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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).
Robert L. Pitman: [39] First openly LGBT male to serve as a U.S. Attorney in Texas (2011-2014) Nicholas Ganjei: [51] First person of color to serve as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas (2021) Alamdar S. Hamdani: [52] First Asian American male to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas (2022)
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
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 ...
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 ]
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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]
In common law countries with divided legal professions, barristers traditionally belong to the bar council (or an Inn of Court) and solicitors belong to the law society. In the English-speaking world, the largest mandatory professional association of lawyers is the State Bar of California , with 230,000 members.