Attorney Alan Burow has joined the McCleskey Law Firm as a litigator, after spending eight years as a prosecutor with the Lubbock County District Attorney’s Office. Burow originally came to Lubbock for college, but before that he spent time living in Ukraine and speaks multiple languages. Burow graduated from Texas Tech Law School in 2018, …
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 …
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 …