Word: kurth
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...largest and most prestigious in Houston. Baker was educated at the Hill ! School in Pennsylvania and at Princeton, earned a law degree at the University of Texas, and served in the Marines. Because of anti-nepotism rules at Baker & Botts, he practiced corporate law at Andrews & Kurth...
...which his great- grandfather joined in 1872, was the largest, most prestigious in Houston. Like his father, Baker was educated at the Hill School in Pennsylvania and Princeton, then earned a law degree at the University of Texas, Austin. Because of antinepotism rules at Baker & Botts, he joined Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones to practice corporate law in 1957. Baker, like most Houston aristocrats of that era, was a conservative Democrat. While his father and grandfather had denigrated politics as a dishonorable profession, Baker was simply uninterested; he has described himself as having been a "completely apolitical" young attorney...
...Gerald Kurth...
Ironically, Lummis (pronounced Luhmiss) did not even know Hughes, who lived the last 15 years of his life in seclusion and deprivation. A partner in one of Houston's most prestigious law firms, Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, Lummis saw his cousin alive only twice, the second time when Lummis was nine years old. Four years ago, when he went to the Texas Medical Center to claim Hughes' body, Lummis was shown an ugly, wasted corpse and had to ask with consternation, "Is this Mr. Hughes?" When it became apparent that Hughes had died without leaving a will, Lummis...