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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, …

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

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 …

Read moreTommy Swann retires from McCleskey after 41 years

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 …

Read moreJerry Kolander enjoying his Dodger wall even more after World Series victory

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 …

Read moreThe four names behind the McCleskey Law Firm

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 …

Read moreWill Griffis joins Shannon Hospital Community Board