Comments on: Wednesday Evening Staff Meeting

By: Russell M. Webb

Russell M. Webb — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:36:55 +0000

I’d like to be notified if this ever arises again. I too go to Wed sessions. It’s helped on more than one occasion.

By: GalvestonLawyer

GalvestonLawyer — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:58:00 +0000

I think Skelton was more insulted than anything to have a committee of lawyers who were not “believers in the cause” questioning his ethics and abilities–hence his refusal to even participate in a process he deemed fixed from the beginning, anyway. Recall, at least one of the disbarments was by default. Skelton has done a lot of good, uncredited (and uncompensated) work for folks who otherwise would have dropped through the cracks. He has also fought the good fight for Constitutional justice for a good long time. He ranks high in my pantheon of lawyer heroes.

By: Mark Bennett

Mark Bennett — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:46:00 +0000

GL,

Jim’s an interesting character. Probably worthy of more than one blog post. Only guy I know to get himself disbarred twice. Resignation-by-bar-committee, I always call it. Like suicide-by-cop, but less bloody.

By: GalvestonLawyer

GalvestonLawyer — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:05:00 +0000

I’m friends with Jim Skelton, too–since my early days living in Galveston. I told the guy I was clerking for in Houston at the time I knew Skelton and you would have thought I told him I knew F. Lee Bailey–Skelton is still highly regarded and revered among a lot of Houston attorneys. I have since made the unfortunate choice to move back to east Texas to practice or I would gladly make th Wednesday Evening Staff Meeting. If I am in town at some fortuitous time, I will still try to attend.

By: Ron in Houston

Ron in Houston — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:47:00 +0000

I don’t do criminal law, but I’ll often go to Skelton’s Wednesday lunch session just for the entertainment value.

The bar does need more mentoring program.

By: Edintally

Edintally — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:10:00 +0000

WOW!

Helluva good idea. Good luck.