Austin Bar Blog

Do you enjoy volunteerism, charitable work, and supporting initiatives and programs aimed at bettering our legal community and community at large? If so, the Austin Bar Foundation Board, the charitable arm of the Austin Bar Association, needs you! We're accepting applications for new Foundation Board members. Please submit application to DeLaine Ward by August 19, 2022.

Put your firm at the forefront of what’s happening in the legal community by becoming a member of our 100 Club. Firms of four or more attorneys with 100 percent participation in the Austin Bar Association are eligible to participate. Join now and get the visibility your firm deserves. Members of our 100 Club receive special privileges throughout the year in the following ways:

• Names of firms published annually in the September issue of Austin Lawyer and distributed to every attorney in the Austin area.
• Firms featured on the membership page of the Austin Bar website with links to the firms’ websites.
• Each week a 100 Club “Members of the Week” are listed on a rotating basis in Bar Code and emailed weekly to approximately 3,500 Austin Bar members.

If you would like your firm to be part of the 100 Club please contact Carol Tobias.

Attorney volunteers will provide brief legal advice in their preferred practice area(s) to veterans in need. Walk-ins are welcome or veterans may pre-register online.  Sign up starts at 1:30 p.m. and please sign in before 3:30 p.m.

Austin VA Outpatient Clinic | 7901 Metropolis Drive | Austin, Texas, 78744

Veterans can also complete an intake application via phone.  Call 512.472.0279 x110 to see if you qualify.

Volunteers may select a specific timeslot or attend the entire duration of the clinic to provide advice. Sign up here.

Please join us for an AYLA members Bar Year Kick-off Docket Call.
Thursday, August 18, 2022 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CT
Hilgers House | 712 W. 16th St.

RSVP Today!

Not a member? You can join AYLA today here.

Thank you to our sponsor, Thompson Law.

Please help the Austin Young Lawyers Association this summer support Carrying Hope. Carrying Hope is a local nonprofit founded in 2016 by foster parents and advocates who were heartbroken watching children arrive on their doorsteps with nothing but the clothes on their backs. They came up with the idea for Hope Packs: backpacks filled with everything a child would need during his/her/their first 24-48 hours in a new home. Since 2016 they have distributed more than 15,000 Hope Packs to CPS and foster care agencies across the state. Items can be selected from the Amazon Wishlist all summer long, please select to deliver to Debbie Kelly. At the beginning of the 2022-2023 bar year in August, AYLA will host an event at Hilgers to put the packs together to donate to Carrying Hope.

This course is designed to train attorneys on how to effectively prepare a witness for deposition and/or trial testimony.

Friday, August 26, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Speaker: Magna Legal Services | Sponsored by: LawPay

Register here.

One of the many benefits of membership is access to Austin Lawyer. Did you know you can receive the monthly publication both digitally and by mail? Just go to your profile, then preferences, and choose to get your hard copy mailed to you. Then, share it with your firm or team! Everybody wins with Austin Lawyer.

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In memory of Stan Coppinger, a former member, who made a difference in the legal community and toured the world for music. Read the full obituary here.

Functions of the U.S. Marshals Service
Thu, August 18, 2022 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM CT | Online

Speaker: Deputy United States Marshal Brandon Filla

Brandon Filla is a Deputy United States Marshal (DUSM) and has been for 15 years in the Del Rio Division and Austin Division located in the Western District of Texas. He served in court operations and now serves in fugitive apprehension with collateral duty as the Public Affairs Officer (PAO) for the Austin Division.

To RSVP and receive the Zoom link for this event please email Joseph Gagen.