About Jim Eaton

The Minister, the Lawyer, and a Quarter Billion Dollars in Wins

Peppered throughout Ben Hall’s Houston office, which is rumored to be Howard Hughes’ one-time dance hall, are nasty little reminders. Some are on the wall. Some lie on the table. Some are rubber, and some are hairy.   The tarantulas and other spiders—whether they are toys or actual once-living creatures pinned into shadow boxes—are part of the complex personality of Benjamin L. Hall III , his reminder to himself to stay humble.    The litigator, friends with Houston Mayor Bill White …