| Trial Skills Seminar in New Orleans! | Kick off 2016 with a trip to New Orleans for camaraderie, networking and the Trial Skills Seminar! February 11-12 at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel in the French Quarter. The Seminar runs from 1PM Thurs through 4PM Fri. An outstanding Seminar program presented by speakers Russ Herman, Mike Gallagher, Richard Mithoff, Kevin Glasheen, Andy Vickery, Jim Mitchell, Andy Payne, and many more. Click on the headline to register.
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| TTLA PAC: Light a Match Today! | The TTLA PAC is excited to announce a major match challenge! This is a tremendous opportunity, but it will only happen if each of us join in the Light a Match campaign. With the March 1 primary elections less than two months away, we need you to strike the first match right now in order that our political support gets to key races as soon as possible. Click on the headline to learn more.
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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Agency: 1,001 Texas Water Suppliers Didn't Test for Lead, Copper in '15 |  | Of the 2,245 Texas public water suppliers that were supposed to test for lead and copper in their systems last year, 1,001 failed to do so, according to officials at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The failure to test in Texas comes as national news outlets follow ongoing problems with lead and copper contamination in Flint, Michigan. State officials changed the source of the city's water supply and since then unhealthy levels of copper and lead have leached from old pipes into Flint's water supply.
Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, Denton Record-Chronicle 01/28/2016    | | Read Article: Denton Record-Chronicle |
| Doctors Who Get Sued Are Likely to Get Sued Again | | One percent of all doctors account for 32 percent of all paid malpractice claims, and the more often a doctor is sued, the more likely he or she will be sued again. Researchers analyzed 10 years of paid malpractice claims using the National Practitioner Data Bank, a federal government database that includes 66,426 claims against 54,099 doctors. The study is in the New England Journal of Medicine.
NICHOLAS BAKALAR , The New York Times 01/28/2016 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
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