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AUSTIN – How many attorneys does it take to elect a bar president? While that may sound like the opening to a bad joke, it’s actually the focus of House Bill 2393.
Currently, the number of Texas Bar members required to support a petition to run for president is 5 percent, which means a candidate must collect roughly 5,000 physical signatures from his or her fellow attorneys to appear on the ballot.
Authored by state Rep. Yvonne Davis, HB 2393 would reduce that number to 500 and allow for electronic signatures on petitions – opening the field for more candidates, especially minorities, to run.
The Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Committee heard the bill last Wednesday.
Proposal for mandatory implicit bias training is rejected by Texas bar committee
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A State Bar of Texas committee has unanimously voted against a proposal to make implicit bias training mandatory for the state’s lawyers.
The bar’s minimum continuing legal education committee favored voluntary over mandatory training, Law.com reports here and here. The group considered the issue as it discussed making the training a voluntary way to earn credit for ethics continuing legal education.
John Boyce, the committee chairman, told the bar’s board of directors Friday that the next step is for the committee to draft regulations for the CLE, “so we don’t open the door to a whole kitchen sink of programs.” The board of directors has not yet voted on the proposal.