Larry Rothenberg’s client is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “fastest real-time court reporter” and is also a recognized chess player, he said.

So it just follows that Rothenberg, a Houston solo, successfully defended a $240,000 judgment his client won before a trial court, three months after the case was submitted to Houston’s First Court of Appeals. It’s an appellate ruling that Rothenberg said checkmates the defendant’s claim that his client, Mark Kislingbury, does not have standing to make a recovery in a business dispute.