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The Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program, an initiative of the Dallas Bar Association, Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas, and local lawyers, is hosting free virtual and in-person legal clinics for eligible Dallas County residents throughout April. All virtual clinics run from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.: Click Here To Read The Full Article

Texas attorneys will choose new leaders in an election beginning April 1. Voting will continue throughout the month, with results announced April 30.  Voting will take place electronically. Attorneys should look for an email April 1 from the State Bar’s election service provider, Election Services Corporation, with voting instructions. Alternatively, they can visit the bar’s […]

The State Bar of Texas Executive Committee will meet at 10 a.m. CDT on March 31 at the Texas Law Center in Austin. The meeting is open to the public and will be streamed live on the State Bar of Texas YouTube page.  The agenda can be viewed here. Among other agenda items, the committee will hear updates on the SBOT 2026-2027 proposed budget and the president-elect and district director elections.  […]

The team from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts from Dallas won the 47th annual Texas High School Mock Trial Competition on March 7 at the George Allen Courthouse in Dallas. Booker T. Washington’s team will represent Texas at the 2026 National High School Mock Trial Competition in Des Moines, […]

In this episode of the State Bar of Texas Podcast, host Rocky Dhir welcomes two attorneys from the Texas professional sports scene: Eunice Nakamura, executive vice president, general counsel for the Texas Rangers Major League Baseball team, and James O’Sullivan, general counsel for the Major League Soccer team FC Dallas. They provide an inside look at […]

For many small and midsize law firms, “financial reporting” means pulling numbers from multiple systems. Time tracking lives in one platform, invoices in another, payments elsewhere, and trust accounting may be maintained separately. Individually, each system works, but collectively, they create gaps. When financial data doesn’t live together, your clarity disappears. Click Here To Read […]

The Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program, an initiative of the Dallas Bar Association, Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas, and local lawyers, is hosting free virtual and in-person legal clinics for eligible Dallas County residents throughout March. All virtual clinics run from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.: Click Here To Read The Full Article

In this episode of the State Bar of Texas Podcast, host Rocky Dhir welcomes legal historian and appellate lawyer William J. Basileios Chriss and Supreme Court of Texas Justice Evan A. Young to mark the sesquicentennial of the Texas Constitution. They offer a deep dive into the foundational document’s history and evolution, tracing its iterations […]

A New Era of Cross-Border Litigation Texas courts are facing more cross-border disputes today than at any other moment in the state’s history. Every week, judges and litigators encounter Mexican civil documents, addresses registered across different Mexican states, contracts executed abroad, and families whose lives move fluidly between two very different legal systems. And yet […]

Benny Agosto Jr., managing partner in Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner, is the 2026 Houston Bar Foundation (HBF) chair. Agosto succeeded 2025 HBF Chair Sara Keith during the foundation’s annual luncheon on February 17 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Houston. Agosto said that as chair of the HBF, he intends to lead […]