Robert L. Stillwell still remembers the first time he met T. Boone Pickens. It was 1963, and Stillwell was a junior associate and one of just a handful of lawyers who made up the corporate department at Baker Botts in Houston.

Pickens had been referred to the firm by some friends in the oil business in Midland, Stillwell recalls, and was looking to form his first corporation, Mesa Petroleum. Stillwell was one of the two lawyers assigned to make Pickens’ deal happen.

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