About Erik Lundegaard

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Erik Lundegaard has been a senior editor at Super Lawyers since 2005 and its editor in chief since 2013—during which time the magazine has won close to 100 journalism awards around the country. His freelance writing has been published by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Slate, Salon, MSNBC.com, The Christian Science Monitor, The Seattle Times and The Believer, among others. He has a B.A. in English from the University of Minnesota, studied Mandarin Chinese in Taipei, Taiwan, and lives in Seattle, Washington, where he is a long-suffering Seattle Mariners fan. In his spare time, he is working on a book about the movies of James Cagney.

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Political Lawyers

Patrick Oxford and Boe Martin

Patrick Oxford is Mr. GOP to the Texas Republican Party For a Super Lawyer, Patrick Oxford of Bracewell & Patterson is doing his level-best to convince me he’s Clark Kent. We meet in his large corner office on the 30th floor of the Pennzoil Place building in downtown Houston. A public relations manager takes me to his secretary, who takes me to him. He’s dressed lawyer-casual — tie but no jacket — with slicked-back salt-and-pepper hair, a genially aggressive manner and a …

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