TLR Advocate Special Edition 2020
Analyzing Judicial Selection In Texas The following is excerpted from the TLR Foundation’s recent paper on judicial selection, entitled Evaluating Judicial Selection In Texas: A Comparative Study of State Judicial Selection Methods. The full paper is available at www.tlrfoundation.com. A young Abraham Lincoln, commenting on the recent passing of the last surviving Founding Father, James Madison, urged […]
TLR Advocate September 2019
Leadership Matters By Richard J. Trabulsi Jr., TLR Chairman The 86th Legislature passed a wide array of meaningful civil justice bills, making it a landmark session for TLR initiatives. More broadly, this session was one of the most successful in a decade in producing consensus improvements in public education, property tax relief and health care, […]
TLR Advocate April 2019
A Comprehensive Plan for Selecting Qualified, Nonpartisan Texas Judges By Hugh Rice Kelly, TLR Senior General Counsel TLR has long advocated changing the way we select judges in Texas in order to remove partisanship and provide stability in our judiciary. Rep. Brooks Landgraf (R- Odessa) has introduced House Joint Resolution 148 and HB 4504, establishing a judicial selection […]
TLR Advocate February 2019
Disorder in the Courts By Richard J. Trabulsi Jr., TLR Chairman After more than two decades of tort reforms enacted by the Texas Legislature, it is time to give increased attention to the organization and efficiency of the Texas court system. The TLR Foundation issued a comprehensive review of the Texas courts in a 2007 […]
TLR Advocate Fall 2018
You Have the Power to Make a Lasting Impact By Gov. Greg Abbott Texas is blessed with a vibrant economy that continues to gain national attention. Just this summer, CNBC named Texas the Top State for Business in 2018. Earlier this year, Site Selection Magazine awarded Texas its Governor’s Cup for new and expanded corporate facilities for […]
TLR Advocate Spring 2018
Here’s to 25 More Years When we, along with Leo Linbeck Jr., founded TLR in 1994, we thought we could engage in an election or two, in a legislative session or two, and call it quits. Mission accomplished. Well, not quite. Even though we achieved major tort reform in 1995, with the leadership of Gov. […]
TLR Advocate: August 2017
A Successful Session for Civil Justice Gov Abbott is joined by Sen. Hancock and Rep. Bonnen, their staffs and TLR representatives for the signing of HB 1774 on May 27. Will Rogers observed that, “we could certainly slow down the aging process if it had to work its way through the Legislature.” We know what […]
TLR Advocate: March 2017
A Future We Can Be Proud Of Diane and I took our ten-year-old granddaughter to Washington, D.C., last fall. While we have visited Washington often, Diane and I experienced it freshly watching Genevieve’s excitement and enthusiasm about our nation’s founding and history. I was especially pleased when Genevieve, in a recent school essay, wrote of […]
TLR Advocate: January 2017
FINALLY, A COMMON GOAL? As we have done frequently over the past 22 years, TLR will ask the Texas Legislature to change state law to fix a lawyer-driven abuse of our civil justice system. We already know we will be opposed—once again— by the Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA). TTLA is a professional association whose […]
TLR Advocate: October 2016
TEXAS’ LEADING LAWSUIT ABUSE 2016 has been a tumultuous year for severe weather in Texas, with storms dropping hailstones on communities across the state. Unfortunately, each hail event is seen by certain plaintiff trial lawyers as a gold mine to be exploited through a money-making scheme of soliciting property owners to file lawsuits against insurance […]