Brian Cathey, an associate with Pierce & O’Neill in Houston, was working on a response to a motion for summary judgment on the morning of May 4 when he answered a call on his cell phone. The secretary for Texas Supreme Court Justice Dale Wainwright asked if Cathey had a few moments to talk with Wainwright. “I held my breath, and said of course,” says Cathey. “His first words were, ‘you can breathe, this is good news’.”
The good news was that Cathey, a 2010 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, had earned the top score 855 on the Texas February bar exam. “It was certainly a surprise,” Cathey says.
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