The Austin Bar Association is proud to recognize our 2025 Austin Bar 100 Club members!
Austin Bar Honored with Access to Justice Award
At the 2025 Local Bar Leaders Conference, sponsored by the State Bar of Texas, the Austin Bar Association was awarded the Deborah G. Hankinson Access to Justice Award for Division III.
Join an Austin Bar Association Committee
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.
Austin Bar Members Honored at State Bar Annual Meeting
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.
Austin Bar Foundation Awards $32,000 in Grants
The Austin Bar Foundation has awarded $32,000 in its 2025 grant cycle.
Long-Time Court Administrator Vavra Announces Retirement
Travis County Court Administrator Warren Vavra has announced he will retire in early 2026.
Entre Nous: Mentoring for the New Age
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.
AI as a Tertiary Source
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.
July 2025 District & County Court Jury Trial Verdicts
Travis County district and county jury trial verdicts for July 2025.
Third Court of Appeals Criminal Update September 2025
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.