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Leon Jaworski: The Houston Lawyer Who Got the Watergate Tapes Released


The attorney was known for his willingness to take on the tough cases.
By
Jeff Balke
12/14/2020 at 6:00am
Published in the December 2020 issue of
Houstonia
You may not know who Leon Jaworski was—but, as a Houstonian, you probably should.
“He was one of the architects of the emergence of Houston as a world-class city,” says Steve Dillard, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright. From the 1950s through the 1970s, Dillard explains, “Jaworski’s fingerprints could be found on just about everything of consequence that happened in Houston.”
Still nothing? Maybe this will help. Not only was Jaworski a named partner of one of the most prominent litigation firms in America (Fulbright and Jaworski at the time), but he served as an independent council (think Robert Mueller) during the Watergate scandal. He was also a close friend and trusted advisor to former presidents Lyndon Johnson and George H.W. Bush. Miller says, “I think they ....

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Houston's Original Nasty Woman | Houstonia Magazine


Houston’s Original Nasty Woman
Hortense Sparks Ward fought for women’s rights and permanently changed Texas law in the process.
By
Emma Schkloven
12/14/2020 at 6:00am
Published in the December 2020 issue of
Houstonia
They say well-behaved women seldom make history. Such an expression couldn’t be truer of Judge Hortense Sparks Ward, the 20th-century version of today’s nasty woman, who forever changed the lives of women in Texas during her unprecedented legal career. “Starting in a society that deprived women of legal rights, she worked her way into becoming a lawyer and used her legal background to help give women equal rights to men,” says retired Harris County District Judge Mark Davidson. “By itself that is a major accomplishment. Doing it in the context of the decade in which she lived, that is a monumental task.” ....

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