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