It’s been twenty years since I published my first article for Texas Lawyer newspaper. As one would imagine, the names and memories of some of the hundreds of attorneys I’ve chronicled over the course of two decades have faded. But the subject of that initial story still seems fresh.
Her name was Bonnie Arnett Horinek. She was a young Jackson Walker labor and employment partner who was fatally shot in her Fort Worth home in 1995 after a night out drinking with her husband. And the tale of how a group of influential attorneys helped put Bonnie’s killer in prison and kept him there is a tale that’s worth retelling for the final weekly edition of this newspaper.
