some of the partners, and I was offered a job as a junior partner if I would
 come back with one of the factions, so I went back.

P: Was the name changed?

M: No, it was not changed at that point. I stayed with them until I was notified
 that I had passed the bar exam. Within a month, I was offered a job as the
 controller for a small group of oil people. They wanted me to be their land
 man; they wanted to take advantage of the law side. They wanted me to be
 the person to go out and get leases, since I knew the proper forms to fill out,
 how they were filed, and things like that.

P: You would be going as a lawyer or as an accountant, or was this a
 combination?

M: I was working as both, but I was going into the field in trying to secure
 mineral leases and then "running" property records. Then, when I was back
 in the office, I was in charge of a one-man staff to do the bookkeeping. I
 did the somewhat high-level accounting for them, such as preparing tax
 returns.

P: Your office was back in Houston again?

M: It was still in Houston.

P: You returned from Austin after you took the bar examination?

M: That is right. The work was all right, and I was with them until I decided
 that I really wanted to be a lawyer. I then applied for a job as a lawyer with
 the firm of Butler, Binion, Rice, and Cook.

P: You were still in Houston?

M: Yes. I was the seventeenth lawyer in this firm that was located in Houston.
 I was primarily a tax lawyer, but I also did oil and gas work, property work,
 and general corporate work.

P: Did this law firm accept all kinds of cases? Was it a general practice?

M: They did not do any criminal work, but they accepted all kinds of civil cases.

P: Was this an old firm, a prestigious firm?

M: The lead partner was Jesse Jones's nephew, and we had Jesse Jones's interests
 and bank.

P: That made it a prestigious firm, then.

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