William Buck, the GC of Exxon Mobil Corporation’s Upstream Companies, has a message for corporate legal departments: Do your fair share of pro bono. The new Houston Bar Foundation chair, who specializes in transactional law, says, “I plan to remind all companies that we in-house lawyers also have pro bono obligations. We in-house lawyers are more than capable of handling some of these pro bono needs.”
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Cantey Hanger's Stephanie Harrison Elected Fellow of Texas Bar Foundation
Harrison, a graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law, joins approximately 8,500 other Fellows.
Zoe Littlepage: A Career of Winning Verdicts and Sending Messages to Corporate Boardrooms
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