The Texas Bar Foundation awarded a $20,000 grant to the State Bar of Texas Law-Related Education Department and Law Focused Education, Inc. to fund their newest project: Jury Service: Your Call of Duty. The project is designed educate students and the public about the role of jury service in our democracy and will debut in … Continue Reading
Editor’s Note: State Bar of Texas President Randy Sorrels and Executive Director Trey Apffel sent the following message to members on Friday. We hope this message finds you safe and well. We are writing to share the latest updates related to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Stay Home, Stay Safe” Orders and Travel Authorization for Lawyers Many … Continue Reading
State Bar of Texas Law-Related Education is now accepting applications for the 2019 Leon Jaworski Award for Teaching Excellence in Law Focused Education.… Continue Reading
The State Bar of Texas Law-Related Education Department has announced the redesign of its website, texaslre.org. The LRE aims to improve law-related and civic education programs throughout the state through curriculum development and educator training. The redesigned site features two buttons front and center that provide educators with either professional development resources or lesson plans. … Continue Reading
Students in the Regional Day School Program for the Deaf at Bonham Elementary in El Paso got to dip their toes into the law for a day thanks to a federal judge and local attorneys. The pupils turned mock legal practitioners tried a faux case on September 30, using characters from the Disney movie Snow … Continue Reading
A group of Austin school children got a lesson on what it means to be a lawyer Thursday from American Bar Association President Paulette Brown. Brown, in Texas as part of her national Main Street initiative, joined members of the Austin Young Lawyers Association at Overton Elementary to speak to a Boys & Girls Club … Continue Reading
A Frisco ISD teacher who helps write curriculum for State Bar of Texas law-related education programs has received statewide recognition for her leadership in social studies education.… Continue Reading
The 2015 Law-Related Education Conference will be held Jan. 30-31, 2015, at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. The focus of the conference will be on the journey to achieve civil rights from the beginning of our nation to the present.… Continue Reading
The Constitution is a crucial thread in the fabric of our country's history. As former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor once said, the Constitution changed world history "for the perpetual benefit of mankind. In 1787, no country in the world had ever allowed its citizens to select their own form of government, much less to select a democratic government."… Continue Reading
The State Bar of Texas is hosting 26 student teachers for the 17th annual Hatton W. Sumners Student Teacher Institute today at the Texas Law Center in Austin.… Continue Reading
A State Bar of Texas project educating elementary students on important firsts in U.S. and Texas history has been awarded a National Association of Bar Executives LexisNexis Community and Educational Outreach Award. The award honors outstanding bar public service and law-related education programs.… Continue Reading
Austin recently played host to the Texas Citizen Bee Finals, a statewide civics education competition funded by the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation.… Continue Reading
As students across the state returned to the classrooms to kick off a new school year this August, the opportunity for attorneys to host a session of the State Bar of Texas project "I was the first. Vote for Me!" also began.… Continue Reading
Nearly 30 Texas educators have been selected to attend the Fifth Annual Teachers' Law School, a three-day legal education program July 18-20 at the Texas Law Center in Austin.… Continue Reading
Current and future civics teachers from across the state got a chance to hold mock oral arguments Wednesday at the Texas Supreme Court.… Continue Reading
