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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]
The Texas Board of Legal Specialization (TBLS) was established on July 16, 1974, by the State Bar of Texas. TBLS oversees the recognition and regulation of attorneys who specialize in particular areas of law in the state of Texas. Today, the organization certifies attorneys in 24 different specialty areas and paralegals in six specialty areas.
Martindale-Hubbell is an information services company to the legal profession [ 2] that was founded in 1868. The company publishes the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, which provides background information on lawyers [ 3] and law firms in the United States and other countries. It also published the Martindale Hubbell Law Digest, a summary of ...
t. e. Admission to the bar in the United States is the granting of permission by a particular court system to a lawyer to practice law in the jurisdiction. Each U.S. state and jurisdiction (e.g. territories under federal control) has its own court system and sets its own rules and standards for bar admission. In most cases, a person is admitted ...
A state bar association is a bar association that represents or seeks to represent the attorneys practicing law in a particular U.S. state. Their functions differ from state to state, but often include administration of the state bar examination for admission of attorneys to practice law, regulation of continuing legal education (CLE) and other ...
Harold Valderas: [58] First Latino American male to serve as a judge in North Texas (1971) and district court judge in Central Texas (1977) Don B. Chae: [59] First Asian American male lawyer (1980) and judge (1995) in North Texas. William Melvin Schultz (c. 1960): [60] First Jewish American male lawyer in the Southern District of Texas.
Charles Fincher. Dave Finney. List of first women lawyers and judges in Texas. Trey Martinez Fischer. Gerald J. Ford. Percy Foreman. De Witt Clinton Fort. Charles Foster (attorney) Martin Frost.
The State Bar of Texas initially declined to take up a Democratic Party activist's complaint that Paxton's petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court to block Joe Biden’s victory was frivolous and ...