Brett Shew Law

05/10/2026

01/06/2026

Happy birthday, January 6, to the most wonderful mother, Naomi Marie Shew! Thank you, Mom, for everything. "She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue." (Proverbs 31:26). I love you!

06/01/2025

“Texas, our Texas, all hail the mighty state…”

Texas property owners can use nearly as much water under their land as they want. That’s unlikely to change even as the state approaches a crisis.LUBBOCK — Every winter, after the sea of cotton has been harvested in the South Plains and the ground looks barren, technicians with the High Plains U...

05/31/2025

“It’s pretty astonishing, and it’s a bad name and a bad look for our criminal justice system,” said Natasha Malik, a criminal justice policy attorney for the nonprofit Texas Appleseed. “It makes you wonder: What evidence did you have? It must have been weak or you didn’t have any at all.”

May 31, 2025 BY TONY PLOHETSKI, AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN Travis County prosecutors have 90 days to indict or release. They missed that deadline 263 times in 2024. Austin American-Statesman

05/16/2025

Dad would have been 87 today. I cannot put into words how much we miss him. "In the stillness of the midnight, precious sacred scenes unfold."

05/04/2024

Greg Kelley, who was exonerated after being wrongfully convicted of assaulting a child, still has nightmares that he is behind bars. But the former Leander ...