33rd & 424th District Courts

I found what promises to be a handy (and free) home inventory program to aid in documenting your belongings for the eventualit

The District Clerk of Burnet County is accepting e-Filing now, in case you missed that news.  Dana DeBerry's initiative in that regard is remarkable in that Burnet County is the pilot small-county project for the e-filing process. See the list below of current e-filing counties and other statewide news.  Dana reports that the number of filings is increasing. 

This article is no longer correct. The procedure has been superceded. See article effective 1/1/07 .

(updated 4/6/05 -- partial)

This topic will list links to the various bills of interest to the 33rd Judicial District in particular, and to attorneys in general, plus some generally handy legislative links.

You hear all the time that there are too many lawyers.  As we know, that varies from place to place, but overall could this be? Here is an article  from the University of Illinois -  Urbana/Champaign asking Are There Too Many Lawyers?, which was presented by the Pre-Law and Law School Admissions office. While many stats are presented I can't figure out what the real point was of the article.

Mom sues Coors over Son's Death in accident. CNN reports this. The following comment was noted on another web site:

The total population of the four counties of the 33rd Judicial District has probably passed 65,000. With the demise of the visiting judge program (which is expected to at least remain scaled way back) and the increasing need for bench time, a permanent solution is needed to provide greater court availability.

This is not a ruling, but a list of areas where I see counsel making errors on a consistent basis. Hope it helps someone in thinking about these things.

PREDICATES often done erroneously:
Use of writing to refresh: See TRE Rule 612. The writing is only useable to refresh memory when the witness cannot otherwise accurately recall a matter. Therefore, you must first establish the necessity of that reference, e.g. "Mr. Smith, are you able to accurately recall the points made on the occasion in question?" [Wit answers "no"]. "Is there a document that would help you to refresh your memory?" That sets it up but it's frequently not done. And DONT hand it to the witness until the predicate is laid.