About Carlos Harrison

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Carlos Harrison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, two-time Emmy nominee, and author of 16 books ranging from biographies to legal issues (e.g. The Ghosts of Hero Street, Trained to Kill and The Memorandum). A graduate of the University of South Florida, his articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Miami Herald, People, and other publications. Several of his articles for Super Lawyers have won awards from the Society for Professional Journalists.

Articles written by Carlos Harrison

Protecting Your Child from International Parental Child Abduction

Securing your child’s return goes beyond normal family law

It’s a terrifying but real possibility—especially in Texas: A parent in a broken relationship kidnaps the couple’s child and flees to a foreign country. It could be months or even years before the child is returned. So much depends upon where they flee. “Whatever court order they get in Texas is not going to be recognized in, for example, China,” says Houston family law attorney Laura Dale. “Now, that doesn’t mean that Texas can’t issue an order, and that parent might be …

‘Our Powers for Good’

How Kyle Farrar and Mark Bankston won a $49 million jury award against InfoWars for Sandy Hook parents

Houston attorneys Kyle Farrar and Mark Bankston knew taking on Alex Jones and InfoWars would put them on the front line of a national culture war. At the time, Bankston recalls, the incendiary right-wing internet and radio personality “was at the height of his powers,” with an audience in the millions worldwide. “The idea of holding InfoWars accountable for telling a lie at that point was sort of a revolutionary idea.” So they anticipated the threats, accusations and conspiracy theories …

The People Part

Elaine Bucher is as knowledgeable as they come on estate law, but it’s the human side that sets her apart

In Elaine Bucher’s spare, orderly office, two equidistant chairs—angled symmetrically—face a desk that’s practically pristine. Four photos of her family are spaced evenly on a shelf behind the desk, and a recently acquired painting of a dancer—a gift—bears the words: “And one day she discovered that she was fierce and strong and full of fire … and her passion burned brighter than her fears.” Together, the pictures, the painting and the punctilious office reflect the vital …

Land of Opportunity

Andrés Correa believes that’s an ideal worth striving for

Andrés Correa remembers the violence: first as a child in Chile, when the military fired on protesters trying to oust dictator Augusto Pinochet; then as an immigrant in a poor neighborhood in New Orleans, where Correa witnessed two knifings. “It was not the America I had seen in the movies,” says Correa, now a commercial litigator and the first Latino partner at Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann in Dallas. “It was very visible that there was inequality and injustice in the United …

Raoul Cantero's Supreme Detour

The first Hispanic justice on the state’s high court set out to be more Grisham than gavel-wielder

The first Hispanic justice on Florida’s Supreme Court didn’t set out to make history—at least, not in the legal arena. “My ambition was to be a writer, a novelist, a sometime-guest on The Tonight Show.” That’s how Raoul Cantero put it in a bio for his undergraduate alma mater. On a recent spring day, he adds, “The last part was a joke, but the novelist part was absolutely true.”  Getting a law degree was just a way to pay the bills until he made it as an author. The …

Forward March

Two decades have brought big change—including a Hague custody niche—to Zashin & Rich

Two decades ago, when Andrew Zashin suggested taking on Hague Convention international child-custody cases, his father, Robert, didn’t exactly see the upside. Robert had co-founded the Cleveland family and employment law firm now run by sons Andrew and Stephen. “He said, ‘I just don’t see how this is going to work. There aren’t enough cases,’” recalls Andrew, the elder son. “I said, ‘Dad, there are more than people realize.” The problem, he said, was that lawyers and courts …

‘A True Advocate’

Whether uncovering appealable flaws or improving life for foster children, Marcy Hogan Greer infuses her work with passion

You could say Marcy Hogan Greer came to the law by way of the Middle Ages. But she has spent much of her career fighting to make sure that how we treat women, children and the poor doesn’t stay stuck there. Despite having an attorney/law professor for a father, she didn’t plan on becoming a lawyer herself. She left her hometown of Houston—named, incidentally, after her great-great-great-grandfather, Sam Houston—to pursue her love of language and the past, double-majoring in history and …

Second to None

To overcome racism, Elaine Johnson James' mother told her, she'd have to work harder than everybody else. She did.

On her first day at a new high school in 1965, Elaine Johnson James was met by a welcoming committee of sorts: picketers, carrying protest signs and shouting racial slurs at her as she made her way to the door. She was among the first group of Black children to enter a formerly all-white school on Chicago’s South Side. She was 12. Yes, 12. We’ll get back to that. When she got home, her father asked if she had been afraid. “I told him, ‘No, I was annoyed,’” she recalls. She’s been …

Speaking for Survivors

Richard Schulte and Michael Wright represent sexual-abuse victims of former OSU physician Richard Strauss

The allegations of abuse spanned 20 years. Twenty more passed before Ohio State University publicly acknowledged them and launched an investigation that identified 177 victims. All young male athletes. Wrestlers, fencers, swimmers and more. OSU students mostly, but high schoolers, too.  That was just the beginning. The findings triggered a cascade of suits accusing former athletic department physician Richard Strauss of groping, raping or otherwise sexually abusing students. More than 500 have …

Getting Tech Off the Ground

Airbus’ flying car is just one of the cutting-edge projects Sasha Rao gets to work on 

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s a pilotless urban air vehicle whisking commuters to their destinations.  OK, so not yet. But if that Jetsons-style future ever gets off the ground, it will be thanks in part to people like Sasha Rao, who says the biggest obstacle is not the swiftly developing technology, it’s the law. “There are probably over 50, probably a hundred companies in the [electric aircraft] space,” says Rao, who practices intellectual property litigation at Maynard, …

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