( January 9, 2026, 8:05 AM EST) -- SAN ANTONIO — A Texas appellate panel has ruled that a trial court did not err when it granted summary judgment on negligence claims brought by a family against a law firm in connection with its negotiation of a hydraulic fracturing lease on the family’s behalf because the family failed to file a timely response to the firm’s no evidence summary judgment motion. The panel also determined that the family’s claims for deceptive trade practices and breach of fiduciary failed because they were “fractured negligence claims cast as different causes of action.”...