The Texas Bar Foundation has awarded a $23,600 grant to support UNT Dallas College of Law’s two new community lawyering centers. The money, given for a one-year period as of April 22, will support the creation of the centers located in downtown Dallas and in the Frazier-Fair Park community in the south part of the … Continue Reading
The popular legal aid website texaslawhelp.org will soon get a makeover thanks to a grant from the Texas Bar Foundation. The Texas Legal Services Center received funding from the TBF to hire professional Web designers to refresh the site through enhancing its search engine, improving functionality, and creating a mobile version. Run by the center’s … Continue Reading
Last year, the Texas Advocacy Project provided legal services to 9,718 Texans, including hundreds of callers seeking information about protective orders for victims of abuse. According to the group, those who receive protective orders are 80 percent less likely to be re-victimized than those who do not. But for various reasons, victims don’t always receive … Continue Reading
The Houston-based organization Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse has received a $13,611 grant from the Texas Bar Foundation in support of its Legal Advocacy Project. AVDA’s legal services include six attorney and paralegal teams, as well as legal client advocates who work to support victims of domestic abuse. For more information on Aid to … Continue Reading
The Texas Bar Foundation recently welcomed several new members and officers to its board of trustees and fellows in a ceremony at the 2014 State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting in Austin on June 27, 2014. Melinda Wycoff with Wycoff Development and Construction took office as a public member of the Texas Bar Foundation Board … Continue Reading
About 20 Texas prosecutors and legal professionals will attend an upcoming conference on violence against women because of a grant from the Texas Bar Foundation.… Continue Reading
The president of Mongolia's top lawyers' association was in Dallas-Fort Worth on Friday for meetings on how to improve the country's bar and implement its newly adopted Bar Act.… Continue Reading
The Texas Bar Foundation is pleased to announce a new addition to their annual awards program, the Gregory S. Coleman Outstanding Appellate Lawyer Award.… Continue Reading
