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Friedman, Lawrence M. American Law in the twentieth century (Yale UP, 2004) especially chapters 2 and 15 on the legal profession. Gawalt, Gerard W. ed. The New High Priests: Lawyers in Post–Civil War America (1984). online; Gawalt, Gerard W. The Promise of Power: The Emergence of the Legal Profession in Massachusetts, 1760–1840 (1979).
The State Bar of Texas is composed of those persons licensed to practice law in Texas and is an "integrated" or "mandatory" bar. The State Bar Act, adopted by the Legislature in 1939, mandates that all attorneys licensed to practice law in Texas be members of the State Bar. [4] [5] As of 2018, membership in the Texas Bar stood at 103,342. [6]
This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Texas.It includes the year in which the men were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are other distinctions such as the first minority men in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
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Hortense Sparks Ward (1910): [6] [7] First female lawyer in Texas, as well as the first female admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court (1915) Florence Bates (1914): [8] One of the first female lawyers in Texas. She would leave the profession and become a Hollywood actress later in life.
First male lawyer of Czech descent: Augustin Haidusek (c. 1870) [12] First African American male lawyer called to the English Bar: [13] Thomas Morris Chester (1870) First deaf male lawyer: Joseph G. Parkinson (1880) [14] First Turkish American male lawyer: James Ben Ali Haggin (c. 1880s) [15] First Chinese male lawyer: Hong Yen Chang (1888) [16]
As James Brundage has explained: "[by 1140], no one in Western Europe could properly be described as a professional lawyer or a professional canonist in anything like the modern sense of the term 'professional.' "[22]: 185 However, from 1150 onward, a small but increasing number of men became experts in canon law but only in furtherance of ...
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