TLR Advocate: Summer 2015
A SERIOUS LAWSUIT ABUSE GOES UNCHECKED The most serious lawsuit abuse in Texas today is led by notorious plaintiff lawyer Steve Mostyn, who reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in manipulative hurricane-related lawsuits against the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (leaving that quasi-government body basically insolvent), and who now is engaged in abusive hail event litigation on a massive scale. Senate […]
TLR Advocate: Spring 2015
WHAT THE HAIL IS GOING ON IN TEXAS? Our litigation system is supposed to be about resolving legitimate disputes that cannot otherwise be resolved. Civil justice is corrupted when lawsuits are manufactured for the purpose of enriching a handful of lawyers and those who ensnare clients on their behalf. Today, there are plaintiff trial lawyers […]
TLR Advocate: February 2015
A Corruption of the Rule of Law In law as in life, there is right – and there is wrong. Once again, the mass tort lawyers who travel the gold road of asbestos litigation have been revealed by a federal judge as manipulating litigation for self-enrichment, without regard for the integrity of our civil justice […]
TLR Advocate: Summer 2014
Plaintiff Trial Lawyers Attempt to Distort Role of Judges and Juries This spring’s decisive Republican primary victories by the highly qualified Texas Supreme Court incumbents, though satisfying, left a battlefield marked with signs that the plaintiffs’ trial bar has no plans to abandon their assault on the high court. The key sign was their decision […]
TLR Advocate: Summer 2013
Since the death of our dear friend and TLR co-founder, Leo Linbeck, Jr., there has been an outpouring of expressions of respect and love for him. Like so many others, I am deeply saddened at Leo’s physical departure from this earth. But at the same time, I feel this warm, glowing sense of gratitude that […]
TLR Advocate: Bob Perry – A Gentle Soul, A Patriot, A Courageous Warrior
A gentle soul, a patriot, a courageous warrior Bob Perry was my dear friend. I worked closely with Bob for twenty years on Texas public policy and politics. He was a gentle soul, a patriot and a courageous warrior when needed. He would never back down when principal was at stake…ever. Bob was the very […]
TLR Advocate: Winter 2013
Reflections As we in TLR contemplate the last twenty years of success at the ballot box and in the legislature, we should heed the age-old adage that “every success has in it the seeds of failure and every failure the seeds of success.” Napoleon observed that the greatest danger is at the moment of victory. […]
TLR Advocate: September 2011
Sixteen Years of Civil Justice Reform Rick Perry has been a strong advocate for civil justice reform throughout his years as Governor. He provided leadership on the sweeping tort reforms of 2003 (HB 4, the Omnibus Tort Reform Bill), the 2005 reform to eliminate the outrageous abuses in asbestos and silica litigation (SB 15) and, […]
2011 Legislative Agenda
Fighting for Civil Justice Reform in Austin “This is a busy legislative session for civil justice issues. You recently received TLR’s report on TWIA, the state-created Texas Windstorm Insurance Association that insures coastal residents for wind damage. The report details the questionable and excessive legal fees that resulted from Hurricane Ike. TLR is working with […]
TLR Advocate: Summer 2010
Solving Problems In A Civil Society This is a personal note. Dick Weekley and I have been close friends for 43 years. I would have helped with TLR out of friendship and loyalty – for a short while. That “short while” is now 15 years. I have given some time and a little money. But […]