I won’t. But how about your favorite partner? Well, there were several.
It has got to be Brother tagg?
Well, Father Tagg and I were close personal friends. He did practice with me for a number of years and then became a Catholic priest. I told him that he lost his mind when he wanted to be a priest, but it did.
speaking of fitness, I understand you work out every day.
I do yoga exercises for about twenty minutes mornings each week at home. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday I go to DAC fitness in Laurelwood and work out for about an hour. I do that religiously.
hal, what do you attribute your longevity to?
I don’t know. I guess genes have something to do with it, but I had exercised all my life, and I think that had a lot to do with it. Also, I used to overeat, and I don’t do that any more. I do things pretty much in moderation. I do try to eat a balanced diet.
what would be your advice as far as words to live by?
I’ve been known as a hell-raiser. I was a pretty difficult advocate.
yes, you and the likes of Mcdonnell, glankler, prewitt, were staunch advocates for their clients.
As I’ve grown older, I’ve been a lot more tolerant.
hal, I attended a deposition with you just last november, and I have to say that’s a tempered statement. Maybe a little more tolerant but not much.
Well, I suppose that’s right. I think toleration, I think people need to accept other people the way they are and recognize that we’re all different, we all have different political ideas, different ideas about how to live, and I think we have to make allowances for our fellow man.
your practice was a general practice in the early days?
Yes, a general trial practice. Memphis lawyers did everything in those days?
Yes, we did everything at first. As a trial lawyer, I’ve tried everything on the criminal side from a DUI to a capital murder case.
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pre-leslie-Ballin, shall we say, you were regarded as one of Memphis’ best criminal trial lawyers.
Well, that was overblown, but I also did a lot of white- collar criminal cases, many of them in the United States District Court. I have tried everything on the civil side from a divorce case to an antitrust case. I have appeared in the Tennessee Court of Appeals I once calculated over fifty times and the Supreme Court of Tennessee fifteen to twenty times and then the United States Court of Appeals about ten or fifteen times, and although I filed some petitions in the Supreme Court of the United States—I’ll tell you about that, too—I never have been able to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court, but I’ve tried cases in Illinois, Mississippi, Arkansas, Montana, Colorado, Texas, Louisiana as well as the Fifth and Eighth Circuits. t
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Brian Dominski, senior reporter with Alpha Reporting, has been a Memphis court reporter for 33 years, and his lawyer clients and personal friends have included the excellent trial lawyers of the Memphis Bar. He felt it incumbent to capture their rich history and genuine insight into life and the practice of law and wrote this article.
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