The timing of Feldman’s resignation will enable him to testify at next month’s trial over the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance. Feldman said he made the decision to resign some time ago, but the trial date of Jan. 19 led him to make it effective Jan. 16.

Trial partners, Cris Feldman and Rusty Hardin, win Texas’ largest verdict in 2010. A $2.8 million breach of contract verdict won by attorneys from Houston’s Rusty Hardin & Associates, P.C., against Stewart Title Guaranty Co. has been named as Texas’ top business law verdict of 2010.

Ending an 18-year saga, a Harris County civil court jury has ruled that Houston does not owe a California absentee landlord $120,000. The Nov. 18 verdict in Harris County Court at Law No. 4 involved a former apartment complex at 8525 Pitner Road, which the city demolished in late 1992 at public expense.