Osler's Razor

Tom Featherston, my colleague and neighbor, received the Distinguished Probate Lawyer Lifetime Achievement Award from the 7,000-member Real Estate, Probate & Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Texas during a ceremony in Houston last week. He seems pretty young to be getting a "lifetime achievement award," but that guy has always worked fast.

It really is an impressive thing. Much of the reason Tom is so respected in his field is that he spends a lot of time analyzing and helping reform Texas law in that area, and because he devotes what otherwise might be "free" time to providing continuing legal education to estate lawyers in Texas. Both of these things are important and always speak well not only for Tom but for Baylor.

Originally, I thought that after receiving the award Tom entertained the crowd with selections from the hit musical "Mama Mia!," but it turn out that the singing was by his grand-daughter Cameron. Not that Tom couldn't do that, too...