| Houston: TTLA Car Wrecks CLE Seminar, March 5, 2015 | Earn up to 7.25 hours MCLE credit including 1.0 hr ethics credit. Happy Hour following Hosted by the TTLA Advocates Board. TTLA's Car Wrecks Seminar is the must-attend program for practitioners of all experience levels. The 2015 CLE Seminar features practical, in-depth tips and strategies presented by a stellar faculty covering real-world topics to help you WIN YOUR CASES. Come away with the tools you need to compete in the courtroom! Program highlights: Jury Charge; Power Demand Letter; In-House Focus Groups; Nuts and Bolts of a Routine Car Wreck Case--10 Things I Wish I Knew; and more! Click on the headline to learn more!
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| Introducing TTLA by Text | A new opt-in member service to get up-to-the minute legislative news to you via text messaging to your cell phone. Texts will be limited to legislative issues. We'll let you know when important hearings or testimony are beginning, what's happening with bills of interest, and we'll provide links to video clips of relevant hearing testimony. Click on the headline to opt-in. If you have questions regarding the service, contact Mona Fults (mfults@ttla.com).
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| Why It's Nearly Impossible to Sue Your Credit Card Co |  | The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to issue a major report next week on what consumer advocates say is one of the leading but most misunderstood ways that companies limit a customer's rights, people familiar with the matter said. The practice is called 'mandatory arbitration,' which bars consumers from filing class action lawsuits or taking other steps to seek relief after they feel a company has wronged them. Such arbitration clauses are often found in the fine print of credit cards, payday loans and auto loans. Consumers instead are steered into arbitration, which critics say is a secretive process that is often stacked in the company's favor and leads to little benefit for consumers. 'The unfairness here is incredibly widespread,' says David Seligman, staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center.
Jonnelle Marte, The Washington Post 03/03/2015    | | Read Article: The Washington Post |
| Studies Explore Concerns About Natural-Gas Production and Health | | Dogs serve as living recorders of toxic exposure. Cattle have trouble breeding. People report headaches, dizziness, difficulty breathing and a raft of other ills. Those are a few of the findings in a new suite of academic studies on natural-gas production and health being published Tuesday. The research, mostly by university scientists, centers mostly on another region where gas production has moved into established communities, the Marcellus Shale field in Pennsylvania. But it explores the same questions that arise in North Texas neighborhoods that now find wells and processing plants as newcomers. Bit by bit, science is plugging the gaps in public understanding left by limits and inadequacies of past research.
RANDY LEE LOFTIS, The Dallas Morning News 03/03/2015 | | Read Article: The Dallas Morning News |
| Family Settles Injury Lawsuit Against Rodeo & Golf Cart Maker | | The family of a Texas woman who remains in a coma after falling out of a golf cart at the Houston Rodeo two years ago has settled its lawsuits. The woman was volunteering at the rodeo when the driver of the golf cart she was riding in took a sharp turn, causing her to fall head-first onto the pavement. She has remained in a coma since the incident. The family filed the lawsuits against rodeo and the maker of the golf cart. The family settled the lawsuits for an undisclosed amount, which they say will cover the woman's 24-hour care.
Josh Chapin, KHOU-TV 03/02/2015 | | Read Article: KHOU-TV |
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