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The Mentor: Jim Coleman Turns 90


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By Mark Curriden
Senior Writer for The Texas Lawbook

(May 21) – Jim Coleman has tried hundreds of jury trials over six decades of practicing law. He has defended huge corporations, including Oscar Wyatt’s Coastal States in 1972 in a multi-billion-dollar trial. Scores of lawyers in trouble have called him for help. He fired clients when he learned they hid evidence from the court and when they refused to allow women lawyers at his firm to work on their case. Simply put, no lawyer has influenced the legal profession or lawyers more.

On Thursday, Coleman turns 90. “I know my clock is running down,” he says. This is Jim Coleman's story.

Extend & Pretend – Texas Business Bankruptcies Plummet… For Now


bk1 By Mark Curriden
Senior Writer for The Texas Lawbook

(May 14) – Bankruptcy filings by Texas businesses continue to decline and that is having a negative financial impact on Texas law firms with significant bankruptcy practices. But legal experts predict there’s a potential wave of new corporate bankruptcy cases headed this way in 2014 and 2015. The number of companies in the Northern and Southern Districts that filed to reorganize and restructure during the past 15 months dropped 40 percent.
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