Steven L. Scheinthal says he literally put his bar card on the line when he was a young lawyer trying to impress client Tilman Fertitta, who was then embroiled in a courthouse battle over a promissory note with a former partner in a restaurant.
Scheinthal can’t recall the name of the visiting judge at that hearing about a dozen years ago. But he does clearly remember pulling his bar card out of his wallet and telling the judge he’d quit practicing law if the judge didn’t agree that Scheinthal filed a timely response to a summary judgment motion.
