News Archives - McCleskey Law Firm

McCleskey’s litigation team has extensive experience when it’s time to go to court

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 by Terry Greenberg

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 …

Celebrating 95 years: How McCleskey developed a sophisticated, respected litigation practice

January 19, 2023January 3, 2023 by Terry Greenberg

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 …

Award for legal ethics, civility named for late Don Griffis

November 10, 2022 by Terry Greenberg

Don Griffis had a reputation as an excellent and trustworthy attorney and his name will live on as an example of ethics and civility in practicing law. After Don passed away on Oct. 3 at the age of 80, the Central West Texas Chapter of the American Board of Trial Attorneys named a new award …

McCleskey continues history of providing legal aid for people who can’t afford it

March 22, 2022 by Terry Greenberg

People come to Legal Aid of Northwest Texas with anxiety-laden issues – landlord-tenant disputes, divorces, property issues and more. McCleskey Law Firm attorneys have eased that anxiety over the decades – one of only a handful of Lubbock law firms that help. “We’re glad McCleskey is one of our sponsors,” said Christina Richey, Equal Justice …

What kind of business? Let’s have a chat about risk

February 21, 2022February 18, 2022 by Terry Greenberg

You want to start a business. Sole proprietorship? LLC? S Corp? C Corp? Limited partnership? How much risk are you taking on? How does this affect your taxes? The McCleskey Law Firm – which has launched thousands of businesses in more than 90 years of practicing law – can help a businessperson make the right …

Learn From Our Experience: ‘If you die without a will’ …

January 22, 2023November 18, 2021 by Terry Greenberg

No matter how young you are or how little you own, McCleskey attorney Ben Davidson advises getting a will. Now. If you don’t think you need to, Davidson has a heartbreaking, frustrating story about a client from his hometown of Littlefield that will change your mind. A married couple, both teachers, had two children and …

EEOC answers key ‘vax’/workplace issue, but it’ll take time for others to be decided

June 24, 2021 by Terry Greenberg

USA Today headline: 178 health care workers suspended from Houston Methodist hospital system for refusing COVID-19 vaccination Wall Street Journal headline: Texas hospital system can require employees to get Covid-19 vaccine, judge rules … federal judge upheld Houston Methodist’s vaccine requirement and said lawsuit’s legal assertions lacked merit Houston Chronicle headline: 153 Houston Methodist workers fired, …

Tommy Swann retires from McCleskey after 41 years

January 20, 2021January 13, 2021 by Terry Greenberg

Tommy Swann has told the story many times. Shortly after joining the McCleskey Law Firm in 1979, bankruptcy laws changed. The late Harold Harriger told Tommy he’d be the firm’s bankruptcy lawyer, asking him to learn the changes. Tommy’s practiced law in many other areas in more than 40 years at the firm, but his …

Jerry Kolander enjoying his Dodger wall even more after World Series victory

November 30, 2020 by Terry Greenberg

Jerry Kolander listened to the 1952 World Series on a radio his grandfather had given him. It was a plug-in-the-socket radio – before transistor radios. “The Brooklyn Dodgers lost to the New York Yankees,” said Kolander of a time when the closest Major League Baseball teams to West Texas were the St. Louis Cardinals and …

The four names behind the McCleskey Law Firm

November 3, 2020 by Terry Greenberg

For roughly the first half of its history, the McCleskey Law Firm’s name changed often – depending who led the firm. In 1972 the name changed to McCleskey, Harriger, Brazill & Graf and even though three of those legendary Lubbock lawyers have passed on – the name has not changed since. “I have great respect …