TLR Tuesdays

Sine Die is here, and TLR is celebrating some major victories for Texas’s business environment. SB 29, corporate governance law, makes Texas the preferred destination for corporate reincorporation and relocation, and HB 40, a bill expanding the jurisdiction of the Texas Business Court, will make Texas even more enticing to businesses. While we celebrate these victories, TLR is greatly disappointed...

In this week’s episode, TLR President and General Counsel Lee Parsley and TLR Executive Director Mary Tipps welcome a Fort Worth resident to share her story. Lisa was involved in an accident and hired a lawyer to help her. Soon thereafter, she discovered a complex web of inflated medical bills from her attorney and the doctors they instructed her to see – including excessive charges for appointmen...

In this week’s episode, TLR President and General Counsel Lee Parsley and TLR Executive Director Mary Tipps welcome a San Antonio resident to share her first-hand story of the “shadow system” that exists between certain personal injury lawyers and certain medical providers – and the impact on victims. TLR Tuesdays is hosted by Lee Parsley and Mary Tipps and features conversations about the Texas l...

In this week’s episode, TLR President and General Counsel Lee Parsley and TLR Executive Director Mary Tipps are joined by JJ Isbell, founder and president of Texas TransEastern, a privately held petroleum logistics firm based in Pasadena, Texas. Parsley, Tipps and Isbell talk about what it’s like to own a business in Texas’s unstable legal environment and how the reforms included in SB 30/HB 4806...

In this week’s episode, TLR President and General Counsel Lee Parsley and TLR Executive Director Mary Tipps define "public nuisance" and explain how SB 779 by Sen. Mayes Middleton protects the Texas Legislature’s authority to set public policy, while preserving the public nuisance doctrine for use when appropriate. TLR Tuesdays is hosted by Lee Parsley and Mary Tipps and features conversations abo...

In this week’s episode, TLR President and General Counsel Lee Parsley and TLR Executive Director Mary Tipps share the facts on SB 30, what the bill does and where it is in the legislative process. TLR Tuesdays is hosted by Lee Parsley and Mary Tipps and features conversations about the Texas litigation environment and the reforms that are crucial to keeping Texas the best place in the nation to li...

In this week’s episode, TLR President and General Counsel Lee Parsley and TLR Executive Director Mary Tipps welcome former Texas Supreme Court Justice Dale Wainwright to discuss the spike in "thermonuclear" and "nuclear" verdicts in Texas — and how this is impacting Texas's civil justice system. TLR Tuesdays is hosted by Lee Parsley and Mary Tipps and features conversations about the Texas litigat...

In this week’s episode, TLR President and General Counsel Lee Parsley and TLR Executive Director Mary Tipps recapped the recent Senate State Affairs Committee hearing on SB 30, in which job creators from all corners of Texas converged at the Capitol to share how lawsuit abuse is impacting their ability to serve Texans. TLR Tuesdays is hosted by Lee Parsley and Mary Tipps and features conversations...

In this week’s episode, TLR President and General Counsel Lee Parsley talks TLR’s legislative agenda and what’s to come in the remaining nine weeks of the Texas Legislative Session. TLR Tuesdays is hosted by Lee Parsley and Mary Tipps and features conversations about the Texas litigation environment and the reforms that are crucial to keeping Texas the best place in the nation to live and to work.

In this week’s episode, TLR President and General Counsel Lee Parsley and TLR Executive Director Mary Tipps talk with Rep. Jeff Leach about important legislation in the 89th Texas Legislature and what’s happening 10 weeks into the session. TLR Tuesdays is hosted by Lee Parsley and Mary Tipps and features conversations about the Texas litigation environment and the reforms that are crucial to keepi...

In this week’s episode, TLR President and General Counsel Lee Parsley and TLR Executive Director Mary Tipps talk about what needs to be accomplished during the 2025 Texas legislative session to realize the Texas Business’s Court full potential.  TLR Tuesdays is hosted by Lee Parsley and Mary Tipps and features conversations about the Texas litigation environment and the reforms that are cruci...

In this week’s episode, TLR President and General Counsel Lee Parsley and TLR Executive Director Mary Tipps discuss the creation of a specialized business court in Texas — and why it is one of the most transformative steps the state has ever taken to strengthen Texas’s economic competitiveness. TLR Tuesdays is hosted by Lee Parsley and Mary Tipps and features conversations about the Texas litigati...

When TLR was formed in 1994, Texas was known as the Wild West of Litigation. Unfortunately, that environment has crept back into our civil justice system. Texas now leads the nation in outrageously large verdicts in injury cases, known as Nuclear Verdicts. These are often handed down in cases in which the plaintiff was at fault or suffered little or no damage. Texas job creators are taking this un...