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Mark Your Calendar! The 11th Annual Champions of Justice Gala Benefiting Veterans is Wednesday, April 29, 2020
The 11th Annual Champions of Justice Gala Benefiting Veterans will be held Wednesday, April 29, 2020 as a virtual event broadcast from Austin, TX. Please check back on our event page for updated information and an updated list of our current sponsors for 2020. More »
Texas Transfer Toolkit will make asset transfer process easier for Texans
The Texas Access to Justice Commission (TAJC) has launched a digital resource called the Texas Transfer Toolkit to help Texans with limited means transfer their home, car, or money in a bank account to a beneficiary upon their death. More »
2019 Champions of Justice Gala Benefiting Veterans Raises $455,050
The Texas Access to Justice Commission with its co-sponsor, the State Bar of Texas, honored veterans throughout the state at the Champions of Justice Gala Benefiting Veterans last night at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in Austin. More than $455,050 was raised to help provide civil legal services to low-income Texas veterans. More »
Archive: The Twilight Zone by Nathan L. Hecht
Study after study, around the country, concludes that legal aid, directly and indirectly, benefits economies. Legal aid is good for businesses and taxpayers. Legal-aid providers offer cases and training to lawyers willing to work pro bono who have no other way of contacting poor clients needing help, thus leveraging legal-aid funding to provide more representation. Legal aid is efficient; the public gets far more than its money’s worth. And legal aid makes the promises of the American justice system real when they would otherwise be a farce. In that way, legal aid is critical to the integrity of the rule of law. More »
2018 Awards Spotlight Success at Baylor Law School and SMU’s Dedman School of Law
The TAJC has announced the 2018 Law Student Pro Bono Award winner is Tychanika Kimbrough of Baylor Law School. The 2018 Law School Commitment to Service Award goes to SMU’s Dedman School of Law. More »
Jeff Oldham appointed to the Texas Access to Justice Commission
Governor Abbott appoints Jeffrey L. "Jeff" Oldham as liaison to the Texas Access to Justice Commission More »
Commission Honors Houston Attorney Gwendolyn Dawson with the Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Award
Justice Eva Guzman, Texas Supreme Court liaison to the Texas Access to Justice Commission, presented Gwendolyn Dawson with the TAJC Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Award last week during the Business Law and Corporate Counsel CLE and Luncheon, which was held in conjunction with the State Bar of Texas’ Annual Meeting. More »
