Responding to Harvey
Twenty-seven trillion. That’s one estimate of how many gallons of water were dumped on Texas during Hurricane Harvey’s nearly weeklong attack on the Gulf Coast. At least 58 counties experienced...
View ArticleGrateful to Serve
I love the month of November. With it comes the smell of pumpkin pie, excitement for the holiday season, and time spent contemplating the things for which we are thankful. With two small children, my...
View ArticleServing Law Students
As law students, we all heard that our practices were unlikely to resemble a John Grisham novel or an episode of Law & Order. But these days, law schools also have to prepare would-be litigators...
View ArticleEmpowering Survivors
It’s a new year and our country is facing tough issues. It seems that every time I turn on the news, I hear another tragic story of domestic violence. Allegations of sexual harassment permeate the...
View ArticleA Guide to What You Can and Cannot Say
During my first year of law school, I lived in this old, tiny apartment near Lake Waco. The air conditioning barely worked. An entire wall in the living room was covered in mirrors, ostensibly to make...
View ArticleWomen: Our History and Our Future
My 3-year-old is full of sass and spunk and generally runs our household. What she believes, she declares as irrefutable fact, and I do not know a person stubborn enough to win an argument with her....
View ArticleOldies but Goodies...
Out with the old, in with the new.” “Moving on to bigger and better things.” “Breaking new ground.” These are all common clichés trotted out when new opportunities present themselves. Sometimes,...
View ArticleI'm So Excited
Words cannot begin to describe how excited I am about the upcoming bar year. The very thought of helping lead the Texas Young Lawyers Association and working with such amazing people leaves me feeling...
View ArticleYou Stink at Predicting Your Future Happiness (and a Lifehack for How to Do...
Aaron J. Burke, ChairSeeing the future has to be one of the top five superpowers I would choose from a Comic-Con-size list of superpowers. Rather than handwringing about whether you should be a trial...
View ArticlePodcasts for Grads at Your Fingertips
"The person who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The person who does not ask is a fool for life.” —adapted from ConfuciusIt is back-to-school time, everyone! My social media feed is filled with...
View ArticleProud to Be an American
It was about this time last year that Texas Young Lawyers Association Immediate Past President Baili Rhodes and I were invited to participate in a border tour with the American Bar Association. Baili...
View ArticleHolding Out for a Shero
I am probably part of the last generation that grew up idolizing Disney movies with princesses needing their knights in shining armor to save them and watching action movies with almost always male...
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