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In 1917, the General Services Administration added courtrooms and judicial offices to the second floor of the 1861 U.S. Customs House in Galveston, and it became the new federal courthouse for the Southern District of Texas. This location would later become the seat of the Galveston Division, after Congress added a second judgeship in the 1930s.
In 1906, President Roosevelt named Lodowick “Lock” McDaniel of Grimes County, Texas, to be the first man appointed as the United States Attorney for the SDTX. Originally, the SDTX covered 36 counties. The court and the U.S. Attorney rotated between Galveston, Laredo, Brownsville and Houston which was a new seat for the court.
Bracewell LLP is an international law firm based in Houston, Texas, that began in 1945.The firm has approximately 350 lawyers, and has United States offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., San Antonio, Seattle, Dallas and Austin, as well as offices in Dubai, Paris and London.
The firm was founded as Kasowitz, Hoff, Benson & Torres in 1993 when Marc Kasowitz left the Mayer Brown law firm with 18 other lawyers and two clients. [5] David M. Friedman joined in 1994 and became a name partner in May 1995 and the firm was renamed Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman. [6]
The University of Houston Law Center was founded in 1947 as the University of Houston College of Law, with an inaugural class consisting of 28 students and a single professor. The law school was housed in several locations on campus in its first few years—including temporary classrooms and the basement of the M.D. Anderson Library .
Attorneys general in chronological order, showing party affiliation No. Image Name Term of service Political party 1 Volney Howard: 1846 Democratic 2 John W. Harris: 1846–1849 Democratic 3 Henry Percy Brewster: 1849–1850 Democratic 4 Andrew Jackson Hamilton: 1850 Democratic 5 Ebenezer Allen 1: 1850–1852 Democratic 6 Thomas J. Jennings ...
He served as Harris County assistant district attorney under Carol Vance starting in March 1977. [3] After his predecessor, Johnny Holmes, retired, Rosenthal was elected Harris County District Attorney after facing Pat Lykos, County Attorney Michael Stafford and many others in the Republican primary. He was re-elected in 2004. [3]
University of Houston Alamdar S. Hamdani (born 1971/1972) is an American lawyer who served as the United States attorney for the Southern District of Texas from December 12, 2022 to January 19, 2025.