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Judge says negligent audit caused bigger bank losses

On March 14, 2007, Mullin Hoard & Brown lawyers David Mullin, John Brown and Clint Latham won a major victory for the FDIC in a malpractice suit against accounting giant Grant Thornton, LLP, when after a lengthy trial, Judge David Faber entered Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law determining that Grant Thornton had blown its audit of the First National Bank of Keystone and caused $25 million in damages.

Redacted Supplemental Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law Related to Grant Thronton's Motion for a Settlement Credit - March 10, 2010
Judge says negligent audit caused bigger bank losses, Associated Press, March 15, 2007
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Grant Thornton, LLP v. F.D.I.C--Reported Version

Trustee Says Blixseth ‘Doomed' Yellowstone Club, The Wall Street Journal, February 24, 2010

Texas, D.C. and Haiti Lawyers Work to Free Amarillo Man Jailed After Earthquake, Texas Lawyer, February 10, 2010

Kirk D. Jenkins v. National Board of Medical Examiners

Kirk Jenkins, a third year medical student, was diagnosed at a young age with a reading disorder.  In preparation for Stage 1 for the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), he requested additional time on the exam from the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) and was denied.  Mr. Jenkins sought an injuction in district court and lost.  His case was in appeal when the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was amended.  His case was remanded to district court for further consideration under the new amendments.  Click here to read the opinion.

Vincent E. Nowak represents medical students seeking accommodations on the USMLE Step 1 & 2 Exams from the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). These cases typically involve students with reading disabilities seeking to enforce their rights under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Usually the accommodations sought are extra time to take the medical exams. Mr. Nowak was the first lawyer in the country to win a remand in federal appellate court since the enactment of the ADA amendment act earlier this year.

Graves murder re-trial delayed

The re-trial for a man who spent more than a decade on death row accused of capital murder will have to wait a little longer, attorneys for both sides agreed Tuesday during a pre-trial hearing at the Burleson County Courthouse.

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MHB gets bail cut for death row inmate

Mullin Hoard & Brown lawyers David Mullin, Robert Bell and Larry Doss are fighting to vindicate an innocent man who has been on death row for 14 years. In March 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit vacated the capital murder conviction of Anthony Graves, finding that the prosecution in Graves' trial had suborned perjury and concealed exculpatory evidence. The State is attempting to retry Graves in Burleson County. Recently Mullin Hoard & Brown obtained a writ of mandamus from the Waco Court of Appeals vacating an unconstitutional gag order entered by the District Judge.

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