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their belief that government clients should have excellent legal representation if they are to be effective in fulfilling their mission and serve the public good. Further, the firm’s lawyers do not simply represent its governmental clients as a business proposition. Instead, they work to represent such clients because if fulfills serving the communities that have entrusted them. Since it’s founding, Escamilla & Poneck, LLP has become a dynamic, full-service, 100% minority-owned law firm with offices in San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and Monroe, Louisiana. Escamilla & Poneck has grown and diversified in an effort to support various clients across Texas and Louisiana with responsive inperson services. It provides a variety of legal services, including a number of general counsel services (i.e. services related to the particular subject areas of the governments represented), litigation, bond counsel and government relations before the Texas legislature. Escamilla & Poneck primarily represents governmental entities throughout Texas. In particular, the firm is very experienced in working with school boards, but also represent other kinds of boards, including boards of housing authorities, workforce development entities, urban renewal agencies, utilities, cities, counties, special-purpose districts and various related non-profits. In short, the firm’s greatest strengths are its breadth and diversity of experience in representing governmental entities along a broad spectrum, with an emphasis on legal services needed to serve those entities. The firm has also established a highly collaborative working environment in which attorneys and staff all participate to provide clients highly responsive and effective legal service. In the end, the lawyers of Escamilla & Poneck feel that governmental entities ultimately serve the law and the public, their actions should be transparent and accountable, from top to bottom. Escamilla & Poneck has been a leader in promoting diversity within the Texas legal community. When Pablo and Doug established the firm nearly 30 years ago, there were very few minority owned firms that served governmental entities. Since then, many of the firms that provide similar services have added diversity to their teams of lawyers, and some firms have even shared ownership with minority lawyers. The firm may not be as unique in the industry as it was, but the partners feel that’s a good thing. U n d e r w r i t e r s F 8 9
WATTS GUERRA, LLP G Left: Mikal C. Watts. Right: Francisco Guerra, IV. Watts Guerra LLP, headquartered in San Antonio, is a true nationwide litigation practice. The firm’s trial lawyers handle some of the largest cases nationwide for catastrophic injury and death, product liability, commercial litigation, and mass torts. Watts Guerra attorneys have taken on and defeated many of the largest and most powerful corporations in America, yielding substantial verdicts and settlements and, more importantly, greater consumer safety for everyone. Watts Guerra’s record prompted the National Law Journal to comment, “Watts has established a record as one of the most effective plaintiffs trail lawyers in the United States.” Among the many successful cases litigated was the first trail in the nation challenging the safety of the drug Levaquin, used to treat a variety of bacterial infections. The hotly contested trial included some of the finest defense lawyers in the nation and both sides put forth extensive evidence, studies and expert testimony to prove their cases. The defense fought hard until closing arguments to persuade the jury that Levaquin was a safe drug. Thanks to the efforts of Mikal Watts and others involved in the trial, the defense arguments fell on deaf ears. The jury deliberated for less than two days before awarding $7 million in actual damages to the plaintiff who had been injured as a result of his use of Levaquin. The jury deliberated only a couple more hours before awarding the injured plaintiff an additional $1.1 million in punitive damages. Watts Guerra trial lawyers led the nation in representing people maimed or killed by defective Firestone tires and unstable Ford Explorers. The firm also represented a pharmaceutical victim whose liver was destroyed by the diabetes drug Rezulin and won an award for three clients from Sulzer Medica by proving that defective hip implants led to painful extraction and revision surgeries. Results such as this are common for clients of Watts Guerra, which employs a team of seasoned attorneys across cities in Texas and California. With a main office in the Dominion in San Antonio and a mass tort office near the city’s medical center, Watts Guerra boasts one of the larger, more experienced plaintiff-side lawyer rosters in the country, with some of the best trial lawyers in their respective areas of practice. The firm also maintains offices in Austin, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, and Odessa, Texas, and Santa Rosa and Chico, California to provide premier legal representation. The lawyers of Watts Guerra have a proven track record of serious, high-value results and believe in their ability to win each case. Because of this, the firm accepts all of its cases on a contingency fee basis—clients do not owe anything unless the firm recovers on their behalf. 9 0 F T H E H E A R T O F B E X A R C O U N T Y
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THE HEART OF BEXAR COUNTY RESTORATI
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CONTENTS FOREWORD .................
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q Architectural drawing of the Cour
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I E V O L U T I O N O F C I T Y H A
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q Above: Bottom, right: The Masonic
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q Architect’s Drawing of the Bexa
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II R E S T O R A T I O N O F C I T
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q San Antonio City Council Chamber.
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III T H E D E C L I N E O F T H E C
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2 0 F T H E H E A R T O F B E X A R
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q Bexar County Courthouse. submitte
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VI T H E C H I L D R E N ’ S C O
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q Above: Children’s court Judge R
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VII T H E F I R S T R E S T O R E D
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q Before and after restoration of t
Page 39 and 40: In 1996 Father David Garcia, belove
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Page 51 and 52: q Above: June 17, 2018, King Felipe
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Page 67 and 68: ABOUT THE AUTHORS C O U N T Y N E L
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