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TYLA
held its 75th annual meeting on June
24, 2005, at the Tower Club in Dallas.
A minor amendment to the TYLA bylaws
was passed to more efficiently accomodate
electronic ballot distribution in
TYLA's online elections. Statewide
award recipients and outstanding TYLA
committee volunteers were also honored
at the event, which concluded with
TYLA's annual changing of the guard.
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(Photo:
Incoming Chair, Bill Miller, presents
a commemorative gavel to Outgoing
Chair, Greg Jackson)
Joseph
Pritchard Inn "Midnight Mambo"
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TYLA's
Past and Future Women Presidents
at Midnight Mambo:
Melody Wilkinson, Berry Crowley,
Karin Crump, and JoAnn Merica.
(Not pictured: Lee Ann Reno.)
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Former
TYLA Presidents and Chairs of the
Board visited the TYLA post banquet
social event, which is sponsored
in part by the Joseph Pritchard
Inn. The Inn is comprised of current
and former officers and directors
of TYLA and is named in honor of
former TYLA officer Joseph M. Pritchard
who died of cancer in 1979. Pritchard
was an active civic leader and exemplified
the ideals of TYLA in both his practice
and personal life. The Inn also
sponsors an annual scholarship to
one second-year law student in Texas.
Feature
TYLA Project
South
Texas College of Law Wins Again!
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STCL
Moot Court Team with Members
of the Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals
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South
Texas College of Law
(STCL) took home top honors in
TYLA’s recent State Moot
Court Competition. The competition,
which began in 1975, is held annually
in connection with the State Bar
of Texas annual meeting. STCL
has become a state and national
powerhouse in its moot court program,
but it faced fierce competition
from St Mary’s Law
School in the final round
before claiming the state title
for the third consecutive year.
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Article
of Interest
Becoming a Rainmaker
Lawyers
often find that they are excellent
legal practioners but not necessarily
the best at promoting their business.
Successful sales and marketing techniques
does not only increase your exposure
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TYLA
is sponsoring the "Becoming a
Rainmaker" seminar at three locations
in Texas: (1) Sheraton
Dallas Brookhollow (Sept. 20), (2)
Sheraton Suite Houston (Sept. 21),
and (3) Red Lion
Hotel in Austin (Sept. 22). All three
seminars will be from 6:00 pm to 8:00
pm. This program has not
been approved for CLE credit.
(Register
Online Now)
Tips
for Young Lawyers
Survive
and Conquer Abusive Opposing Counsel
By
Pete
Marketos
Imagine: You are a young
lawyer standing before Judge White,
who mistakes you for a courthouse
runner. Your opponent—Mr.
Rambo—is 25 years your senior
with gray around his ears. Rambo
actually called you “son”
during his last speaking objection.
Your first motion to compel is
on the docket. Your innocent clients
sued Rambo’s client for fraud,
and you actually had the nerve to
serve him with discovery requests.
After three months, five follow-up
letters, countless unreturned phone
calls, and four novel combinations
of profanity, Rambo answered your
discovery requests with 167 blanket
objections and the international
sign for “get lost.”
You meticulously drafted your motion
to compel and detailed—painfully—the
injustice wrought by Rambo’s
tactics.
Amazingly, Rambo opens the hearing
on your motion by immediately grabbing
the judge’s attention. And
he is outright lying to the judge,
taking the offensive on matters
that have nothing to do with his
nonanswers to your discovery requests
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Kendyl
Hanks Darby- ABA/YLD District 26
Representative
By Kelly-Ann Clarke
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Darby |
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I
think there is a country song that
says something about “a family
tradition.” Maybe that helps
describe why Kendyl Hanks Darby
became a lawyer. She says it was
a “natural fit.”
Born
and raised in Houston, Darby followed
in the footsteps of her father,
Steve Hanks, a trial lawyer with
the firm of Helm Pletcher. Meanwhile,
her younger brother, Cullen, a wildlife
biologist, seemed to follow the
scientific path of their mother,
Marel Hanks, a pediatrician. With
her father retiring to New Mexico,
her mother practicing pediatrics
in Tyler, and her brother heading
to San Francisco to pursue an environmental
career, Darby currently makes her
home in Dallas with her husband,
McKeever, and their golden retriever,
Tater.
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TAKE
NOTE
State Bar Provides Online Options
for Your Convenience.
Texas attorneys may now pay dues,
fees, and taxes, and join sections
on MyBarPage. Just go to MyBarPage,
log in, and scroll down to "Dues
and Taxes." Voluntary pro
bono hour reporting is now an
online process as well.
Are
You Up To Speed On the New Lawyer
Advertising Rules?
Before
you place that new yellow page ad
or develop other marketing materials,
be sure to review the lawyer advertising
rules. Certain items require pre-approval
from the State Bar of Texas Advertising
Review department. For more information
call 800-566-4616 or visit www.texasbar.com/adreview.
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