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It's hard to find an example of a "typical" attorney
-- each has his or her own unique background, experience, and career. And
as you can see here, every lawyer has a story to tell. Stay tuned for
more featured profiles ...
| Richard Alderman |
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| "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." |
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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
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| Colin Amann |
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| "I try not to hit things." |
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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
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| David Armbrust |
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| "Preservation of the environment
is good for business." |
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| 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
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| Leon Barish |
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| "It’s not all about
billable hours. Family and community and pro bono work should be priorities." |
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| 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
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| Dean Blackwood |
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| "Music still matters to
some people." |
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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
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