2/21/2007

TxDOT and the Toll Road "Super Lawyer" We Paid For.

"Who’s Your Daddy?"
by Eileen Welsome of The Texas Observer
February 20th, 2007

Who’s Your Daddy? Not TXDOT, Ric Williamson, the chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, assured lawmakers this morning.

The pugnacious Williamson made another appearance before the House Transportation Committee to discuss the state’s toll-road-building binge. Accompanying him was Geoffrey S. Yarema, a soft-spoken attorney from LA who was recently dubbed a “Super Lawyer” by a California magazine and has become the go-to man for state agencies wanting to jump into the toll-road biz. (We put in a call to Yarema’s office to get his hourly billing rate and were informed he’d buzz us back just as soon as his plane touched down in LA.) Read the rest of the article HERE.

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