Join us for... Coffee with the Thirteenth Court of Appeals Sponsored by the Appellate Sections of the State Bar of Texas and the Hidalgo County Bar Association
Thursday, September 18, 2025 || 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Our @TexAppOrg Twitter Brief contest is back! Entries will be due by August 22, 2025. Rules below.
A reminder that we have a coffee on July 31st in San Antonio with the Fourth Court of Appeals.
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Nominations are open for about two more weeks for the Texas Appellate Hall of Fame! Nomination instructions here: #AppellateTwitter
· It’s time again for nominations to the Texas Appellate Hall of Fame! Our announcement and instructions are below! #AppellateTwitter
· It’s time again for nominations to the Texas Appellate Hall of Fame! Our announcement and instructions are below! #AppellateTwitter
Our illustrious Madame Chair @texapp presides over the Section’s first, full-length Council meeting of the Bar year!
Many thanks to @LockeLord for hosting the Section this year!
#AppellateTwitter ⚖️🏛️ – at Dallas, TX
Justice Mark Whittington advises lawyers to keep their briefs simple. Not necessarily at a 10th grade level: but your client has to understand the brief. #AppellateTwitter.
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Well-deserved congratulations to @LockeLord appellate partner & Section councilmember @MiaLorick for winning the Section’s Helen Cassidy Award for best presentation at last year’s Advanced Civil Appellate Practice course!💯
#AppellateTwitter ⚖️🎙️
Closing out @TexasBarCLE’s 2023 Advanced Civil Appellate Practice course is our professionalism update:
• 5th CoA GC & Chief Staff Attorney @cliffie_wesson
• 2d CoA Staff Attorney Patricia Askew
• 1st CoA Staff Attorney @MargotStander
#AppellateTwitter ⚖️🎙️ – at Downtown, Austin
Thrilled for our panel at @TexasBarCLE’s Advanced Civil Appellate Practice course on the future of appellate litigation:
• Thirteenth Court of Appeals @JusticeGinaBvds
• #SCOTX Clerk of the Court @blakeahawthorne
• #SCOTUS expert and #AppellateTwitter OG @CecereCarl – at Downtown, Austin
Katy Boatman presents our luncheon topic on passing the @TBLScertified civil appellate exam at @TexasBarCLE’s Advanced Civil Appellate Practice course.
#AppellateTwitter ⚖️🎙️ – at Downtown, Austin
Honored to welcome to @TexasBarCLE’s Advanced Civil Appellate Practice course our panel of former judges & justices who have returned to private practice
• Ret. WD Tex. J. Lee Yeakel
• Ret. #SCOTX JJ @EMGTX & @WainwrightDale
• Moderated by @RMFifthCircuit
#AppellateTwitter – at Downtown, Austin
Former @HBA_Appellate Chair @marktrach presenting our summary judgment update at @TexasBarCLE’s Advanced Civil Appellate Practice course.
#AppellateTwitter ⚖️🎙️ – at Downtown, Austin
Former @statebaroftexas Board Chair @VoteChadBaruch presenting on legal writing at @TexasBarCLE’s Advanced Civil Appellate Practice course.
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