Texas Law Updates
By Michael Pezzulli and Charles J. Fortunado
State Bar of Texas: Advanced Creditors’ Rights presentation – September, 1996
In the past ten years, the gulf between criminal practice and civil practice has narrowed considerably.There are several causes for this. One is the explosion of white collar criminal litigation. More pervasive use of forfeiture statutes in the pursuit of attorney’s fees has also served to bring civil litigators under the purview of criminal law. The savings and loan and drug crises have also done their part to bring civil litigators’ conduct under scrutiny of criminal statutes.