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Understanding Texas State Regulations for the Alcohol Industry and Beyond
Robert Eckels Joins TABC as Chairman
Big news for Texas and its alcohol industry: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Robert Eckels to serve as Chairman of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Industry. I grew up in the Harris County that Eckels led from 1995 to 2007 as County Judge. Under his leadership, the modern Houston landscape developed into the powerhouse it is…
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Testifying as an Alcohol Industry Expert Federal Bankruptcy Court
Since September 2017, my practice has focused on the alcohol industry – first as the regulator at TABC, and now as private counsel getting businesses open and operating legally and successfully. So when I was asked to testify as an expert witness in federal bankruptcy court about the tail end of a business’s life cycle,…
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Senate Bill 3 is Personal, pt. 2.
Let me tell you about how all CBD helps manage MTLE. In my first Distilled post about SB3, I shared my story of living with medial lobe temporal epilepsy (MTLE). I lived without a diagnosis for years despite frequent MTLE seizures. Years later, after a particularly hellish seizure, I was diagnosed and had access to…
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