Christopher Kratovil

It’s Time for Geographic Diversity in SCOTX Appointments

Gov. Abbott will soon make his third appointment in five years to the Texas Supreme Court. Some want him to make diversity a priority. Six of the current eight justices are white, non-Hispanic men. There’s another, more subtle form of diversity that has also, for too long, been overlooked in appointing justices: geographic diversity.

August 12, 2019 Christopher Kratovil

Big Law, A Sweat Suit Summer and Bringing Down the Tyranny of the Tie

During the Summer of 1998, Dallas endured 56 days of 100-degree weather. That same summer Chris Kratovil entered Big Law at Hughes & Luce. The memory of that summer was the beginning of the Tyranny of the Tie and Kratovil, who now manages a law firm office, is glad not to go back.

June 7, 2019 Christopher Kratovil