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Photo above, from left: McCleskey attorneys Will Griffis, Ann Stegall and John Shanklin, with Jerry Kolander, the firm’s managing partner. John Shanklin put on a Dodger baseball jersey. But it wasn’t easy. Shanklin, a passionate Houston Astros fan, wore the jersey for Jerry Kolander’s Dodger-themed 80th birthday party luncheon this month – attended by their

Garrett Oates is glad to be back home in West Texas, working at McCleskey Law Firm where he’ll add an experienced litigator and areas of practice to the almost 100-year-old firm. Oates joined the firm in September, bringing legal experience across a wide range of areas of law — family law, criminal law, general civil

Photo above: Clinton “Doc” McPherson in his vineyard. Harold Harriger (upper left), Don Graf (lower right at a Llano Estacado Winery event years after the McCleskey Law Firm helped launch the winery). Welcome to the seventh in a series about McCleskey’s history … this chapter on the 1970s. Chapter 1: Firm’s beginning. Chapter 2: 1930s.

Clancy Brazill. Welcome to the sixth in a series about McCleskey’s history … this chapter on the 1970 Lubbock tornado. A separate story on the rest of the ’70s will follow soon. Chapter 1: Firm’s beginning. Chapter 2: 1930s. Chapter 3: 1940s. Chapter 4: 1950s. Chapter 5: 1960s. The following was taken from the late

Fall is the time of year many attorneys who graduate from law school in spring find out if they passed the bar and can start their careers. It brought back some stories of stress – and joy for our attorneys. John Shanklin: Mixing bar results with pregnancy exam The day he was supposed to find

When Kent Hale played NCAA Division I golf for the University of Arizona in the 1970s, he joined attorneys from a Tucson law firm for 18 holes. “They told me I need to go to law school so I could play with their clients,” said Hale. A law firm having a former Arizona Wildcat practicing