Q&A: Juli Greenberg of General Motors
Juli Greenberg visited with Texas Lawbook pro bono, public service and diversity and inclusion reporter Natalie Posgate about the biggest challenges facing corporate legal departments and law firms regarding diversity, which diversity programs she thinks are effective and the significance of the pipeline.
A Word with Human Trafficking Institute’s Victor Boutros
Victor Boutros knew he wanted to devote his legal career to combatting human trafficking before he even got to law school. Now more than two decades later, after working in private practice, serving as a federal prosecutor and writing a book, Boutros leads the Human Trafficking Institute, which partners with foreign governments to help them implement trafficking enforcement systems.
The Texas Lawbook recently sat down with Boutros and will cover a CLE later today in Dallas about human trafficking trends and updates and how lawyers can get involved. More details, including how to register, in this article.
P.S. — Casino Nights, Running Tights, Calling All Trivia Brights
A fun run in Houston that benefits people with intellectual disabilities. A CLE on human trafficking. A casino night that benefits abused and neglected children. A trivia night that benefits legal aid. Natalie Posgate details them all in this week’s P.S.
P.S. — 5Ks, Housebuilding & Fair Debt Collection
A grant that will help consumer debt defendants in Texas. A 5K that helps women struggling with substance abuse. A new board appointment for the Austin Habitat for Humanity. A major Texas corporation recognizes a law firm for it diversity efforts. All in this week’s P.S. Firms featured this week include Gibson Dunn and Winstead.
‘All People Have Significance’
On the first page of the opening chapter in my book Contempt of Court: A Turn of the Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism, there is this single sentence: “Ed Johnson was not a significant man, except in the sense that all people have significance.”
Johnson was a Black man who couldn’t read or write, worked two jobs to survive in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1906 who was falsely arrested for a rape he did not commit, railroaded through the criminal justice system and sentence to death – all in three weeks.
The Texas Lawbook this year created a full-time writer position to do nothing but cover pro bono and public service by lawyers in Texas. Natalie Posgate writes about corporate lawyers tackling big issues for military veterans, the homeless and those trapped in sex trafficking. She also writes about how a Texas lawyer can in just four hours dramatically change a single mom’s life for the better.
Natalie Posgate’s columns show lawyers that “all people have significance.”
P.S. — Legal Aid Grants in TX, Happy Holidays, Causes ‘For the Kids’
This week’s P.S. highlights one Houston lawyers organization’s Adopt-an-Angel program, grant money awarded to two Texas legal aid organizations and a firm celebrating an exciting pro bono milestone.
P.S. — Legal Aid Grants in TX, Happy Holidays, Causes ‘For the Kids’
This week’s P.S. highlights one Houston lawyers organization’s Adopt-an-Angel program, grant money awarded to two Texas legal aid organizations and a firm celebrating an exciting pro bono milestone.
P.S. — More Holiday Giving, Access to Justice & Freedom of Speech
This week’s P.S. features holiday giving to families in need by Dallas and Houston lawyers at Stinson and Hogan Lovells, a special holiday event for fallen veterans, a Jackson Walker lawyer who has been appointed as chairman of the board to a freedom of speech/information nonprofit and the very first access to justice summit that took place in Houston, where two local reporters were recognized.
P.S. — Two Galas, Two Donation Drives, One Huge Fundraiser
In this week’s P.S., we have the details of an inaugural ball put on by the Dallas LGBT Bar Association, updates on the Dallas Bar Association’s Equal Access to Justice Campaign and a reminder of a food drive currently being commissioned for one of Dallas’ poorest areas.
In-House & Outside Lawyers Talk Need, Best Practices at Pro Bono Summit
A group of high-ranking in-house counsel and private practice pro bono specialists swapped stories and methods for how they’ve been able to achieve pro bono engagement and keep their lawyers incentivized to give back through pro bono. Plus, the in-house lawyers discussed their positions on partnering with law firms on pro bono projects.