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Texas Annual Survey: Securities Regulation, George Lee Flint Jr
Texas Annual Survey: Securities Regulation, George Lee Flint Jr
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Many courts rendered opinions during the Survey period affecting the reach of the Texas Securities Act (“TSA”). The Texas Supreme Court acknowledged the TSA’s reach over dealers selling from Texas to non-residents of the state, as well as over registration of securities sold. In contrast, the Fifth Circuit continued Congress’s campaign to limit regulation of interest rate swaps to federal regulatory bodies by defining “security” in the TSA to exclude interest rate swaps. In Kastner v. Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C., a Texas appellate court determined that lawyers are not subject to liability for aiding and abetting when they merely prepare …
Updated Lessons In Conducting Basics Legal Research By Pro Se Litigants Who Cannot Afford An Attorney, Mike Martinez Jr, Michael P. Forrest, Paul S. Miller
Updated Lessons In Conducting Basics Legal Research By Pro Se Litigants Who Cannot Afford An Attorney, Mike Martinez Jr, Michael P. Forrest, Paul S. Miller
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The first generation of this article was written and published by The Scholar in 2006.1 Because the trend to accessing legal materials is geared more and more toward the Internet, the tour of the book world that was the focus of the original article requires expansion to include those sources available on the World Wide Web.2 Thus, this article contains most of the content in the original article, and then is supplemented by discussions of content currently available from online legal resources.
American Legal Ethics In An Age Of Anxiety, Michael S. Ariens
American Legal Ethics In An Age Of Anxiety, Michael S. Ariens
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The thesis of my article, “American Legal Ethics in an Age of Anxiety,” is that the historical development of American legal ethics was regularly accompanied by an anxiety within the profession. In general, I suggest the legal profession’s understanding of its ethical precepts has been molded and reshaped during periods of professional anxiety. The profession’s understanding of legal ethics changed dramatically during various crises in the 19th century, exemplified by the different approaches taken by David Hoffman in the mid-1830s, George Sharswood in the mid-1850s, and David Dudley Field in the early 1870s. In each case, however, the triggering event …