At a time when lawyers think little about jumping from firm to firm in search of a bigger paycheck, and unfulfilled lawyers are taking early retirement, the 50-year partnership between Anthony "Nic" Nicholas and Roy Barrera Sr. is a throwback to a different era. In 1957, the two San Antonio lawyers launched their firm on a handshake. A lawyer and longtime friend of the two says Barrera and Nicholas ought to give other lawyers lessons on how to maintain a partnership and a friendship.
August 13, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
At a time when lawyers think little about jumping from firm to firm in search of a bigger paycheck and unfulfilled lawyers are taking early retirement, the 50-year partnership between San Antonio lawyers Anthony “Nic” Nicholas and Roy Barrera Sr. is a throwback to a different era.
In 1957 — the year Nicholas and Barrera launched their firm on a handshake — Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, a first-class stamp cost 3 cents and “Leave It to Beaver” premiered on CBS.
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