News Archives - McCleskey Law Firm

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

March 22, 2022 by MccAdmin

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 MccAdmin

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’ …

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 by MccAdmin

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 MccAdmin

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 MccAdmin

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 MccAdmin

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 MccAdmin

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 …

Will Griffis joins Shannon Hospital Community Board

September 21, 2020 by MccAdmin

McCleskey Attorney Will Griffis has joined the Shannon West Texas Memorial Hospital Community Board of Directors in San Angelo. Griffis is based in McCleskey’s San Angelo office, which opened a year ago after Griffis and his family returned to the area where he grew up. “It’s an honor for them to consider me to be …

McCleskey celebrates 90 years

August 3, 2020July 28, 2020 by MccAdmin

Click here to read the 2018 Lubbock Avalanche-Journal story.

Our history goes back to 1928 …

May 23, 2021April 24, 2020 by MccAdmin

A lot has changed since Hobert Nelson opened a law office in tiny Tahoka in 1928 – which eventually became Lubbock’s prestigious McCleskey Law Firm. Decades later, the firm is much bigger and the attorneys don’t always wear a suit and a tie. But some things have never changed. We’re a full-service legal practice committed …