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The city of McKinney's plan to forcibly annex thousands of acres just outside the city limits may violate state law, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton informed city officials Monday.  According to the three-page letter from the attorney general's office, the city's annexation notices and a notice for an Aug. 28 meeting — when the McKinney City Council approved a resolution to consider annexing nearly 6 square miles of rural land in its extraterritorial jurisdiction — violated the Texas Local Government Code and the Open Meetings Act. The attorney general's office asked the city to respond by noon Tuesday. Landowner Harold Clyde, who lives in the proposed annexation area, called the letter the "hottest thing on the Internet" and a "game-changer." Mayor George Fuller called it "suspect" and the timing "odd." On Friday,  Fuller announced in a Facebook post  that he would not be supporting forced annexation. In that post, he lamented

A Virginia-based government contractor fired a marketing executive after a photo of her flipping off a Donald Trump motorcade went viral on social media, raising questions about corporate social media policies and the rights of employees to express views off-duty that instantly can be seen by millions.

Clients have figured out they don't need lawyers. We're all doomed. More bad news for outside counsel. Every quarter we report on the growing gap between the elite Biglaw firms and the rest of the Am Law 200. The outlook for law firms generally remains tepid, but the cream of the crop seem to keep chugging along while the rest increasingly stagnate. Well, if you’ve been looking to connect the dots, that  persistent slowing of demand for legal services , here’s your culprit: 51% of in-house legal teams report that more than half of their legal activities are now conducted internally. The biggest challenge in-house legal teams are trying to solve by bringing more legal services in-house is controlling costs, followed by completing tasks efficiently. The  2017 In-House Legal Benchmarking Report  from Exterro polled a number of in-house legal personnel about their business and found that everyone’s bringing more and more under the company tent as we’ve suspected for some time. And