Joe Jamail, a Houston trial lawyer who earned billions for his clients and himself with courtroom presentations that drew on jurors' sympathies and who gave away millions to his alma mater and ...

Joe Jamail, a Houston trial lawyer known for outsized courtroom success, outsized use of profanity and outsized devotion to his alma mater, the University of Texas, died Wednesday at the age of 90.

Not one bit of that turmoil was evident in Joe Jamail’s suite at DKR, and certainly not on the face of its host—and not because Jamail didn’t have a dog in those hunts. One of the most ...

Evan Smith is the cofounder of the Texas Tribune, a senior adviser at Emerson Collective, and the former editor in chief and president of Texas Monthly. Some people will assume that you’ve ...