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Talmage Boston – Lawyer, Historian, Baseball Fan, Writer – Cross-Examines History

Talmage Boston is living the dream of many lawyers. He’s a partner at a large corporate law firm. He has authored four books. And he has Henry Kissinger, Ken Burns and David McCullough in his Rolodex.

Boston’s newest book, Cross Examining History: A Lawyer Gets Answers From the Experts About Our Presidents, combines the 63-year-old’s expertise in questioning witnesses in the courtroom with his passion for presidential history.

The Texas Lawbook has exclusive video of Boston discussing his love of baseball cards, his big victories in court and the details of his new book and the journey he took in writing it.

Exclusive: General Counsel Forum Honors Hunt GC David Hernandez for Ethics

Dallas billionaire Ray L. Hunt told 300 business lawyers Tuesday night attending the General Counsel Forum’s annual Robert H. Dedman Award for Ethics and Law that he’s not a lawyer and has “no clue what general counsel do, but I know that you could not have picked a better person [to honor] than David Hernandez.” In an exclusive interview with The Texas Lawbook, Hernandez discusses his career, his worries about the legal profession and the reasons he became a lawyer. Plus, we have photos from the GC Forum gala.

Ten Things GCs Need to Know: How to Market the Legal Dept. to the Business

It sucks being a cost center. General counsel can argue all day about the value the legal department is adding to the company, but it is still a cost center to the business. If executives see Legal as just a cost center, it could feel the budget axe when times get tough.

This edition of “Ten Things” discusses basic and straight-forward ways you can “market” the legal department to the business in order to help them understand what the department does and the value it brings to the company.

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