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This treatise discusses important aspects of Texas administrative law including judicial review of agency actions, rulemaking, adjudicative powers of agencies, and preparing for Texas agency hearings.
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This is the foremost practice guide for civil appeals in Texas. It covers the entire appeal process with expert guidance, annotated rules, forms, and timetables that span from soup to nuts, all in one handy book.
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This treatise contains the full text of relevant statutes from Title 11 U.S. Bankruptcy Code, Texas property exemptions statutes, relevant rules of Federal Civil Procedure, Evidence, and Bankruptcy Procedure. It also contains local bankruptcy rules, and fraudulent transfer statutes.
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This treatise provides hands-on guidance for dealing with the formation, governance, sale, and termination of entities. In addition to guidance, it provides detailed analysis of leading cases. It is especially useful for research regarding transactional activities, corporate governance matters, and the consequences of failures in corporate governance. The treatise includes multiple appendices, including a “Choice of Entity Decision Matrix,” intended to assist attorneys in determining the proper entity for their client.
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Texas Business Litigation is a comprehensive guide for practitioners in Texas practicing all manner of litigation regarding businesses. This includes discussions of e-discovery, causes of action unique to the oil and gas industry, business divorce, bankruptcy, and breach of fiduciary duty claims.
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The Texas Business Organizations Manual, published by the State Bar of Texas, contains forms in addition to helpful commentary. Thoroughly supported by cited authorities, the Manual explains relevant law and procedures. Comprehensive indexes of authorities cited, forms, and subject matter provide ready access to essential information. It includes greater analysis of form interpretation and guidance than relevant statutes.
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Texas Practice Series: Business Organizations, Vols 19-20A
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This guide, commonly referred to simply as Dorsaneo's, is one of the most trusted treatises in Texas. It has step by step instructions for most types of civil litigation in Texas, covering a wide range of issues, with forms for nearly everything you may need through the whole course of litigation. Regardless of the type of civil trial you may need guidance on, you should check Dorsaneo's.
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This multi-volume treatise is a comprehensive dive into all things Texas civil procedure. Most questions about Texas civil procedure will likely be answered in this treatise.
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This is the most trusted Texas guide for ensuring that a party can meet a set of legal elements or factors for a cause of action and for finding holes in those claims. It gives detailed descriptions of most of the considerations that go into proving a cause of action and the nuances involved, with caselaw and expert wisdom throughout, all in a single volume.
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O’Connor’s Texas Rules Civil Trials provides clear, detailed explanations of procedure with strategies and practice tips for each phase of litigation. The commentary is written and edited by experienced practitioners and backed by thousands of citations. It also contains the complete text of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure and Texas Rules of Evidence with quotations from the most important relevant caselaw interpretations.
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This treatise will help you understand how summary judgment works in Texas. It provides expert advice from how and when to file the motion (or a response motion), what records you’re allowed to present with it, to how to successfully appeal a dispositive motion.
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This is a multi-volume guide on everything Texas civil trials. It explains how to conduct discovery, file and argue motions, admit and exclude evidence, question witnesses, preserve an appeal, and everything in between.
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This treatise contains the full text of the relevant statutes with annotations of cases and other relevant materials, and full text of relevant rules. This is a part of the O’Connor’s series and is updated annually.
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This treatise contains the full text of the relevant statutes with annotations to cases and other relevant materials, and full text of relevant rules from the Texas Administrative Code. The treatise is a part of the O’Connor’s series and is updated annually.
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This treatise covers all aspects of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, including its history and the development of case law concerning the Act. This is updated annually and coverage includes extensive discussion of leading cases as it extends to all areas of Texas DTPA practice. It is more a traditional treatise than a practice guide with checklists and forms.
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This practice guide covers the major criminal offenses of texas. It summarizes the elements, punishments, limitations, defenses, and more, of each criminal offense to help you quickly determine whether the offense applies to a given scenario. It includes tips and tricks to defend a client from prosecution, and has suggested jury charges for each potential offense.
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This annually updated title from Carolina Academic Press covers some topics related to criminal procedure. There is some focus on Texas courts and their criminal jurisdiction and specialty courts, which don’t receive much treatment elsewhere. It also includes extended discussion of the death penalty in Texas, juvenile justice, crime victims, and Texas border protection. The treatise reads more like a textbook than a practice guide.
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Covering more than 250 topics, this Handbook also gives you in-depth practice advice on constitutional rights, documentary evidence, scientific evidence, impeachment techniques, punishment, and more. Texas Criminal Lawyers' Handbook provides detailed and practice-oriented coverage of all aspects of a criminal case, from arrests to expunctions.
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Equipped with a detailed index useful to the newer researcher, the Texas Criminal Practice Guide covers procedures and practice at every step of the criminal case. In addition to its analysis of case law and statutes, it features practitioner guidance for individual procedural steps. In addition, each chapter concludes with a research guide that provides citations to both primary and secondary materials. Topics include jurisdiction, arrest, trial and post-conviction remedies. Each topic receives in-depth treatment and accompanying forms and practice guide.
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This volume, updated near annually, provides in-depth coverage of all aspects of search and seizure law in Texas. It is written concisely, with good analysis of leading Texas and federal cases. Of specific interest to Texas practitioners, immigration searches, school searches, and searches of technology and devices are among topics covered.
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Texas Practice Guide: Criminal Practice & Procedure