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The Texas Secretary of State provides the Comptroller’s Office with the public information reports needed to conduct a query for a specific business name in its database of taxable Texas entities. Once completed, visitors will be….

The Texas Supreme Court has ended the state’s reliance on the American.

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Beyond civil-rights and consumer-protection statutes, many TX jurisdictions have fee-shifting provisions in landlord-tenant, mechanics' lien, insurance bad-faith, and construction-defect contexts. Pleading the fee-shifting statute in the complaint is typically required to preserve the right to recover.

Most conflict-of-interest systems index by named party only. They miss conflicts created when the named party is a wholly-owned subsidiary, a shared parent's affiliate, or a private-equity portfolio company under common control. The model rules treat these as conflicts even though no name match exists.

Enforceability of employee non-competes varies dramatically by state and is trending toward narrower enforcement nationally. Common defects include geographic scope broader than the employer's actual market, duration longer than necessary to protect a legitimate interest, and lack of consideration beyond continued employment.