About Sadie Lundquist
Articles written by Sadie Lundquist
Serving Injured Parties Five, and Only Five, at a Time
When people hire personal injury attorney Patrick McGroder, they know they’re getting his full attentionThere are attorneys who want as big a book of business as possible. But not personal injury attorney Patrick McGroder. He’s selective. He only takes five cases at a time. That way, he can go at them the only way he knows how—with everything he’s got. “I’m certainly not going to outthink anyone, but no one can outwork me,” he says. “And I enjoy working.” He certainly does—for almost three decades, he has worked 14-hour days, six days a week. “My work is my hobby, it’s my …
A Believer in Second Chances
Nicole DeBorde knows the other side—she was on it for almost a decadeIn 2002, after eight years as an assistant district attorney with Harris County, Nicole DeBorde had an intimate knowledge of the tricks of the trade. Now that she has her own criminal defense practice, she uses this knowledge to stay one step ahead of her opponents. The decision to leave the DA’s office was hard for DeBorde, but it’s a change she’s glad she made. “I liked what I was doing, but it was time to move on and to grow a little bit. When I actually got out, I loved it,” she …
Watch Great Ones, Become a Great One
How Tony Taft unlocked the secrets of the courtroomWhen Tony R. Taft takes on a case, he makes it clear from the start that he is willing to do whatever it takes to help his client. This includes letting his opponent know he isn’t afraid to go all the way to trial. “If you let the other side know that if need be we will take this case to and through trial, it makes the other side more willing to negotiate to get the case resolved,” he says. And that’s just what he did when defending a family against their insurance company. A family had …
What a Difference a Database Makes
At Berry Appleman & Leiden, technology isn’t just a luxury; it’s a central part of their service. They’ve used it to create a Web-accessible database that’s changed the practice of corporate immigration law. Paige Taylor and Jeremy Fudge, two partners at the firm, are instrumental in the continuing development of the database. Other law firms have similar software, but Fudge says their database is unique in that it centralizes immigration data for every country around the world in …
Emmy, ZZ Top and Me
Brooks Taylor first became interested in law in the mid-1980s when the company he worked for, Vari-Lite, was sued for patent infringement. “Out of the group of engineers in the company I seemed to have the best aptitude for reading and understanding patents,” he says. His involvement in the lawsuit sparked his interest in intellectual property, and eventually he became the company’s IP manager. In 2001 he left Vari-Lite and worked as a technical patent adviser at Hughes & Luce, now …
Why Wait?
How a rare disease gave Musa Eubanks perspectiveUnderneath his graduation cap and gown, Musa Eubanks wore a hospital gown; and instead of walking to the podium with fellow students to receive his law degree, he sat in a hospital bed barely able to walk across the room. It was late spring 1996. For months Eubanks had endured unexplained health problems that eventually became too much to bear. “Around January or February I started getting headaches and fevers,” he says. The illness caused cramping and made walking difficult, but doctors …
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