I've been setting up appointments for my father - my older sister is coming
to stay for a week, to give me a chance to take a vacation and actually go
someplace, and because we're counting on her experience as a wife and mother
to make her better at nagging Dad into doing these necessary things.
<ducking>

My father's longtime attorney is no longer listed in the phone book -I know
he's working as the city attorney in a nearby town, but thought he was still
in general practice as well.  The lawyer's wife is a casual acquaintance, so
I've been calling their home to ask if he's available or can recommend
someone else - apparently they're on vacation, I get a voice-mail message
with a full in-box.

Lots of lawyers in the local Yellow Pages - but none that list elder law
among their specialties.  I phoned the Texas State Bar lawyer referral
service and was given just one number for the area - but it's in the next
county, almost seventy miles away! I've asked at the local AD caregivers'
support group meetings, and got no enthusiastic recommendations of local
lawyers there.  The Texas Dept. of Health has an AD/eldercare website that
refers me to a phone number that in turn refers me back to that state bar
number.

I have a neighbor who was an attorney in Houston specializing in estate
matters - he'd be a great source for a referral to someone local... but he
has AD! In fact, most of my friends and neighbors live in Houston (most
houses in my neighborhood are weekend homes), and I really don't want us to
go that far.

It's looking like it may come down to picking somebody at random from the
phone book, and that's liable to be unsatisfactory.

Suggestions?

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Robert