Chas Jackson is an American lawyer based in San Antonio, Texas, where he practices general business, real estate, corporate, banking, and estate law. He is a partner in the San Antonio office of Jackson & Jackson Attorneys at Law, P.C., a firm located in the historic Milam Building.
Background
Jackson's documented background links a period of military reserve service with a legal career in South Texas. He served in the Army Reserves from 1964 to 1970. The United States Army Reserve traces its beginnings to 1908, when Congress created a reserve corps of medical officers that could be called to active duty in an emergency.
During the 1960s the Army Reserve was still developing its role alongside the active Army. President Lyndon Johnson favored a minor role for reserve forces in the Vietnam buildup, so there was no large-scale reserve call-up for that conflict.
Education
Jackson received a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law, completed in 1969. The school began as the Department of Law of the University of Texas at Austin when the university was founded in 1883, and it became the University of Texas School of Law in 1920. It started with two professors and 52 students in the basement of the university's Old Main Building.
In the decades before Jackson's graduation, the school was limited to white students before the Civil Rights Movement, and its admissions policies were challenged in high-profile cases during the twentieth century. Its Austin campus places the school within the state capital, close to the Texas Capitol and courts.
Career
Jackson practiced law in San Antonio, the seat of Bexar County in South Texas. He is listed as a partner of Jackson & Jackson Attorneys at Law, P.C., a firm serving clients in general business practice, real estate, corporate, banking, wills, and estate and trust law. The firm's San Antonio office is in the Milam Building, which opened in January 1928 as a 21-story structure. At the time it was reported to be the nation's tallest brick and reinforced-concrete building and the first high-rise air-conditioned office building in the country. The building was named after Ben Milam, a leader of the Texas Revolution, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
A San Antonio firm biography for Charles H. Jackson III describes more than fifty years of practice in San Antonio and South Texas. According to that account, his work concentrated on estate planning, probate, general and commercial business, and rural real estate, and his practice included complex real estate transactions for buyers, sellers, borrowers, lenders, landlords, and tenants.
