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VI. Profiles of Individual Justices
Part 2



 
 
Justice Abbott's Top Donors
Lawyers & Law Firms Amount            Non-Lawyer Donors Amount
Vinson & Elkins
$44,900
  Bass Family
$26,500
Susman Godfrey
$30,100
  HEB Grocery Co
$10,500
Baker Botts
$26,175
  TX Medical Assn
$10,452
Fulbright & Jaworski
$25,442
  Contran Corp
$10,000
Locke Purnell Rain Harrell
$19,000
  TX Auto Dealers Assn
$9,500
Liddell Sapp Zivley Hill & LaBoon
$17,350
  Assoc. Republicans of TX
$7,500
Bracewell & Patterson
$14,850
  Perry Homes
$7,500
Hughes & Luce
$14,350
  Beecherl Investments
$7,500
Thompson & Knight
$14,100
  Reliant Energy (Hou. Ind.)
$7,000
Beck Redden & Secrest
$11,093
  Cogen Technologies
$6,000

 
Justice Baker's Top Donors
Lawyers & Law Firms Amount             Non-Lawyer Donors Amount
Vinson & Elkins
$41,700
  Coastal Corp
$12,500
Baker Botts
$26,260
  HEB Grocery Co
$11,229
Susman Godfrey
$19,300
  Bass Family
$10,000
Fulbright & Jaworski
$16,256
  TX Medical Assn
$8,500
*Fisher Gallagher & Lewis
$15,116
  TX Restaurant Assn
$6,100
Kelly Hart & Hallman
$13,000
  Hunt Oil Co
$5,300
Haynes & Boone
$11,950
  O'Connor & Hewitt Ltd
$5,250
Strasburger & Price
$11,500
  H B Zachry Co
$5,200
Bracewell & Patterson
$11,350
  Emil Pena Interests
$5,161
Jackson Walker 
$11,000
  Perry Homes
$5,000
Justice Enoch's Top Donors
Lawyers & Law Firms Amount             Non-Lawyer Donors Amount
Baker Botts
$30,500
  Bass Family
$20,000
Vinson & Elkins
$29,800
  TX Medical Assn
$10,000
Fulbright & Jaworski
$18,000
  Beecherl Investments
$10,000
Hughes & Luce
$17,050
  TX Auto Dealers Assn
$9,500
Ware Snow Fogel Jackson…
$15,000
  TX Civil Justice League
$8,500
Kelly Hart & Hallman
$14,950
  Southwestern Bell
$8,200
Locke Purnell Rain Harrell
$13,800
  TX Assn of Insur. Agents
$8,000
Liddell Sapp Zivley Hill & LaBoon
$13,100
  TX Utilities
$7,850
Thompson & Knight
$12,950
  TX Assn of Realtors
$7,500
Bracewell & Patterson
$12,100
  Assoc. Republicans of TX
$7,000

 
Justice Gonzales' Top Donors
Lawyers & Law Firms Amount             Non-Lawyer Donors Amount
Vinson & Elkins
$8,300
  TX Medical Assn
$5,000
Fulbright & Jaworski
$6,450
  Perry Homes
$5,000
Baker Botts
$5,500
  H E B Grocery Co
$5,000
Haynes & Boone
$5,250
  Bass Family
$5,000
*Ernest Cannon & Associates
$5,000
  Houston Industries
$5,000
Susman Godfrey
$5,000
  Southwestern Bell
$3,700
Bracewell & Patterson
$5,000
  World Duty-Free Americas
$3,213
Graves Dougherty Hearon…
$4,200
  American General Corp
$2,500
McGinnis Lochridge & Kilgore
$2,700
  Compass Banc
$2,500
Locke Liddell & Sapp
$2,500
  Intern'l Bank of Commerce
$2,500

 
Justice Hankinson's Top Donors
Lawyers & Law Firms Amount   Non-Lawyer Donors Amount
Vinson & Elkins
$45,650
  Bass Family
$24,000
Thompson & Knight
$40,849
  TX Medical Assn
$12,500
Baker Botts
$36,825
  Perry Homes
$10,000
Haynes & Boone
$19,050
  Texans for Lawsuit Reform
$10,000
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer…
$18,000
  TX Auto Dealers Assn
$10,000
Fulbright & Jaworski
$17,050
  H B Zachry Co
$8,500
Susman Godfrey
$16,600
  Beecherl Investments
$7,500
TX Assn of Defense Counsel
$15,000
  Kinetic Concepts
$7,500
Locke Purnell Rain Harrell
$14,150
  Enron Corp
$7,000
Hughes & Luce
$14,011
  TX Civil Justice League
$7,000

 
Justice Hecht's Top Donors
Lawyers & Law Firms Amount   Non-Lawyer Donors Amount
Vinson & Elkins
$38,900
  TX Society of CPAs
$31,950
Locke Purnell Rain Harrell
$32,523
  Enron Corp
$25,000
Fulbright & Jaworski
$29,000
  H B Zachry Co
$19,850
Baker Botts
$23,750
  Bass Family
$17,000
Haynes & Boone
$18,925
  TX Assn of Business
$14,750
Thompson & Knight
$16,325
  TRT Holdings
$14,100
Bickel & Brewer
$15,000
  TX Apartment Assn
$14,000
Scott Douglass Luton…
$14,540
  Kinetic Concepts
$13,300
Andrews & Kurth
$13,466
  Sterling Chemicals
$12,500
Liddell Sapp Zivley Hill…
$13,425
  TX Medical Assn
$11,100

 
Justice O'Neill's Top Donors
Lawyers & Law Firms Amount   Non-Lawyer Donors Amount
Clements O'Neill Pierce…
$34,150
  Enron Corp
$33,908
Vinson & Elkins
$28,950
  Bass Family
$30,000
Baker Botts
$22,750
  Mitchell Energy
$19,768
*Perdue Clore & Perdue
$22,500
  TX Repub. Campaign Com.
$15,000
*Williams Bailey Law Firm
$21,000
  Beecherl Investments
$10,000
Hughes & Luce
$16,700
  TX Medical Assn
$10,000
Fulbright & Jaworski
$16,200
  Coastal Corp
$10,000
Susman Godfrey
$15,250
  Contran Corp
$9,000
Bracewell & Patterson
$12,700
  Tautenhahn & Brooks
$7,800
Thompson & Knight
$12,700
  TX Automobile Dealers Assn
$7,500

 
Justice Owen's Top Donors
Lawyers & Law Firms  Amount   Non-Lawyer Donors Amount
Vinson & Elkins
$21,050
  TX Society of CPAs
$20,250
Andrews & Kurth
$19,574
  Bass Family
$19,000
Fulbright & Jaworski
$17,108
  TRT Holdings
$14,000
Baker Botts
$13,950
  Sterling Chemicals
$12,500
Haynes & Boone
$11,260
  TX Assn of Business
$9,500
McDade Fogler Maines…
$10,000
  Enron Corp
$8,600
Hughes & Luce
$9,236
  TX Medical Assn
$8,261
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer…
$9,200
  Kinetic Concepts
$8,250
Strasburger & Price
$8,600
  TX Apartment Assn
$7,500
Liddell Sapp Zivley Hill…
$6,700
  Rutherford Oil Co
$7,000

 
Justice Phillips' Top Donors
Lawyers & Law Firms Amount   Non-Lawyer Donors Amount
Fulbright & Jaworski
$31,385
  Bass Family
$13,080
Susman Godfrey
$30,000
  Enron Corp
$12,000
Baker Botts
$29,203
  Quintana Petroleum
$9,200
Vinson & Elkins
$28,430
  Compaq Computer Corp
$8,800
Bracewell & Patterson
$23,525
  Sterling Chemicals
$8,000
Liddell Sapp Zivley Hill…
$16,450
  Exxon
$7,975
Clements O'Neill Pierce…
$12,632
  TRT Holdings
$7,895
Mayor Day Caldwell & Keeton
$10,750
  HEB Grocery Co
$7,750
*Fisher Gallagher & Lewis
$10,734
  H B Zachry Co
$7,000
Thompson Coe Cousins…
$10,500
  Panhandle Eastern Corp
$6,250

*= plaintiff's firm



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