Blog – Talmage Boston

February 15, 2008

Hope Restored In Mudville

By LexBlog Admin on February 15, 2008 Posted in Park Cities People On February 6, 2008, the Texas Rangers named Nolan Ryan as their new president — the best news for area fans since the team last appeared in the postseason in 1999. Baseball in these parts has been in a downward spiral for a […]

May 16, 2008

Missing the Sign

By Talmage Boston on May 16, 2008 Posted in Park Cities People On March 12, Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley was asked at an SMU Athletic Forum luncheon, “If you could trade places with anyone else in the world today, in any arena, who would it be?” Always glib, and in the aftermath of […]

July 11, 2008

The Olympics– Ever Changing, Ever the Same

By LexBlog Admin on July 11, 2008 Posted in Dallas Business Journal The Beijing Olympics begin Aug. 8 and, like its Olympiad predecessors, will be the subject of concentrated international attention and round-the-clock television coverage for 18 consecutive days. So what exactly is it that draws the world’s focus to mass quantities of athletic competition […]

June 15, 2010

Who was Atticus Finch?

By Talmage Boston on June 15, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Fifty years ago, first-time author Harper Lee threw a 320-page stone into the ocean of literature, setting off a tidal wave that reverberates to this day. On July 11, 1960, Philadelphia-based publisher J.P. Lippincott released To Kill a Mockingbird to critical acclaim and a place […]

April 22, 2012

Authors Panel at the ABA Expo – The Law as a Platform for Writing

By Talmage Boston on April 22, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized On Saturday, August 4, Talmage Boston will moderate a panel discussion featuring best selling authors Stephen Carter – William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University; Jeffrey Toobin – Staff Writer at The New Yorker and Senior Legal Analyst at CNN; and Scott Turow […]

April 25, 2012

From the Texas Bar Journal: James A. Baker, III The Ultimate Negotiator and Counselor – Book Excerpt

By Talmage Boston on April 25, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized The following article will appear in the May issue of the Texas Bar Journal. The article features an excerpt from Raising the Bar: The Crucial Role of the Lawyer in Society recently published by TexasBarBooks. This excerpt is taken from Chapter 2, which is devoted to Leon Jaworski and James A. […]

April 25, 2012

Raising the Bar: A Lawyer’s Vision of What the Profession Has Been, is Now, and Can Be in the Future

By Talmage Boston on April 25, 2012 Lawyers with doubts about the legal profession’s value in the American scheme of things need look no farther than Raising the Bar: The Crucial Role of the Lawyer in Society (TexasBarBooks 2012). The book is one lawyer’s vision of what the profession has been, is now, and can […]

May 11, 2012

Dallas Morning News Interviews Talmage Boston

By Talmage Boston on May 11, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized The May 9 issue of the Dallas Morning News features Talmage Boston who was interviewed by business columnist Cheryl Hall. During the interview Talmage discusses his new book and some of the lessons learned from the legal careers of important American lawyers, including Leon Jaworski and James A. […]

May 12, 2012

Dallas Morning News Q&A Session – Making A Case for Lawyers

By Talmage Boston on May 28, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized Dallas Morning News editorial columnist William McKenzie sits down with Talmage Boston for a Q&A Session featuring his latest book, Raising the Bar: The Crucial Role of the Lawyer in Society.