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

Mailing Address

P.O. Box 12487, Capitol Station
Austin, Texas 78711-2487
(800) 204-2222 ext. 1529
FAX: (512) 427-4117

Street Address

1414 Colorado, 4th Floor
Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 427-1529

 

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Young Lawyers Salary Survey:  What is Your Market Value in Today’s Economy?
By:  Fort Worth-Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association

In  the  fall  of  2012,  the  Fort  Worth-Tarrant  County  Young  Lawyers  Association (TCYLA) conducted an anonymous and confidential Salary Survey of the young lawyers in Tarrant County, Texas.1   The purpose of conducting the Salary Survey was to inform Tarrant County’s young lawyers of reasonable expectations of their market value in the Tarrant County legal community.   The Salary Survey took into account several factors, such as the lawyer’s years in practice, type of law office, and size of law office, among others.

Out of 875 eligible voters, almost 25%2 responded to the Salary Survey.  The primary categories of information collected include:

• Salary
• Frequency of salary increases
• Bonuses
• Employee benefits
• Vacation
• Partnership track
• Billing clients

Once the data was collected from the Salary Survey, TCYLA reviewed each voter's responses to create categories of information specific to TCYLA members’ individual situations. For example, the Salary Survey details, among other things, the average salary for a young lawyer that has practiced for X years and works in a law firm with Y lawyers.

When reviewing this Salary Survey, please take into consideration that the results are limited to the responses received.  Therefore, some responses may appear skewed because of the responses in that category.  Further, due to the low number of participating part-time and contract attorneys, responses to those questions were not included in this Salary Survey.

Publication of this Salary Survey was funded by a grant from the Texas Young Lawyers Association.  We hope that this Salary Survey provides you with invaluable information about your market value in the Tarrant County legal community.

To review the salary survey results in their entirety please click here.

1 The Salary Survey was created by TCYLA and conducted on October 15, 2012, through November 2, 2012, using a third-party online survey company.  A “young lawyer” is defined as any individual who resides or practices in Tarrant County, Texas, and is thirty-six years of age or younger or has practiced less than ten years.
2 A total of 217 eligible voters responded to this survey.