Registration is now open for the 2021 State Bar of Texas Virtual Annual Meeting on June 17-18. For $185 you will have access to CLE programming from 20 State Bar sections and can earn up to 10 hours of CLE credit, including all of your ethics for the year. The CLE programming is available only from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. CDT on June 17. On June 18, from 10 a.m. to noon CDT,…

One of the things we hear regularly from the thousands of lawyers we work with is that there is increasing pressure to reduce costs for their clients — and it’s become more common in the past year particularly. But lowering fees rarely seems like a sustainable solution for firms who are also trying to manage increasing costs and new challenges. What’s a lawyer to do?…

The Texas Bar Foundation awarded a $20,000 grant to the State Bar of Texas Law-Related Education Department and Law Focused Education, Inc. to fund their newest project: Jury Service: Your Call of Duty. The project is designed educate students and the public about the role of jury service in our democracy and will debut in spring 2022. Jury Service: Your Call of Duty will consist of a webpage and videos that explain why the U.S.…

When Logan Brown was a 1L at Harvard Law School and preparing for an interview, she realized she needed something to wear that would make her look the part. She went shopping for a pantsuit but had trouble finding anything that was both professional and practical. Hearing the same concerns from her colleagues, Brown decided to solve the problem and launched Spencer Jane, a clothing line that specializes in formal yet comfortable apparel for women…

The State Bar of Texas will present its proposed fiscal year 2021-2022 budget to the Texas Supreme Court during a virtual meeting at 2 p.m. CDT on May 10. The State Bar will live stream the meeting at youtube.com/statebaroftexas. The proposed budget can be viewed at texasbar.com/finances or by clicking here. The State Bar published the proposed budget in the March 2021 issue of the Texas Bar Journal and held a public hearing on April…

Congratulations to everyone who passed the February 2021 and March 2021 Texas bar exams! The State Bar of Texas will hold a virtual swearing-in ceremony at 10 a.m. CDT on May 10.…

The Texas Lawyers’ Assistance Program has created a one-hour video and educational program that seeks to educate the legal community about the signs that someone may be suffering from depression and vulnerable to suicide. Lawyers can earn one hour of free ethics continuing legal education credit for watching the film Just Ask: How We Must Stop Minding Our Own Business in the Legal World. It can be viewed by selecting the “free CLE” tab texasbarcle.com…