Author: kevin@kevincullen.me
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William Powers: Teacher, Leader, Lawyer
By Mark Curriden (Oct. 2) – No one has a résumé like Bill Powers. He served three years in the Navy. He’s taught jurisprudence, legal process and torts to thousands of students. He’s argued 50 cases before the Texas Supreme Court and the state appellate courts. He served five years as the dean of the…
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Henry Gilchrist: From Pampa to Prominence in Dallas, National Legal World
By Natalie Posgate (Sept. 28) – Who knew that a hot summer drive from Pampa, Texas to College Station in the early 1950s would affect the fate of Henry Gilchrist’s success as a lawyer? Gilchrist had been working his first legal job at a distant relative’s firm in Pampa, even though he and his wife…
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Jim Sales: A Leader in Court and at the Bar
By Janet Elliott (Sept. 28) – As a lawyer defending General Motors in a product liability case, James B. Sales once drove a Cadillac at a high rate of speed around a wicked curve on Texas Highway 77 near LaGrange to test an injured driver’s theory that brake failure caused the accident. “At the speed…
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Rusty Hardin Loves Juries and Juries Love Him
By Mark Curriden (Sept. 29) – Rusty Hardin was cross-examining Anna Nicole Smith in a case in which the 26-year-old former Playboy centerfold sought hundreds of millions of dollars from the estate of her deceased husband, 89-year-old J. Howard Marshall II. “How do you spend $100,000 a week?” he asked. “Rusty, you have to understand,”…