To honor his longtime friend Joe Jamail, a well-known Houston trial lawyer who died in 2015, Richard Mithoff has established an endowment to help fund free legal services for Texas veterans.

Mithoff, founder of Mithoff Law in Houston, said he launched the Joe Jamail Endowment for Veteran Legal Services with a $100,000 donation in May. He said other lawyers and judges have contributed sincethen, and funding has now exceeded $400,000—close to his $500,000 goal.