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
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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…
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…
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…
Hosted by Texas A&M University Health’s Institute for Healthcare Access, the Texas Medical-Legal Partnership will hold its 2026 MLP Conference on April 16-18 at the Hilton Fort Worth.
Attendees will explore real-world insights, practical tools, and forward-looking strategies that not…
The State Bar of Texas Board of Directors will meet at 8 a.m. on January 30 at the Hilton Fort Worth in Fort Worth. The meeting is open to the public and will be broadcast live on the State Bar of Texas YouTube channel.
The agenda can…