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Then in 1911, the Seventh Court of Civil Appeals in Amarillo and the Eighth Court of Civil Appeals in El Paso were created. Soon after that, the Ninth Court of Civil Appeals was created in Beaumont in 1915, the Tenth was created in Waco in 1923, and the Eleventh was created in Eastland in 1925. [13]
In 2000, Texas Tech University School of Law had a 100% bar passage rate for first-time exam takers for the February 2000 Bar Examination. [13] The school's bar passage rate for first-timers taking the July 2017 exam was 87.12%, placing Texas Tech School of Law in the top three law schools in Texas for 2017 bar passage rates. [14]
In one of the odd provisions of the Texas Government Code, there is no requirement that a municipal judge be an attorney if the municipal court is not a court of record (Chapter 29, Section 29.004), but the municipal judge must be a licensed attorney with at least two years experience in practicing Texas law if the municipal court is a court of ...
An attorney defending Texas’ controversial immigration law told a federal appeals court on Wednesday that state legislators may have gone “too far” when they passed the law last year.
Frank Galvan: [97] Reputed to be the first Mexican American male lawyer in El Paso, El Paso County, Texas; Albert Armendariz, Sr. (1950): [30] [31] First Hispanic American male to serve as a federal judge in El Paso, Texas (1976) George Rodriguez: [98] First Hispanic American to serve as the President of the El Paso Bar Association, Texas
The 15th Court of Appeals dismissed Paxton’s appeal, citing “lack of jurisdiction.” The case was originally punted from the trial court to the Third Court of Appeals before landing in the ...
Michael Keasler – Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals since 1999 [40] Royce C. Lamberth – Chief Judge United States District Court for the District of Columbia; Debra Lehrmann – former 360th District Court Judge in Fort Worth; Texas Supreme Court Justice (2011– )
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) is an agency of the U.S. state of Texas's government that oversees all public post-secondary education in the state. It is headquartered at 1801 North Congress Avenue in Austin. [1] THECB determines which Texas public four-year universities are permitted to start or continue degree programs.