TYLA Officers
   

Rebekah Steely Brooker, President
   

Dustin M. Howell, Chair
   

Sam Houston, Vice President
   

Baili B. Rhodes, Secretary
   

John W. Shaw, Treasurer
   

C. Barrett Thomas, President-elect
   

Priscilla D. Camacho, Chair-elect
   

Kristy Blanchard, Immediate Past President

TYLA Directors
   

Amanda A. Abraham, District 1
   

Sharesa Y. Alexander, Minority At-Large Director
   

Raymond J. Baeza, District 14
    Aaron J. Burke, District 5, Place 1
   

Aaron T. Capps, District 5, Place 2
   

D. Lance Currie, District 5, Place 3
   

Laura W. Docker, District 10, Place 1
    Andrew Dornburg, District 21
    John W. Ellis, District 8, Place 2
    Zeke Fortenberry, District 4
   

Bill Gardner, District 5, Place 4
   

Morgan L. Gaskin, District 6, Place 5
    Nick Guinn, District 18, Place 1
   

Adam C. Harden, District 6, Place 6
   

Amber L. James, District 17
   

Curtis W. Lucas, District 9
    Rudolph K. Metayer, District 8, Palce 1
   

Laura Pratt, District 3
    Sally Pretorius, District 8, Place 2
   

Baili B. Rhodes, District 2
   

Alex B. Roberts, District 6, Place 3
    Eduardo Romero, District 19
    Michelle P. Scheffler, District 6, Place 2
   

John W. Shaw, District 10, Place 2
    Nicole Soussan, District 6, Place 4
    L. Brook Stuntebeck, District 11
   

C. Barrett Thomas, District 15
    Judge Amanda N. Torres, Minority At-Large Director
   

Shannon Steel White, District 12
    Brandy Wingate Voss, District 13
    Veronica S. Wolfe, District 18, Place 2
   

Baylor Wortham, District 7
    Alex Yarbrough, District 16

   

Justice Paul W. Green, Supreme Court Liaison
   

Jenny Smith, Access To Justice Liaison
   

Brandon Crisp, ABA YLD District 25 Representative
   

Travis Patterson, ABA/YLD District 26 Representative
   

Assistant Dean Jill Nikirk, Law School Liaison
   

Belashia Wallace, Law Student Liaison

 

 
TYLA Office

Tracy Brown, Director of Administration
Bree Trevino, Project Coordinator
Michelle Palacios, Office Manager
General Questions: tyla@texasbar.com

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Austin, Texas 78711-2487
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Feature TYLA Project

Feature TYLA Project

Win Bragging Rights for your Local Affiliate!
By: Kristy Piazza

Hopefully you have heard about Partnering for Pro Bono, an innovative new project to encourage and facilitate pro bono work between in-house counsel and law firm lawyers. After registering at www.tyla.org/partneringforprobono, in-house counsel lawyers are matched with law firm lawyers and the newly-formed team selects a case from the website.

TYLA is challenging YOU to get involved with this project with a contest! All attorneys who go to the website, select a match, and get assigned to a case between now and September 1, 2011, 5:00 p.m. CST will be entered to win the following for their local affiliate:

• A FREE TYLA Road Show social for your affiliate members!
• Recognition for your affiliate in TYLA eNews (to more than 24,000 young lawyers)
• Recognition for your affiliate on the TYLA website and the Partnering for Pro Bono Website
• Recognition for your affiliate at the TYLA Annual Meeting in 2012!

The deadline to take a case for the contest is September 1, 2011, 5:00 p.m. CST.

Partnering for Pro Bono was introduced as an additional tool to assist the overflowing of cases handled by various legal aid entities. As you know, Texas attorneys are addressing less than 25% of legal needs of low income Texans today. While there is 1 lawyer for every 322 Texans, there is only 1 legal aid lawyer for every 11,512 poor Texans. Thus, Partnering for Pro Bono was implemented to encourage more attorneys to assist with the need.

By partnering to take a case, in-house counsel not licensed in Texas can participate with a licensed firm attorney. The work load is split between two attorneys instead of overwhelming one already swamped firm associate. Both attorneys are covered by State Bar of Texas malpractice insurance. Plus, it provides a networking opportunity for all the attorneys involved, and each attorney can earn up to 5 hours CLE.

If you have any questions, please contact Kristy Piazza .

Over 200 lawyers from over 100 different law firms and corporations have already signed up! Have you?