Randy Johnston, Robert Tobey and Chad Baruch Receive Honor DALLAS – All three name partners at Dallas law firm Johnston Tobey Baruch – Randy Johnston, Robert Tobey and Chad Baruch – have been named to the list of the Best Lawyers in Dallas 2021 by D Magazine. Mr. Johnston and Mr. Tobey are honored in […]

DALLAS – All lawyers with trial and appellate firm Johnston Tobey Baruch have been selected to the 2021 Texas Super Lawyers list, with shareholders Chad Baruch and Randy Johnston earning special honors by the peer-review guide to leading lawyers. Mr. Baruch, an appellate specialist, made the Super Lawyers list of Top 100 attorneys in the […]

Few lawyers remember much about the political-question doctrine beyond what they learned during their first year of law school. On the rare occasions that the doctrine is litigated, it usually occurs in a federal court rather than the state-court system. But in a rare exception to the mine run of cases involving the political-question doctrine, […]

JTB appellate partner, Chad Baruch, won a reversal of a defendant’s summary judgment in the Fifth Circuit last week. The case involved the widow of the Dallas physician. In a federal lawsuit, the widow alleges that her deceased husband’s practice-management company failed to pay the invoice on a life-insurance policy, resulting in its lapse. She […]

Section 18.001 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code allows a claimant to submit to the jury the issue of the reasonableness of medical expenses without the need for an expert by filing a statutorily compliant affidavit. The defendant may avoid this abbreviated procedure by filing a statutorily compliant counter-affidavit. Three questions arose under […]