As Hurricane Shuts Down Houston, Law Schools and Firms Respond

Donald Guter, Dean of the South Texas College of Law-Houston, spent 32 years in the Navy and responded to several major natural disasters over the course of his career. Still, he was awestruck after witnessing Hurricane Harvey.

“I’ve never seen anything like it in my life,” he said.

Since the storm started, Guter has split his time between keeping track of the student body; monitoring building damage; pushing out messages to University stakeholders and volunteering at the George R. Brown Convention Center, a massive shelter in Houston where displaced people are coming to stay.

While he was there, he ran into former and current ...