Collin County Young Lawyers Association Welcomes You!
Law School Liaison Program
The student liaison, in conjunction with their school's career services office, is tasked with keeping the law students at his or her school apprised of important events and news pertaining to CCYLA and the Collin County legal community.
CCYLA Judicial Internship Program
CCYLA invites first and second year law students from Baylor, Oklahoma University, SMU, Texas A & M, Texas Tech, and UNT to apply for judicial internships with the Collin County Court and District Court Judges in McKinney, Texas.
Legal Aid Pro Bono Clinic
Attorneys, paralegals, and law students are needed to help staff the monthly LANWT legal aid clinics in Collin County. Whether you're new to the legal field or have been practicing for years, all volunteers are needed and greatly appreciated.
PAST EVENTS
CCYLA
Upcoming Events
SAVE THE DATE...
September 14, 2017 – CCYLA Board Meeting
October 26, 2017 – Top Golf Halloween Party
November 6, 2017 – November Social @ Bar Louie Allen
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NEWS & HEADLINES
- State Bar Board of Directors approves candidates for president-elect
- State Bar, Lone Star Legal Aid promote disaster legal hotline for those affected by Tropical Storm Imelda
- Michael Hofrichter named executive director of Houston Volunteer Lawyers
- David Insley awarded first Randall Chapman Fellowship
- Attorneys read at 103 schools for Constitution Day
- State Bar board to meet Sept. 20 in Corpus Christi
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch attends Texas Supreme Court justice’s investiture ceremony
- AWA Foundation seeks nominations for Premier Women in the Law and Rising Star awards
- Jane Bland sworn in to the Texas Supreme Court
- Legislative aides to receive James Madison Award for strengthening Texas Public Information Act
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- In Memoriam – August 2019
- Texas Supreme Court Clerk Blake Hawthorne receives award
- The State Bar of Texas Appellate Section and the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society celebrated its Texas Appellate Hall of Fame 2019 inductees during an Advanced Civil Appellate Seminar in Austin on September 5. The award recognizes judges, attorneys, and court personnel who have made significant contributions to appellate law and who are no longer living. The 2019 inductees: Thomas J. Rusk—The third chief justice of Texas, Thomas Rusk was actually the first to preside over a Supreme Court session and authored its first opinion in 1840. Prior to his life on the bench, Rusk was a signatory to the Texas Declaration of Independence and was also the Texas Republic’s war secretary. He oversaw the burial of Col. James Fannin, who, along with his men, was executed at Goliad under orders from President Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. Rusk led the final charge on Santa Anna at San Jacinto. Hortense Sparks Ward—When Hortense Ward passed the Texas bar exam in 1910—the first woman to do so—she set off a string of firsts. Among those milestones: the first female Texan to be licensed to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court; special chief justice of the temporary all-woman Texas Supreme Court (the first state high court of its kind in the country) of January 1925 in a case involving a trustee of a fraternal order of which the all-male Texas Supreme Court were members; and the country’s first female chief justice after being appointed to the latter by Gov. Pat Neff. The opinion issued (in a cause) has been cited numerous times by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and Texas appellate courts. John L. Hill Jr.—As the attorney general of Texas, John Hill argued before the U.S. Supreme Court five times. He served as the Texas Supreme Court chief justice from 1984 until 1988 when he resigned to lead an effort to abolish the popular election of judges in the state. Hill, who also served as the Texas secretary of state, is the only person to have held all three titles. In 1997, he received a lifetime achievement award from his alma mater, the University of Texas School of Law. In 2004, UT Law established in his honor the John L. Hill Trial Advocacy Center. Austin McCloud—Austin McCloud first joined the Texas judiciary when he was appointed to the 32nd District Court in Sweetwater. In 1970, he was elected chief justice of the 11th Court of Appeals in Eastland. During his time there, McCloud served as president of both the Council of Chief Judges of Courts of Appeals of the United States and the Council of Chief Justices of Texas Courts of Appeals. He retired after 24 years. In 1994, McCloud was named Outstanding Jurist of Texas.
- Dallas Bar dedicates 29th Habitat house