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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 2023, membership in the Texas Bar stood at 113,771. [6]
John C. Alaniz (1957): [77] [78] First Hispanic American male (a lawyer) elected to the Texas State House of Representatives from Bexar County, Texas (1960) Andrew L. Jefferson Jr. (1959): [ 79 ] First African American male to serve as the Assistant District Attorney of Bexar County, Texas (1961)
The first federal judge in Texas was John C. Watrous, who was appointed on May 26, 1846, and had previously served as Attorney General of the Republic of Texas. He was assigned to hold court in Galveston, at the time, the largest city in the state. As seat of the Texas Judicial District, the Galveston court had jurisdiction over the whole state ...
Jenkens settled a number of malpractice lawsuits in 1987 for $18 million. In the 1990s, Jenkens saw intense growth and added offices outside Texas for the first time to expand from a regional into a national law firm. Opening a Chicago office with a tax attorney team from Altheimer & Gray in 1998 would become the most fateful act for the firm. [1]
The action alleges a scheme by Renren insiders to wrongfully to take the company’s billion-dollar investment portfolio for themselves (In re Renren, Inc. Derivative Litigation, Index Number: 653594/2018, Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, Commercial Division). In both trial court and on appeal, Defendants’ motions to ...
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Stephen F. Austin State University (Texas) 2024 Wordmark, featuring the inclusion of the University of Texas System. ... This image or logo only consists of typefaces ...
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.