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 …
Photo above: George McCleskey pointing to date he filed a water depletion tax case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Welcome to the fifth in a series … our history in the 1960s. Chapter 1: Firm’s beginning. Chapter 2: 1930s. Chapter 3: 1940s. Chapter 4: 1950s. Huge historical events filled the …
(Photo above: Harold Harriger and his daughter Melissa). Welcome to the fourth in a series … this one about the firm’s history in the 1950s. First part about the firm’s beginning. Second part about the 1930s. Third part about the 1940s. He was a self-proclaimed Yankee from Harriger Hollow — in Pennsylvania coal mining country …
One of the lowest points in Ann Stegall’s journey through breast cancer was at a convenience store while driving home from Houston’s MD Anderson Cancer Center after a double mastectomy. (Photo above, Ann Stegall surrounded by family, friends and colleagues after ringing bell, signifying end of radiation treatments.) The surgery two days earlier was also …
Welcome to the third in a series … this one about the firm’s history in the 1940s. Click here for the first part. Click here for the second part. In the photo above, George McCleskey in uniform. Merchant ships cutting through cold and deep North Atlantic waters during World War II sailed a dangerous route …
Welcome to the second in a series … this one about the firm’s history in the 1930s. Click here for the first part. In the photo above, one of the earliest offices of what became the McCleskey Law Firm was in the building to the left of the J.C. Penney Building in downtown Lubbock. This …
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 …
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