Lawyers Mourn Loss of South Texas Legal Legend Morris Atlas

© 2015 The Texas Lawbook.By Mark Curriden   (Oct. 6) – For six decades, Morris Atlas was the lawyer to see in South Texas.   Big corporations from across the globe facing potentially crippling lawsuits hired him to save their businesses. Candidates for public office cherished his endorsement. Lawyers who wanted judicial appointments desired his blessing.   State legislators debating significant reforms to the legal system sought his guidance. He rejected offers of federal judgeships. And he founded the law firm Atlas, Hall & Rodriguez, which is the largest law firm in South Texas with 35 lawyers and three offices.   Atlas died Sunday at his home in McAllen. He was 88.   Scott Atlas, his son and a lawyer in Houston, said that his father had been ill for a couple years, but that he died peacefully in his sleep with his family gathered around.   “My dad was a remarkable role model,” said Scott Atlas, who was a partner at Vinson & Elkins and Jones Day and is now the CEO of Atlas Counsel Search. “He never told us how to act. He showed us how to act. He taught us by example.”   Atlas, who was elected…