The Texas Access to Justice Commission and its co-sponsor, the State Bar of Texas, honored veterans throughout the state at the Champions of Justice Gala Benefiting Veterans last Wednesday night at the…
The Texas Bar Foundation has awarded a $12,000 grant supporting the 2025 Texas Elder Justice Coalition Summit, a gathering of frontline professionals confronting the crisis of elder fraud and financial exploitation, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 10, 2025 at the Amon Carter Event Center at Lena Pope in Fort Worth.…
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G. David Smith
Texas attorneys elected G. David Smith, of Rockwall, to be president-elect of the State Bar of Texas and Armin Salek, of Austin, as president-elect of the Texas Young Lawyers Association during a monthlong voting period that ended today.
Smith received 52.03% — 8,541 — of the 16,417 votes…
After a while, you learn that the most useful numbers aren’t always the obvious ones. Billables and revenue matter — but they won’t tell you everything. The additional insight comes from tracking a few key metrics, month after month.
Here are three metrics worth putting on your monthly agenda. They dig deeper than surface-level stats…
The State Bar of Texas Board of Directors will meet at 8 a.m. on April 25 at the Houston Marriott Sugar Land in Sugar Land. The meeting is open to the public and will be broadcast live on the State Bar of Texas YouTube channel.
The meeting agenda is available here. Among the…
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Ah yes, the billable hour – a lawyer’s ticket to unlimited wealth, or so we think anyway. If we’re not careful, it’s also a ticket to stress, countless headaches, and often for new lawyers and even experienced ones, total burnout. And the three main perks of billable hours can also be your downfall if you’re…
The Texas Center for Legal Ethics reached its 35th anniversary this year, and is celebrating by gifting one hour of free ethics CLE to all Texas attorneys, the organization said in a press release.
The course consists…
Supreme Court of Texas Senior Justice Debra Lehrmann will receive the Samuel Pessarra Outstanding Jurist Award from the Texas Bar Foundation during the foundation’s annual dinner on June 20 at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort in San Antonio.
The award recognizes active or retired federal or state judges with “an exceptional reputation…
