TEXAS LAWYERS FOR TEXAS VETERANS - State Bar of Texas
TEXAS LAWYERS FOR TEXAS VETERANS
2012-2013
LEGAL CLINIC HIGHLIGHTS
Since the project's launch in 2010, under the leadership of then President Terry Tottenham, more than 10,000 veterans have been assisted by more than 3,000 volunteer attorneys through local bar association veterans' legal clinics.
The base continues to expand nationwide. Most recently, State Bar of Texas delegates participated in a training
session for the New Mexico Bar Association that is implementing a veterans' civil justice initiative.
Houston Bar Association 2012-2013 President Brent Benoit and attorney Susan Sanchez provide legal services to veterans at Houston Stand Down.
The Houston Bar Foundation, Jefferson County Bar Foundation, and Fort Bend Lawyers
Care were joined by Baylor Law School and the Austin
Bar Foundation in an expanded coalition to provide legal
services to veterans in a 17-county area, serving a veteran
population of 500,000.
The Houston Bar Association conducts weekly clinics at the DeBakey VA Medical Center, providing assistance to an average of 36 veterans per week; monthly clinics at the U.S. VETS at Midtown Terrace residential facility; and quarterly clinics at DeGeorge at Union Station residential facility. The HBA and its Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program have assisted more than 7,500 veterans since 2008.
The Tarrant County Bar Foundation received the 2012 National Conference of Bar Foundations LexisNexis Partnerships for Success Award for its Texas Lawyers for Texas Veterans--TCBA Chapter. Since July 2012, the Tarrant County Bar has served more than 330 veterans by more than 50 volunteer attorneys. TCBA currently takes 60 appointments per clinic and numerous calls for veterans unable to attend clinics due to health or transportation problems.
The Collin County Bar Association, Frisco Bar
Association, Plano Bar Association, Collin County Young
Lawyers Association, Collin County Criminal Defense
Lawyers Association, and Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas have partnered to hold free legal advice clinics bimonthly
Attorneys from the Tarrant County Bar Association participate in the Fort Worth Stand Down for Homeless Veterans.
for veterans. Since January 2012, 64 veterans have been served by 28 volunteer attorneys.
At its November 2012 veterans' clinic at the Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home, the El Paso Bar
Since June 2012, the Jefferson County Bar Association has assisted approximately 40 veterans by more than 25 volunteer attorneys at veterans' legal clinics.
A veteran receives advice at the El Paso Lawyers for Patriots Clinic in November 2012.
Association partnered with 12 veterans agencies and held public information seminars for veterans. Volunteer attorneys provided one-on-one consultations for more than 30 veterans.
Approximately 150
volunteer attorneys from
the Austin Bar
Association have assisted
approximately 300
veterans at veterans' legal
A one-on-one legal consultation at the Austin Bar Association's monthly veterans' clinic.
clinics since May 2012. The San Antonio Bar
Association Community Justice Program had more than
85 volunteer attorneys provide legal advice to 166
veterans during its monthly veterans' legal clinics. Thanks
to a grant from the Texas Access to Justice Foundation,
the CJP created a video to further its outreach efforts
to veterans.
The Galveston County Bar Association held its first clinic in February 2012 and assisted 31 veterans with the help of 14 volunteer attorneys.
VETERANS DAY 2012
To commemorate Veterans Day, 17 veterans' clinics were held across the state in all the major metropolitan areas as well as in Beaumont, Bell County, Brazoria County, Hidalgo County, Longview, Midland/Big Spring, and Porter.
Baylor Law School
held a veterans'
wills clinic, where
attorneys and law
students drafted
wills and estate
Volunteer attorneys at the Smith County Bar Association's first veterans' legal clinic.
planning documents for 25
veterans. The Hidalgo County Bar Foundation and the
Hidalgo County Bar Association hosted a Wills for
Heroes clinic and provided free wills to more than 50
veterans of South Texas.
The Bell County Bar Association sponsored a legal advice clinic for veterans near Killeen, serving more than 40 veterans.
ATTORNEY TRAINING
The Texas Young Lawyers Association distributed more
than 11,500 Resources for Veterans Seeking Help guides
and approximately 3,300 Resources for Lawyers Assisting
Veterans guides.
Thanks to a
grant awarded
by the
American
College of
Trial Lawyers,
The State Bar of Texas offered a free CLE webcast on the State Bar
the basics of veterans benefits.
of Texas was
able to provide a free live webcast, The Basics of Veterans
Benefits Law: Part II, to those committing to volunteer
at a veterans' legal clinic.
The Dallas Bar Association held a CLE training on veterans benefits in January 2013 for approximately 50 attorneys. The DBA serves 45 veterans each month and has approximately 12 attorney volunteers at its veterans' legal service clinics.
SPECIAL EVENTS
The Texas Access to Justice Commission raised $340,600 for the provision of civil legal services to low-income veterans at its Champions of Justice Gala in April 2013. The State Bar of Texas sponsored the event to ensure that all proceeds go to veterans' legal assistance.
With the help of a partnership with the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Court Reporters Association records the oral histories of American wartime veterans as part of the Library
Volunteer attorneys, paralegals,
and court reporters join forces of Congress Veterans History to record veterans' war stories. Project. TCRA members have recorded approximately 200 interviews in conjunction with local bar associations in San Antonio, Dallas, Rockwall, Austin, Houston, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Hillsboro, and Fort Worth.
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