UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE OF LAW COMMITTEE, Petitioner,
v.
AMERICAN HOME ASSURANCE COMPANY, INC. and The Travelers Indemnity Company, Respondents.
Supreme Court of Texas.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued September 28, 2005.
Decided March 28, 2008.
Rehearing Denied September 26, 2008.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mark A. Ticer, Roger M. Tafel, Law Office of Mark Ticer, Dallas, David E. Keltner, Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP, Fort Worth, TX, for Petitioner.
Thomas C. Wright, Lucy H. Forbes, Wright Brown & Close, LLP, Houston, Jim E. Cowles, R. Michael Northrup, Cowles & Thompson, P.C., Mark S. Whitburn, Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., Suellen Ratliff, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, Dallas, TX, William T. Barker, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Chicago, IL, William V. Dorsaneo III, Richard A. Smith, Lynn Tillotson & Pinker, L.L.P., Dallas, Thomas T. Rogers, Jackson & Walker, L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Respondent.
J. Dennis Chambers, Atchley, Russell, Waldrop & Hlavinka, Texarkana, Stephen E. McConnico, Scott Douglass & McConnico, L.L.P., Patricia Anne Moore, Donald P. Wilcox, Fred C. Bosse, Austin, Thomas S. Leatherbury, Robert C. Walters, Vinson & Elkins L.L.P., Calvin R. "Rod" Phelan II, Baker Botts LLP, Dallas, Jerry P. Campbell, Naman Howell Smith & Lee, Waco, John L. Hill Jr., Winstead Scchrist & Minick, P.C., Maurice Joseph Meynier IV, Law Office of M. Joseph Meynier, IV, Houston, Julia F. Pendery, Attorney At Law, Dallas, Peter M. Kelly, Law Office of Peter M. Kelly, P.C., Houston, Guy D. Choate, Webb, Stokes & Sparks, L.L.P., San Angelo, TX, for Amicus Curiae.
Supreme Court of Texas.
Justice HECHT delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice O'NEILL, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice BRISTER, Justice MEDINA, and Justice WILLETT joined.
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