In the wake of a Texas Supreme Court opinion, an inventor is seeking to revive his $100 million suit against his former lawyers. Vernon F. Minton, who lost a state court malpractice suit against lawyers who represented him a decade ago, has filed a negligence suit in federal court.

Just a decade ago, China’s rise as an economic superpower still seemed uncertain. Back then, the China practice of major international firms was still mainly the province of the Old China Hands — lawyers who perhaps had a deeper affinity for Chinese language and culture than the practice of law — who focused on representing foreign companies opening factories and shops in China.

Under scrutiny from a U.S.

A law firm that mass-produced collection letters and litigation documents violated the federal debt collection act in a matter it filed a decade ago, a New York federal judge has ruled. The judge found supporting evidence for the conclusion that collection letter and litigation documents were “regularly” produced in volume “by non-lawyers at the push of a button.” Upton, Cohen & Slamowitz — now known as Cohen & Slamowitz — had not decided as of Wednesday whether to appeal, an attorney for the firm said.