Due to the availability of air travel, getting to different courthouses around Texas is relatively easy. As a result, lawyers from the Piney Woods or the Valley often get to work with their colleagues from the Hill Country or North Texas. You might think that mixing and mingling would break down regional prejudices. Marshall McLuhan, a writer on media and its effect on society, believed that easy accessibility would have that result (at least that’s what I think he meant, though the whole “global village” thing doesn’t sound very Texas).
However, it’s not unusual to hear outsider lawyers referred to none too kindly. A few years ago, I had a series of cases in another large Texas city where the judge referred to one of my motions as coming from “that ’214′ lawyer.”
