I receive a lot of landlord/tenant questions from clients, but mostly from prospective clients calling for the first time. One question I don't often get concerns the obligation of the landlord in Texas with regard to the residential tenant's safety in the leased premises. ...

As a lawyer, I am often asked to review contracts of all kinds.  Hopefully, the client is asking me to conduct that review prior to the signing of the written lease contract.  Unfortunately, that is not usually the case, and especially so in the situation ...

I recently had a client express serious concern over an issue that is the subject of this post, that being the "answer date" in litigation in which the client was involved.  Shortly after agreeing to take on the lawsuit in which the client had been ...

A family member unexpectedly passes away and you are the executor named in the decedent's Will, at least that's what you remember from a long-ago conversation you had with the decedent.  Problem is that the Will is in a safe deposit box owned by the decedent. What to do?

It's no ...

Businesses lose hundreds of thousands of dollars annually because of NSF (insufficient or non-sufficient funds) checks when those instruments are not honored by the banks the're written on. The business owners must factor in the additional time, frustration, and resources to go ...