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By Talmage Boston on September 3, 2015 Talmage’s article “Cracking the Code on Harper Lee” was published in the September issue of the Texas Bar Journal. Talmage was one of the first people to read Harper Lee’s novel Go Set a Watchman. He has closely followed other book reviews and controversy among readers who believed that the […]

By Winstead on October 29, 2015 Cross-Examining History: An Interview with James A. Baker, III Talmage Boston is scheduled to interview James A. Baker, III at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy on Friday, November 13, 2015 at 11:30 am.  Click here for more information. James A. Baker, III, was recognized as “the […]

By Winstead on December 31, 2015  Talmage’s newest CLE Ethics speech is based on his widely read article published in the September issue of the Texas Bar Journal (with a similar version having been published in the Washington Independent Review of Books), entitled “Cracking the Code on Harper Lee: Atticus through Watchman and Mockingbird.” Click here […]

By Winstead on February 5, 2016  For over 38 years, Talmage Boston’s vocation has been getting to the heart of his cases by asking the right questions—and not stopping until he gets them answered. Three years ago, he had an epiphany: What if he used his examination skills to go deeper into his lifelong […]

By Winstead on February 10, 2016  On Monday, March 28, 2016, Talmage Boston will interview Douglas Brinkley onstage at the International Educator of the Year Luncheon hosted by the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, on the subject of Brinkley’s new book (to be released by HarperCollins on March 15, 2016) entitled Rightful Heritage: […]

By Winstead on February 19, 2016 Originally published By Lindsay Stafford Mader for the Texas Bar Blog Readers and lawyers around the country are feeling the loss of author Harper Lee, who died in her sleep this morning at the age of 89. Harper’s novel To Kill a Mockingbirdwas awarded a Pulitzer Prize in […]

By Winstead on April 18, 2016 Ken Burns’ two-part documentary Jackie Robinson aired last week on PBS, reminding us of the reasons the Great Jackie remains atop the mountain among our greatest sports heroes.  First, breaking the color barrier in big league baseball has been described by George Will as “the opening salvo […]

By Winstead on July 22, 2016 Join Talmage Boston at the 2016 ABA San Francisco Annual Meeting for the “Authors Panel” on August 6 at 10:00 am, Moscone Center West, 2nd Floor.  Talmage will moderate a panel of successful lawyer-authors, featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed, and bestselling novelists Philip Margolin and Corban Addison.  Learn […]