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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 […]

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 […]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is accepting comments about proposed amendments to 5th Circuit Rule 47.5.4. Read the full notice, which includes the proposed redline changes, on the court’s website.

  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 Lauren Sepúlveda, a McAllen-based municipal judge and chair of the Texas Young Lawyers Association. While the first in her immediate family to practice law, Sepulveda is part […]

The State Bar of Texas Board of Directors held its quarterly meeting September 30 in McAllen. Highlights of the meeting appear below. You can watch video of the meeting at youtube.com/statebaroftexas and read the agenda and meeting materials at texasbar.com/bodmaterials. 2023 President-elect Election Update

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 […]

By Kent Altsuler Remember when mediations were in person? Since March 2020, I’ve conducted hundreds of mediations, and almost all of them have been by Zoom. Zoom mediations started because of health concerns, of course. Even though the coronavirus appears to be finally in check, it seems that this trend in favor of Zoom may […]