Terry Greenberg 
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 …
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 …
Jerry Kolander becomes third McCleskey attorney given Lubbock Bar Association’s Denton Award … named for Supreme Court justice who was father of Kolander’s pal when they were growing up in Amarillo When Jerry Kolander was growing up in Amarillo, he had a friend named Tommy Denton. They played sports together through junior high and at …
Welcome to the first of a series about the firm’s history. We begin with our founder’s humble beginnings. When Hobert Nelson opened his Tahoka law office on May 25, 1928, he started what became the McCleskey Law Firm, which today celebrates 95 years of serving Lubbock, West Texas and beyond. Hobert’s family arrived in East …
When the McCleskey Law Firm hired Texas Tech School of Law student Scout Blosser as a law clerk this spring semester, more than a couple of the firm’s attorneys were curious about her first name. Was it connected to the main character’s daughter in the book and movie “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which inspired not …
Probate is the legal process of inheritance. It’s also a word that strikes fear in people – coming on the heels of someone’s death, it can take time, money and be emotionally challenging. Here’s what you need to know – from two of our experts – on how to possibly avoid probate and what to …
This is a companion piece to our recent 95th anniversary story on how McCleskey built its litigation practice. Building on its impressive history of litigation, Ben Davidson and Ann Stegall are the McCleskey Law Firm’s full-time litigators now, both members of the prestigious American Board Of Trial Attorneys. Other McCleskey attorneys who do some litigation …
This is the first in a series of articles the McCleskey Law Firm’s history as we approach our 95th anniversary. See companion story on where McCleskey’s litigation practice is now. The McCleskey Law firm has practiced litigation – which generally means taking a case to trial – since it began almost 95 years ago. After a …