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Calling for Award Nominations!

The Texas Bar Foundation is calling for entries for the Gregory S. Coleman Outstanding Appellate Lawyer Award. This award recognizes an attorney who exhibits an outstanding appellate practice and strong moral compass while maintaining a strong commitment to providing legal services for the underserved and mentoring of young lawyers.

For more information and to view the nomination form, please visit this link. The deadline for submission is January 13, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.

Free Online CLE

TexasBarCLE is offering a free 2-hour online CLE course for Appellate Section members. The class is from the 2011 Advanced Civil Appellate Practice Course and covers the following topics:

To view the class, click here and click the button to confirm that you are an Appellate Section member.

Texas Appellate Hall of Fame Announces Its Inaugural Class of Inductees!

The State Bar of Texas Appellate Section and the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society proudly announce the inaugural class of the Texas Appellate Hall of Fame for 2011:

For more about this announcement and the Hall of Fame, click here.

Announcing the winners of the 1st Annual Twitter Brief Competition!

We had a great response to our First Annual Twitter Brief Competition, attracting entries from around the country! The winning entries were "blindly" selected by a panel of judges; the judges did not know the authors of the entries. We are pleased to announce that the Grand Prize was awarded to Justice Mary Murphy of the Dallas Court of Appeals:

Appeal can’t fix judge’s 1) jail'g my lawyer 4 spurning her love & 2) den'g my recusal motion. Mdamus needed b4 trial 2morrow. R'fully, ProSe

You can read the runners-up and honorable mentions by clicking here (PowerPoint).

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all who participated! We look forward to your entries in next year's competition!