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In January, the State Bar of Texas introduced its Identity Fraud Flag Program, which seeks to assist attorneys who have been victims of identity fraud and protect them from scammers potentially attempting to impersonate them. The program gives lawyers a way to voluntarily report to the bar that they have been the victim of identity […]

Nonprofit Texas Appleseed will honor A. Shonn Brown and the late Clarence B. Brown III with the J. Chrys Dougherty Good Apple Award at the 20th annual Good Apple Dinner on November 17. The Pro Bono Leadership Awards will be presented to Deloitte Consulting and Enoch Kever. The event honors legal leaders and advocates whose […]

The Dallas Bar Association announced the NBC 5/KXAS-TV team of Eva Parks, Scott Friedman, and Jose Sanchez as its 2022 Stephen Philbin Award Grand Prize Winner. The team’s entry, “Paper Tag Nation,” examined the extensive impacts of fraudulent Texas license plates, their threat to the public and police, and how the Texas Department of Motor […]

Following the tragedy at Robb Elementary School that increased the community’s need for free civil legal aid services, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, or TRLA, on Monday announced the opening of a new civil legal aid office located in Uvalde. The new office is funded by the Texas Access to Justice Foundation, or TAJF, which will […]

Are too many leads falling through the cracks? Inefficient client intake workflows might be the culprit. Law firms suffer from three issues:

Editor’s Note: In this blog series, we are getting to know the members of the Texas Young Lawyers Association Board of Directors. TYLA, commonly called the “public service arm” of the State Bar of Texas, works to facilitate the administration of justice, foster respect for the law, and advance the role of the legal profession in […]

Each year in Texas, October 23 is recognized as Paralegal Day to honor the paralegal community and its contributions. The State Bar of Texas Paralegal Division encourages everyone to honor paralegals by celebrating Texas Paralegal Day. October 23 marks the 41st anniversary of the division’s founding in 1981. The division was created to promote high standards of conduct, professional ethics, and […]

In recognition of National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15), which celebrates the contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans to the United States, the Texas Bar Blog connected with Guillermo Hernández III, a San Antonio-based immigration law and personal injury law attorney and District 18, Place 2 director of the Texas Young Lawyers Association. The […]

Congratulations to everyone who passed the July 2022 Texas Bar Exam! The Texas Board of Law Examiners has posted the full pass list for the exam.

Legal professionals are increasingly concerned about how managing administrative tasks is impacting their ability to apply their expertise to more interesting, higher-value work. And according to a Bloomberg Law report, 61% of law firms and 70% of in-house legal teams say improved efficiency is the primary driver of their technology implementations.  Future-thinking organizations are identifying repetitive, manual […]