About Alison Macor
A former film critic, Alison Macor has been working as a freelance writer and editor for more than 25 years. She’s followed filmmakers to Sundance and shadowed top breast cancer surgeons and trial lawyers. She’s written for Texas Monthly, Vogue Knitting, Thomson Reuters, and Humanities Texas, to name just a few. Alison also holds a Ph.D. in film history and is the author of three non-fiction books, including the forthcoming Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation. She lives in Austin.
Articles written by Alison Macor
Working for a Great Society
Catherine Robb brings her famous family's spirit to a new generationCatherine Robb looks as if she’s just laid an egg. Perched atop a vivid-blue exercise ball, the lithe attorney rolls gently back and forth behind a narrow dark-wood desk in her small office at the George & Brothers law firm in downtown Austin. A standard desk chair sits nearby, but Robb prefers the exercise ball. “It’s good for your back, and it makes me sit up straight,” she explains. She stops rolling for a moment, perfectly balanced. These days the 35-year-old strives …
The Poster Child for ... Posters
Rogge Dunn sees art where others see only advertisingR. Rogge Dunn knows the value of a powerful image. “My job is to persuade people, and you can persuade only so much with the spoken word,” says the 47-year-old attorney, who uses posters, photographic blow-ups and PowerPoint presentations at trial. “I struggle to boil it down, make it pithy, but make it persuasive.” It must be working. A labor, employment and commercial litigation specialist and partner in the Dallas-based firm of Clouse Dunn Hirsch, Dunn has obtained more than …
Les is More
The Mystery of the Week is “How does Les Weisbrod find time for everything he does?”When Les Weisbrod ran for the position of parliamentarian of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) in 2003, he campaigned under the slogan “Les Does More.” He wasn’t kidding. This is a guy with a full plate. This past July, following the usual path for officers, Weisbrod assumed the role of treasurer. He also serves on the ATLA’s board of governors and is a member of the organization’s executive committee and chair of the membership committee. He’s also …
The Dark Knight
Holy transactions and litigation! Steve Stodghill comes to the rescue for all his famous clientsSteve Stodghill is an unlikely comic-book geek. The affable 42-year-old litigator, a principal in the Dallas office of Fish & Richardson and attorney to Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, is recounting one of his favorite moments from DC Comics’ 1997 re-launch of the Justice League of America series. “There’s a plotline where these martians take over the earth,” Stodghill explains. “The head martian has captured the whole Justice League, except Batman. He’s got …
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