doing business.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: April 2, 2025
On March 31, the Senate State Affairs Committee held a hearing on SB 30, Sen. Charles Schwertner’s lawsuit abuse reform bill.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: March 26, 2025
On March 21, in a critical move, Georgia lawmakers signed off on Senate Bill (SB) 68 in Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R) comprehensive tort reform package. The bill now heads to Gov. Kemp’s desk to be signed into law.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: March 19, 2025
Nasdaq has announced it will open its first regional headquarters in Dallas—the latest push by a New York institution into Texas.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: March 12, 2025
Businesses are moving out of Delaware as its courts impose unpredictable legal rulings that undermine corporate confidence, with Texas positioning itself as a stable alternative. In Gov. Greg Abbott’s words: “The Lone Star State is open for business.”
TLR Weekly News Roundup: March 5, 2025
Apple is the latest technology giant to announce its move to the Lone Star State, where it will launch a new 250,000 square-foot factory in Houston to make servers for an artificial-intelligence system.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: February 26, 2025
Leaders in South Carolina and Georgia are aiming to pass a series of tort reform bills this year that would make their respective states more economically competitive and a less costly place to do business.
TLR Weekly News Roundup: February 19, 2025
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is establishing NYSE Texas in Dallas, further solidifying Texas’s status as a business and financial hub.
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