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| David Keltner |
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| "I would practice
law as a hobby, if it weren't my profession." |
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Keltner is a busy appellate attorney, but also demonstrates his enthusiasm
for the practice of law by devoting hundreds of volunteer hours as a CLE
course director and speaker, as a local, state, and national bar leader,
and as a legal author whose articles have appeared in state and national
publication.
At the State Bar annual meeting June 13-15 in Dallas, Keltner received the
Gene Cavin Award for excellence in continuing legal education, and the Dan
Rugeley Price Memorial Award for his "unreserved commitment to clients and
the legal profession." Full
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| Andy Krafsur |
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| "This will
either be a complete disaster or a wild success." |
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Clients who walk into a conference
room at the firm of Krafsur Gordon Mott, P.C., find stadium seats from Boston
Garden, Yankee Stadium, and the Sun Bowl. It's not your typical conference
room. In fact, other sports memorabilia displayed throughout the offices
make the firm atypical.
Andy Krafsur, a bankruptcy trustee lawyer, is the founding shareholder of
Krafsur Gordon Mott, P.C., in El Paso. He is not only a senior partner in
the firm, he is also a collector of sports memorabilia and president and
CEO of ShoeSpring, an athletic shoe manufacturer. Full
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| Paul Kruse |
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| "Most of our
business is done with a handshake." |
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"We really do eat all we can and sell the rest," says Paul Kruse (pronounced
"Crew-zee"), vice president, secretary, and general counsel of Blue Bell
Creameries, headquartered in Brenham.
Kruse not only joins the 800 employees in eating ice cream at the creamery,
but also has ice cream every evening after dinner with his wife and three
children, ages 5, 8, and 10. Full
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| Janice Leverett |
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living in a world where I couldn’t trust. I realized I had to understand
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Some clients might be surprised
to find out that their attorney’s musical tastes range from electronica
to country, but if your attorney is Janice Leverett you might encourage
it.
Leverett, 30, is head of the intellectual property department of Soules
& Wallace, P.C., in San Antonio, where she also practices transactional
law, corporate law, and entertainment law. She handles cases involving patent,
copyright, and trademark prosecution, licensing, and client counseling,
as well as contracts and franchising agreements. Full
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| Amber Liddell |
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not a better position for me. I get to talk about the law all day long." |
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Four years ago, Bexar
County administrators discussed how to make the courts more efficient and
effective for pro se litigants, as well as the courts. They decided to hire
a staff attorney whose function would be to review orders and prepare the
pro se docket. They hired Amber Liddell.
Liddell, just two years out of law school, arrived at the Bexar County District
Courthouse in January 1999. She had worked for several sole practitioners
while attending St. Mary’s University School of Law, and had been
in private practice — mostly handling family law cases — after
being admitted to the Texas Bar in 1996. Full
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| John F. Sutton, Jr. |
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"There are always some new wrinkles,
some new cases, new approaches, new attitudes — that’s the fun
of teaching.”
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| When John F. Sutton, Jr. enrolled
in the University of Texas School of Law in 1938, the only admission requirement
was completion of two years of college with a “C” average. There
were no LSATs, tuition cost $25 per semester, and grades were posted to
the bulletin board. The school’s top five or six graduates received
job offers from law firms that paid $75-150 per month. Of the 300 students
in Sutton’s entering class, one-third flunked out the first year.
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