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| Lloyd Lochridge |
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| "I've done a lot, and I've had nice
things happen to me. And I've had more than my share of luck." |
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| Lloyd Lochridge
arches his bushy white eyebrows in amused surprise when asked what he thinks
is his greatest accomplishment. "I'm not sure I have accomplished anything,"
says the senior partner in the Austin firm of McGinnis, Lochridge &
Kilgore, L.L.P. "I've done a lot, and I've had nice things happen to me.
And I've had more than my share of luck." Lochridge hasn't accomplished
"anything" — except helped build a 70-lawyer firm, lead the State
Bar as its president in 1974-75, serve on 11 State Bar committees, and serve
continuously from 1975 to 1997 in the American Bar Association House of
Delegates. Full
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| Matt Martindale |
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| "My dad’s an attorney and my
uncle as well, so I grew up with it. To me, it was the most noble profession
I could pursue." |
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| Just over two years ago, Matt
Martindale was an assistant district attorney in Pampa —
make that the assistant district attorney (it’s a two-man office).
Today he’s on the verge of country music stardom as the lead singer
and songwriter of Cooder Graw, a five-piece band that has become a major
player in the Texas music scene. Everything just kind of happened,”
says Martindale, who formed the band five years ago about the same time
he became an assistant D.A. He met the drummer and bass player in Amarillo,
and they started as “Coup de Grâce,” playing cover songs
ranging from Robert Earl Keen to pop artist Duncan Sheik. Full
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| Joseph McKnight |
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| "Copy out the form and fill in
the blanks. It just shows you that the practice of law hasn’t changed
much over the years." |
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| The next time you consult a legal
form book for help with a fill-in-the-blank pleading, don’t feel like
you’re a shining example of law office efficiency or innovation. Your
historical counterparts were doing the same thing 500 years ago, only in
Latin. Full
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| Richard Pena |
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| We have to look nationally and globally;
we spend too much time concerned about just Texas. In the future, there
will be no state or national boundaries. |
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"There are many important legal
issues nationally that need attention," said Richard Pena,
a former State Bar of Texas president who serves as the Texas delegate to
the American Bar Association.
Pena, who dedicated his presidency to restoring public trust and confidence
in the legal profession, recently attended the 2002 ABA Annual Meeting in
Washington, D.C. He was the first Hispanic to serve as president of the
State Bar of Texas (1998-99). Full
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| Jeff Rusk |
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| "I take only meritorious cases and
have very professional colleagues. The lawyers involved at this level are
all upper echelon and we get along very well." |
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| Austin plaintiff’s attorney
Jeff Rusk lasted less than two weeks in the University of Texas marching
band. It was not that he was unprepared (he had played first chair trumpet
in the Georgetown High School band), nor that he was incompetent, he just
couldn’t bring himself to “run, jump, and flash the ‘Hook’em
Horns!’ sign all the time,” so he quit and joined an experimental
jazz group. Rusk’s marching band experience nicely captures his nonconformity
and his talent. What it fails to reveal is his magnanimity. Full
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| Neil Caldwell |
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"I would like to be remembered
as a fair judge," "always trying to do the right thing.'"
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| Many view the law in black and
white — detailed, precise, descriptive. So does Neil Caldwell, but
from an artistic standpoint. For decades, with pen in hand, the judge has
drawn all that he surveys from behind the bench. Full
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| John R. Pearson |
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“When you have an incurable
disease, you don’t want to sit back,”
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| "I was elated and exhausted,”
60-year-old John R. Pearson said of finishing the two-day, 182-mile
bicycle ride from Houston to Austin. He was elated because his Team Gardere
had raised more than $100,000 for the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society.
He was exhausted because he was diagnosed with MS 11 years ago. Full
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