State Bar of Texas

The State Bar of Texas will be closed on Thursday, November 28 and Friday, November 29, in observance of Thanksgiving. We will reopen on Monday, December 2.

“A call from Governor Perry’s office set me on a course that I could not have imagined 23 years ago. He asked me to interview for a vacancy on this very court. And since the day the governor appointed me, I am asked a recurring question—did you ever think that one day you would be a justice, let alone chief justice, of the Supreme Court of Texas? The answer? No, I didn’t. But as I reflect on that day, there were signs.” Former Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson reflected on the course of his career during a portrait unveiling on September 6 by the Supreme Court of Texas. Read his remarks in the November issue of the Texas Bar Journal. https://lnkd.in/gMjsK2gD

December 2024 Texas Bar Journal cover reveal! This issue looks back on the caselaw developments of 2024 and highlights the State Bar’s expanded legal research member benefit—vLex Fastcase. Look for the online edition at texasbar.com/tbj on December 2.

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“What Passman and Jones did was zealously look after the interests of their client in the face of tremendous pressure, but they also did so in a highly intelligent and very astute manner. They make me proud to be called a lawyer.” In the November issue of the Texas Bar Journal, attorney Jerry Alexander shares the story of Passman & Jones and the Zapruder film. Read the story here: https://lnkd.in/gSYZNuup #LegalReads

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In the Legal Tech column of the November issue of the Texas Bar Journal, Pierre Grosdidier looks at the constitutionality of geofence warrants. “A geofence warrant seeks cellphone location history collected and stored by Google at the phone user’s election. The third-party doctrine holds that a person enjoys no Fourth Amendment protection in information that the person knowingly and voluntarily conveys to a third-party, because the person runs the chance that the latter would communicate it to authorities.” Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gP4j4YYn #Warrants #Geofencing #LegalReads

The Supreme Court of Texas issued orders today, including two per curiam opinions. Find summaries of the decided cases here: https://lnkd.in/g_PxrCBn Find the full orders here: https://lnkd.in/gB33s2FW #appeals #appellatelinkedin

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