Heroes of the Courtroom Panel This Friday in Dallas

Prospective-inside-coverThe Texas Center for Legal Ethics’ Heroes of the Courtroom panel will reconvene at the State Bar’s Annual Meeting on Friday, June 21, in Dallas. Talmage Boston and William J. Chriss, the authors of two of our most popular titles, Raising the Bar and The Noble Lawyer, will discuss topics addressing the public perception and role of lawyers in American society.

Celebrated attorneys and academics in their own right, Boston and Chriss conducted the first Heroes panel at the Texas Law Center last fall to excellent reception. [...]

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Vote Today for the Year’s Best in Legal Fiction

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Be sure to visit the ABA Journal’s voting page to help select the winner of the 2013 Harper Lee Award, reserved for the year’s best legal novel.  Voting runs through June 30th and is down to the following three finalists: The Wrong Man by David Ellis, Havana Requiem by Paul Goldstein, and Defending Jacob by William Landay. The top writer, announced on July 16th, will win a signed copy of To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Update for the TexasBarBooks Navigational Toolbar

June 6, 2013

An updated version of the TexasBarBooks Navigational Toolbar is available via the URL below: http://www.texasbarcle.com/toolbar-update/ This version of the toolbar updates the State Bar of Texas Professional Development Program’s digital signature and enables Microsoft Word to continue automatically running the toolbar instead of prompting the user to manually enable macros each time Word is launched. [...]

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Buy Law Office Road Map, Get Bracing for Impact Free

June 5, 2013

For a limited time, TexasBarBooks is offering a free copy of Bracing for Impact: A Practical Guide to Preparing for Disasters with the purchase of Law Office Road Map: Practical Skills for Working with Clients. In addition to saving $35 (and enjoying free shipping), this deal offers customers an opportunity to pick up knowledge in [...]

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Author Interview: Heather Kubiak on E-Discovery

May 30, 2013

TexasBarBooks presents part two of the interview with E-Discovery expert and contributing author, Heather Kubiak. In our discussion of technology and the law, Kubiak covers practical matters such as her favorite technological tools and the necessity of consulting others for the latest information. Read Part Two Learn More About this Book

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Author Interview: Heather Kubiak on E-Discovery

May 28, 2013

Technology offers opportunities for simplifying your practice, but it can also lead to complications. TexasBarBooks recently caught up with the enthusiastic and technologically fluent Heather Kubiak, one of the contributing authors of Texas Perspectives on E-Discovery, and asked her some questions regarding technology and the law.  We will run it in two parts. Read the [...]

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Navigate through the E-Discovery Minefield

May 21, 2013

A collection of articles initially presented at TexasBarCLE seminars across the state, the new Texas Perspectives on E-Discovery covers a variety of topics that lawyers need to be aware of regarding the discovery, authentication, and admissibility of electronically stored information. This books covers a variety of topics and is a steal at only $45. Learn [...]

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Technological Trends for the Legal Profession

May 16, 2013

On the verge of our May release of Texas Perspectives on E-Discovery, TexasBarBooks has got technology on the mind. As TBB prepares to make our own offering on the subject of what combinations of 1′s and 0′s can be held up in a court of law, we would also like to take a moment and offer the [...]

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In Memoriam: Daniel J. Goldberg

May 9, 2013

TexasBarBooks is honored to have crossed paths with the invaluable Texas lawyer Dan Goldberg (September 15 1944-March 7, 2013). Formerly serving as committee chair for our own Texas Collections Manual, among his many service duties, Goldberg and his warm personality brought an authoritative expertise and unique elegance to the areas of bankruptcy, collections, and creditors’ rights. [...]

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The Freedom Fighters are on a Mission to be Seen

May 1, 2013

Making good on due process in criminal proceedings is the hottest topic on the Capitol grounds this legislative session. But the circumstances surrounding Michael Morton are not the only newsmaker. A few hundred miles north in Dallas, film director Jamie Meltzer and his team of producers are currently ramping up their production of an independent [...]

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