New Texas Tech law grad recalls journey to Lubbock's McCleskey law firm
When people asked Bridget Pembroke what she wanted to be when she grew up, she said lawyer – because that’s what her father did. “As a kid, I didn’t know what a lawyer actually did and I slowly shifted away,” she said of growing up in Chicago. On Oct. 15, she came full circle back to that childhood answer. Pembroke stood before seven judges in the Donald Hunt Courtroom at the Texas Tech University School of Law and was sworn into the Texas Bar – officially becoming a lawyer and keeping a McCleskey Law Firm tradition intact. Her official McCleskey start date was Aug. 31, pending her bar exam results. Every attorney in the firm’s history who was hired pending results has passed. Pembroke will focus on labor and employment law, along with estate planning, which her father practiced. She was one of six Tech law school grads at the ceremony presided by Lubbock and area judges. Each of the lawyers-about-to-be first stood before the judges and were introduced one by one. Pembroke was introduced by McCleskey partner Bill Lane, who’s been a mentor to her since she served twice as a law clerk at the firm while studying at
