Supreme Court of Texas Blog

According to a news release earlier this week that had escaped my attention, former Justice James Baker’s law firm (Hughes & Luce) is merging with the impressively named Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP — which even the firm’s own press release chooses to define as a short form (”K&L Gates”) to avoid typing fatigue. ¹

Although the merger apparently didn’t warrant further lengthening the new firm’s name, the press release does allude to Justice Baker as among those being added to the soon-to-be 1500 lawyer operation.

1. The press release also contains 50 or more prepositions. That surely means that it did not cross Justice Baker’s desk. When I clerked, Justice Baker was famous for taught us that his campaign against prepositions could be eliminated.↩