Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Special to The Texas Lawbook
AUSTIN (April 18) – Retired Texas Chief Justice Jack Pope, who helped establish formal judicial education for Texas judges, fought for a voluntary judicial-ethics code when judges had none and fought again to make that code mandatory and enforceable, celebrated his 100th birthday.
Scott Upchurch and John Sheppard are the first lawyers to be promoted to partner at the six-year-old Houston litigation boutique.
“The job has changed in recent times,” he says, giving a nod to the recent controversy within the UT Board of Regents.
Less than two years ago, the Kansas City-based firm was barely a blip on the radar screen when it entered the Texas legal market with other giant firms–Latham & Watkins, Gibson Dunn and Sidley Austin. But Polsinelli had a solid strategic plan that is yielding early success.
Tom Clancy once distinguished the difference between fiction and reality: “Fiction has to make sense.” That truism has sometimes posed a challenge for attorney and author Mike Farris, a complex commercial litigator at Vincent Lopez Serafino Jenevein in Dallas, especially when his fictional characters are lawyers. Of course, therein lies the reason that the public loves to read legal thrillers, Farris says. In books, as in life, lawyers can be good guys and bad guys. Read on.
Tom Clancy once distinguished the difference between fiction and reality: “Fiction has to make sense.” That truism has sometimes posed a challenge for attorney and author Mike Farris, a complex commercial litigator at Vincent Lopez Serafino Jenevein in Dallas, especially when his fictional characters are lawyers. Of course, therein lies the reason that the public loves to read legal thrillers, Farris says. In books, as in life, lawyers can be good guys and bad guys. Read on.
On April 9, 1973, Pete Winstead, Chuck McGuire and Bill Sechrest opened Winstead McGuire & Sechrest. Today, Winstead has nine offices and over 300 attorneys. Here is a letter sent today from Kevin Sullivan, Winstead’s Managing Partner, to the firm’s lawyers and staff celebrating 40 years.
The Graves Dougherty partner brews beer at home and was searching a craft brewery’s website for locations to buy its beer. Kennedy was surprised that he could not find the information. “There literally was a page that said, ‘We can’t tell you.’ I thought: That can’t be right,” Kennedy recalls. “I thought that was clearly violating the First Amendment.” The rest of this story? Kennedy’s legal practice has been reshaped along with some Texas laws.
The former Dallas mayor and U.S. Trade Ambassador is eyed as being the legal industry’s next Bob Strauss or Vernon Jordan because of his global government and business contacts – and, of course, his personal relationship with the president of the United States.
Larger law firms are increasingly getting into blogging – especially as a business development tool.
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