June 2024 | Vol. 86, No. 6
Discipline,
Ethics & Civility Doing what we ought to do.
Plus
Preparing for and responding
to cybersecurity incidents.
Features
Chris
Spendlove’s Rookie Year
The Texas Bar Journal tags along a McLennan
County assistant district attorney’s first year of practice.
Written by Eric Quitugua
2024
Election Results
Results
of the State Bar of Texas
Rules Vote 2024
It’s
Giving ‘Ethical Obligations’!
The pitfalls of using social media as attorneys.
Written by Lorena Valle
Are
Professionalism and Civility
a Thing of the Past?
Observations on the changing practice of law and how
firms are challenging lawyers to maintain civility in their
interactions with other counsel.
Written by Morgan Bird, Jazmine Ford, and Rachel
Wall
Civility
Doing what we ought to do.
Written by Ysmael D. Fonseca
Supreme
Court of Texas Order
Order Setting Public Deliberations on Amendments to the
Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct and the Texas
Rules of Disciplinary Procedure.
Supreme
Court of Texas Order
Renewed Emergency Order Regarding Indigent Defense and
the Border Security State of Disaster.
Supreme Court
of Texas Order
Final Approval of Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 34.5a
and of Amendments to Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure 35.3 and
38.6.
Ethics
Opinion 701
Departments
Executive
Director's Page
Looking Ahead to the Annual Meeting
Written by Trey Apffel
President's
Page
So Long, Farewell
Written by Cindy Tisdale
State
Bar Board Update
Board approves budget, 10% dues increase to support bar's
financial security
Written by Lowell Brown
State
Bar Director Spotlight
Shannon A.S. Quadros
Legal
Tech
Law Firms in the Crosshairs
Preparing for and responding to cybersecurity incidents.
Written by Candace McCaddon
Ethics
Question of the Month
TYLA
President's Page
A Parting Song (For This
Bar Year)
Written by Laura Pratt
Solo/Small
Firm
The Intersection of Social Media
and SEO
A solid strategy lends to a law firm’s
credibility and trustworthiness.
Written by Stacey E. Burke
Disciplinary
Actions
Movers
and Shakers
Memorials
Classified
Advertising
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