Southeast Texas Record

OUR GOAL at the The Southeast Texas Record is to cover Southeast Texas' legal system in a way that enables you, our readers, to make the public business your business. As the region's first and only legal journal, The Record will focus upon civil actions in our courts. Torts- as they're known-- are too often ignored by the prevailing media, yet their progress has a profound impact on the people of greater Beaumont and Port Arthur. We aim to protect the public's interest by reporting on Southeast Texas' civil justice system thoroughly and vigorously. To be sure, whether one agrees or disagrees with the happenings at all of our courthouses, no one should believe that what happens at them is the norm. Jefferson County's courts regularly rank among the most litigious in the land. This doesn't mean to suggest that normal always means good. In many cases throughout American history the norm has meant the wrong course. The country's greatest leaders have often been maligned for deviance long before receiving credit for courage and vision.