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THANK YOU and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Every year around the holidays, those of us at Sammons & Berry, P.C., pause to offer thanks to you – the Client – without whom our business could not exist. We fully recognize that we are working for you and appreciate the trust and confidence you have placed in our firm by allowing us to

Forced Arbitration: How Corporations Use the Fine Print to Bully Americans

(Editor’s note: The following reposted from www.justice.org) Buried in your credit card agreement, your employment contract, or in the click through agreement in your online purchase, is almost certainly a forced arbitration clause designed to trick you out of your constitutional rights. Forced arbitration requires Americans to “agree” to surrender fundamental constitutional rights without ever
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Congress Seeks to Take Away Individual’s Right to Sue

Dear friends, The Republican-led U.S. Congress has recently introduced a bill designed to drastically limit the legal rights of all Americans.  The restrictions that Congress is intending to implement will strip away the rights of Americans like you and your family to pursue legal actions against large corporations for claims involving discrimination, pharmaceutical and medical
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Texas Workers Comp System Questioned After Oklahoma Ruling

by Nicole Cobler, The Texas Tribune Sept. 20, 2016 In the wake of an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision striking down part of that state’s workers’ compensation law, Texas is now the only state that lets private companies opt out of a state-run system and draw up their own plans to compensate injured workers. Before the ruling, Oklahoma had been the only