A Program Note- I'm Sorry

I got divorced a week ago Monday. I have had to move my office from one place in Conroe to another. I am in the process of selling and moving out of my house, and I still have a liberal amount of hard deadline paperwork to get finished before the end of the year. I have not been able to give this blog the attention it deserves, and will likely not yet be up to speed on my ordinary practices until early next year.

Come On in, the Water's Fine

I welcome my friends at Orgain Bell and Tucker LLP to the Texas Ninth Court of Appeals part of the blogosphere with their new blog, Navigating the Ninth, which I have put on our Link List, and wish them luck in helping to keep people informed about an important and neglected part of the Texas court system. The Ninth Court of Appeals covers ten counties:

• Hardin
• Jasper
• Jefferson- county seat Beaumont, where the Ninth Court of Appeals has its offices, courtrooms, and chambers- Jefferson is the second largest county in the Supreme Judicial District and is the primary home of Orgain Bell and Tucker LLP.
• Liberty
• Montgomery- county seat Conroe, the largest county in the Supreme Judicial District where I live and practice
• Newton
• Orange
• Polk
• San Jacinto
• Tyler

Our Montgomery County out here continues to be one of the fastest growing parts of the U.S. and Jefferson County, the main location for Orgain Bell and Tucker, is an absolutely key area for the petrochemical industry and for maritime trade.