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All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868–1968 (2017) online; Drachman, Virginia. Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History. (Harvard UP, 1998). Finkleman, Paul, ed. African Americans and the Legal Profession in Historical Perspectives: 1700–1990 (1992). McDaniel, Cecily Barker.
Pages in category "Legal history of Texas" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. ... List of first minority male lawyers and judges in Texas ...
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)
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. Beverly Tarpley (1952): [9] [10] [11] First female lawyer in Texas to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court; Charlye O. Farris (1953): [12] First African American female lawyer in Texas
A civil law notary is roughly analogous to a common law solicitor, except that, unlike solicitors, civil law notaries do not practice litigation. The legal profession has its origins in ancient Greece and Rome. Although in Greece it was forbidden to take payment for pleading the cause of another, the rule was widely flouted.
An attorney at law (or counsellor-at-law) in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in court on the retainer of clients. [1] As of January 1, 2023, there were 1,331,290 active lawyers in the United States. [ 2 ]
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]
Texas law generally prohibits a person who is not an attorney from representing a client in a personal injury or property damage matter, and punishes a violation as a misdemeanor. [9] Some states also criminalize the separate behavior of falsely claiming to be lawyer (in Texas, for example, this is a felony if done to obtain economic benefit). [10]