Gerry W. Beyer (St. Mary’s), author of the popular casebook Teaching Materials on Estate Planning (West, 3rd ed. 2005) (and the Editor of Wills, Trusts & Estates Blog as part of our Law Professor Blogs Network), has accepted a position as the Governor Preston E. Smith Regent’s Professor of Law at Texas Tech (as of June 1), "one of the largest endowed professorships in the history of the Texas Tech University School of Law….Governor Preston Smith, now deceased, was the person who both championed and signed the legislation creating the Texas Tech University School of Law."