September 2025

The Austin Bar invites you to serve on one or more of our committees for the 2025-26 bar year! Serving on a committee is a great way to make connections in the legal community, develop new skills to apply to your practice, and make a lasting difference in people’s lives. You can join any of the following committees at no charge.

At the annual State Bar of Texas Meeting in San Antonio in June, several Austin attorneys were honored for their contributions to the legal profession. 

The Austin Bar Foundation has awarded $32,000 in its 2025 grant cycle. 

Travis County Court Administrator Warren Vavra has announced he will retire in early 2026.

For over 35 years, beginning in 1961, ABC Sports broadcast a compendium of live and taped sporting events from all over the world called Wide World of Sports. It was an essential broadcast for all sporting enthusiasts featuring everything from popular track and field events, skiing championships, to lesser-known events like drag-racing and rodeo, and even offbeat inclusions like rattlesnake hunts.

In this article, I propose a useful way for the legal profession to think about AI. I describe how the technology works and how lawyers currently tend to classify material, before arguing that AI should be treated as a “tertiary” source of information. 

The following is a summary of selected criminal opinions issued by the Third Court of Appeals from February 2025. The summary is an overview; please review the entire opinions. The subsequent history is current as of August 5, 2025.

The following are summaries of selected civil opinions issued by the Third Court of Appeals during June and July 2025. The summaries are an overview; please review the entire opinion. Subsequent histories are current as of August 12, 2025. 

The following are summaries of selected civil opinions issued by the Fifth Circuit in May 2025. The summaries are overviews of particular aspects of the opinions; please review the entire opinions.

This is my first official article as president of the Austin Young Lawyers Association (AYLA). I have been a member of AYLA since before law school graduation, and I have had the opportunity to meet and work with many young attorneys over the years.