Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put ‘PHOTO ID REQUIRED.’ When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts, DO NOT put the complete account number on the ‘For’ line. Instead, just put the last four numbers.  The credit card company knows the rest of the number, [...] Read More

This is an intriguing quote following a long and contentious criminal trial with an interesting insight into a juror’s mind. In the end, a Motion for New Trial was overruled. I think you may see why judges are so loath to grant new trials. We, the jury, spent 18 days on the case. I didn't pick my [...] Read More

A new law signed by Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this summer goes into effect next week, banning texting and driving in every county in Texas. “By enacting this public safety legislation, the governor is saving lives by deterring this dangerous and deadly behavior," said State Representative Tom [...] Read More

There are 398,787 active oil and gas field facilities in Texas. Within a half-mile of these facilities, there are: 3 million Texans 904 schools 78 medical facilities Research shows proximity to oil and gas facilities is connected to a variety of health issues that arise within a [...] Read More

Something all Texans should know. Your Texas Driver License has a phone number on the back, just above the barcode on the lower right side: 1-800-525-5555. (It’s VERY SMALL PRINT, but it IS there.) This number can be called for emergency assistance on the highway or wherever you might have [...] Read More

Martin Luther King preached about The fierce urgency of now. What does this law firm do when we have the chance to make a difference – all the difference? We respond. We at the Law Office of Bob Osburn have responded to tragedy and have over 44 years of success representing those injured and [...] Read More

Over the past few years, a host of innovations in automotive safety and improvements to roads have resulted in an overall decline in driver and passenger fatalities.   But, unfortunately, although automotive safety has improved, pedestrians have become increasingly vulnerable.  In fact, a recently [...] Read More

Truck drivers crash daily. Construction workers fall or get crushed. Refinery workers die in explosions. Oil field workers fall from the platform. No one in Texas knows how many injured workers there are – unreported and underreported – swept under the rug. And no one knows how the worker’s [...] Read More

The Texas Legislature by law of June 15, 2015, changed the way discovery is conducted regarding a defendant’s net worth. See 41.0115 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code requires the party seeking net worth discovery to first demonstrate and obtain a finding from the trial court that [...] Read More