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| David W. Spence |
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"Being an attorney gives me a leg up on the competition."
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In her 1961 classic, The Death
and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs set forth a guiding principle
for the nascent historic preservation movement: “New ideas must use
old buildings.” Dallas attorney David W. Spence agrees so strongly
with
Jacobs that old buildings, by economic necessity, serve as incubators for
creative ventures, that he has made her saying the unofficial tagline for
his company, Good Space, Inc., which for the past decade has restored and
operated historic structures
in the Oak Cliff neighborhood just south of downtown. Full
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| Ralph Brock |
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| "Doing Bar work is its
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“It’s
hard to uproot me,” says Ralph Brock, reflecting on why a man
with his myriad interests has remained stimulated by life in Lubbock.
Last month Brock received the State Bar’s Presidents' Award —
one of its highest honors — in recognition of his many and varied
contributions to the Bar. A sole practitioner specializing in appellate
work, he is a current member of the Board of Directors, a former section
representative to the Board, a former secretary of the Computer Law Section,
a former chair of the Appellate Law Section, and a former president of the
Women and the Law Section. Full
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| Jeff Cano |
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The primary argument
for getting law students involved in pro bono work is the assumption that
if you get to them early, they will appreciate the rewards and stay with
it. Jeff Cano provides at least anecdotal evidence to support
that idea.
Cano, of Victoria, is a recent Texas Southern University School of Law graduate
who will be taking the Bar Exam next week. He began working at Lone Star
Legal Aid in Houston as a result of his assignment through an externship
for a clinical class that he was taking in housing and consumer law. Read
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| Hank Card |
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| "I like the variety...And
I’ve done it so long (19-plus years) I guess I like the fact that
I know a lot about administrative law and its intricacies." |
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On most days, you’ll
find Hank Card of Austin presiding over administrative
hearings at the State Office of Hearings and Appeals (SOAH). If he’s
not there, he has likely grabbed his guitar and hit the road with the Austin
Lounge Lizards.
Card and his friend Conrad Deisler formed the band more than 20 years ago
while attending U.T. Law School. Since then, the Lizards have released eight
albums and entertained crowds worldwide with their irreverent brand of bluegrass
music. Full
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| Joan Ely Carlson |
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| "I like Brahms. I like
Rachmaninoff. I like all of the Romantics, really." |
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| A prodigy as a pianist,
attorney Joan Ely Carlson won a competition in the sixth
grade to play a “concertina for small hands” with the Austin
Symphony Orchestra. “I was nervous with anticipation,” she recalls,
“but it passed as soon as I started playing.” Seven years later,
Carlson was a member of the symphony, not as a piano player but as a violinist. Full
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| Jessica Danforth Cottey |
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| "Perhaps by going to law school
I could be more sympathetic to physicians and make some changes in healthcare
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| — Jessican Danforth Cottey, Law student |
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"At the time, all of my friends
thought I was strange," said Jessica Danforth Cottey, a
licensed physician who is now a University of Texas School of Law student.
"Now, I think I was just the tip of the iceberg."
It was during her third year at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical
School at Dallas that Cottey, 28, began to rethink her decision to become
a physician due to what she considers a growing trend state and nationwide.
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