Category Archives: Litigation
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What You Need to Know About Online Contracts
Here are some of the specific issues faced by SaaS, cloud computing, social networking, and other online service companies. Online E-contracts One of the common questions in dealing with tech companies deals with legal and contractual questions when you don’t have an actual customer sitting in your office that you make a deal and sign…
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How To Evict a Person from a Property Acquired in a Foreclosure Sale (Part 2)
This is part two of a two-part series that details the process of evicting a tenant from a property in Texas that is acquired by an owner in a foreclosure sale. Step 1) Know the Date. After an eviction petition has been filed in a Justice of the Peace Court (“JP Court”), the JP Court…
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How To Evict a Person from a Property Acquired in a Foreclosure Sale (Part 1)
This will be a two-part series that will detail the process of evicting a tenant from a property that has been acquired by a real estate company in a foreclosure sale. Step 1) Write a 3-Day Notice to Vacate. When a person remains on a property that has been acquired by a real estate company…
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How To Potentially Recover from a Car Wreck
If you’ve been in a car wreck, you know that it can be a traumatic experience. The aftermath of the crash can be just as bad, especially if you’re struggling to pay for repairs or medical bills. Thankfully, there are some steps you can take to help mitigate the financial damage. In this post, we’ll…
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Hold Everything In Confidence: Confidential vs Privileged Information
Texas attorneys generally must keep all information relating to a client or furnished by the client confidential. This duty far outstrips what most people think about as “confidential”—it includes the identity of the client, the fact that the attorney and the client communicated, even information that is publicly available, such as whether the client is…
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My Case Went To Mediation… What Is Mediation?
Short Answer: Mediation is where each party sits in a separate room with their attorney and the mediator walks back and forth between rooms and talks to the parties to see whether they want to settle the case. Longer Answer: Mediation is a forum in which an impartial person—the mediator—facilitates communication between parties to promote reconciliation,…
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Conservatorship Basics
Divorce is already difficult enough but things can become considerably more challenging when the fight is over children. This is especially true when the parents simply have no experience with the legal system and no idea what of their potential fates could be. This brief overview is in no way intended to be exhaustive in…