Chair's Message
Christopher Piñeda
Harlingen, Texas
¡Bienvenidos! On behalf of the State Bar’s Hispanic Lawyers Section (HLS), we hope your new year is off to a great start as we approach this Spring season in Texas. In this newsletter, we recap our recent events. From networking receptions, CLEs, and mentoring initiatives for law students to events recognizing the legal trailblazers in our community, our goal is to provide value to our members.
And we’re not done: Join us at our upcoming 6th Annual Virtual LawTeria on May 7th to support civil legal aid in Texas, in partnership with the Texas Access to Justice Foundation and State Bar President Santos Vargas’ “Stand with Santos” Initiative. All donations are tax deductible and go toward helping low-income Texans. To donate today, go to https://www.teajf.org/donate/LawTeria.aspx.
We also invite you to join us at our HLS CLE Program and Awards Reception on June 11th at the State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting in Houston. We’re currently finalizing our CLE program line-up; details will be released soon; you won’t want to miss it! And if you want to recognize the hard work of an attorney or organization in our legal community for their contributions, please consider nominating them for one of our annual awards; the details are below.
Finally, if you’re not a member already, we invite you to join HLS: our annual membership fee is only $25, so we hope you’ll consider joining HLS today!
Christopher Piñeda, Chair, Hispanic Issues Section of the State Bar of Texas