A task force designed to help the Texas courts system resume criminal proceedings in light of the COVID-19 pandemic won approval June 24 from the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors. The board approved the Presidential Task Force on Criminal Court Proceedings at the request of 2020-2021 State Bar President Larry McDougal, a Richmond … Continue Reading
The Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, or TCDLA, will honor the Declaration of Independence with public readings across the state on July 3. The readings will take place in about 140 communities across Texas and will celebrate the 243rd anniversary of independence from Great Britain.… Continue Reading
The Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, or TCDLA, will host readings of the Declaration of Independence across the state in recognition of the Fourth of July. The readings, which will take place in over 100 Texas counties on July 3, have been sponsored by TCDLA for several years. Some of the gatherings will also include … Continue Reading
The Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, or TCDLA, inducted three members into its hall of fame and named the Percy Foreman Lawyers of the Year and Charlie Butts Pro Bono Award winner at the 31st Annual Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Course on June 21-23 in San Antonio. Daniel Hurley, of Lubbock, Frank Jackson, of … Continue Reading
All across the state on the Fourth of July, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association members will lead readings of the Declaration of Independence. The annual recitation of the nation’s founding document is a tradition started seven years ago by Houston criminal defense lawyer Robert Fickman, a past president of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association.… Continue Reading
Across the state’s 254 counties today, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association members led readings of the Declaration of Independence in honor of the Fourth of July. State Bar of Texas President-elect Tom Vick of Weatherford joined in the tradition in Parker County, telling the Texas Bar Blog it was a “moving exercise.” In Austin, criminal defense attorneys … Continue Reading
More than 800 criminal defense attorneys from across the state converged on San Antonio last week for the Texas Criminal Defense Layers Association’s annual meeting. The 29th Annual Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Course—the largest gathering of criminal defense lawyers in the Southwest—on June 16-18 featured continuing legal education, court and law updates, and honored … Continue Reading
For the fifth consecutive year, members of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association will celebrate the Fourth of July by gathering at dozens of courthouses across the state to recite the Declaration of Independence. An annual TCDLA tradition that started in 2010 at the Harris County Courthouse, this year’s event on Thursday, July 2, is … Continue Reading
Michael Morton-subject of magazine profiles, focus of an acclaimed documentary, author of an upcoming memoir-is by many measures a celebrity. It's a label he doesn't relish, especially in light of the reason so many people know his name, Morton recently told an audience of San Antonio defense lawyers.… Continue Reading
Michael Morton, whose wrongful conviction and exoneration attracted widespread attention and led to criminal justice reforms in the last Texas Legislature, will be among the keynote speakers this week at the 27th Annual Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Course in San Antonio.… Continue Reading