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Richard Alderman	Jeff Cano	Barbara Hervey	Lloyd Lochridge	Aaron Streett
Colin Amann	Hank Card	Rhonda Hunter	Matt Martindale	John F. Sutton
David Armbrust	Joan Ely Carlson	Wallace Jefferson	Joseph McKnight	Sherman Swartz
Scott Atlas	Jessica Cottey	Jean Johnson	Vickie Milazzo	Suzie Thomas
Leon Barish	Don Davis	John Jones	Roger Moss	Norma Trusch
Dean Blackwood	Larry Doherty	Peggy Kelley	John R. Pearson - Pedaling for a Purpose	Heather Way
The Bradie Firm	J. Chrys Dougherty	David Keltner	Richard Pena	Lori Zimmerman
Ralph Brock	Durwood Edwards	Andy Krafsur	Louise Raggio
William Broussard	Robert H. Etnyre, Jr.	Paul Kruse	Jeff Rusk
Thomas Brown	Lulu Flores	Janice Leverett	Stuart Smith
Neil Caldwell	Phyllis Frye	Amber Liddell	David W. Spence

Richard Alderman

"Law professors spend a lot of time teaching, we don’t get to spend a lot of time helping the public. It allows me to help people."

For more than 20 years, Richard Alderman has devoted his career to educating the public about the law — on the basis that not knowing your legal rights is the same as not having any.

This attitude has gained Alderman, director of the Center for Consumer Law at the University of Houston Law Center, the moniker “The People’s Lawyer.” Through television, radio, newspapers, books, and the Internet, Alderman offers legal information to the public about everything from tenant’s rights to wills. Full Profile

Colin Amann

"I try not to hit things."

Houston attorney Colin Amann, who moonlights as a professional racecar driver, has gleaned two important lessons from his life on the track: it’s useless to apply your brakes while airborne and unwise to undo your seatbelt while upside-down.

Amann appears to have applied these maxims to his life beyond the track as well. He was an avid racecar driver in his youth, but took a 15-year sabbatical to practice law, returning to the sport only after being diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis, a rare liver disorder. At that point, Amann made a commitment to himself to live the remainder of his life “with zest” and to draw as much attention as possible to the efforts of the American Liver Foundation. Full Profile

David Armbrust

"Preservation of the environment is good for business."

From the time he founded Armbrust & Brown, L.L.P. 18 years ago, David Armbrust has vigorously represented developers. For the past few years, he has also worked very hard to help preserve land that he believes should never be developed. Full Profile

Leon Barish

"It’s not all about billable hours. Family and community and pro bono work should be priorities."

On his 40th birthday, Leon Barish swam his first mile. In the nine years since, he has repeated the feat almost daily. “It’s relaxing. It relieves stress. And it’s about the best exercise you can get,” the Austin attorney says. At noon each day, Barish leaves his office on West Sixth Street and makes the short trip to Deep Eddy Pool. A spring-fed oasis, the 100-foot pool has a constant water temperature of 69 degrees. Full Profile

Dean Blackwood

"Music still matters to some people."

Blackwood, legal counsel for Dell Computer Corp. in Austin and owner and co-founder of Revenant Records, is one of those people.

For him, it began as a child growing up in Arlington with an obsession for Stevie Wonder tunes and playing '78s on an old Victrola at his grandparents house.

“I've always had a different relationship with music than others,“ Blackwood said. “My father was a musician, but I had a more intense relationship to listening to music than he did.“ Full Profile

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