RESOURCES

  • The National Bar Association was founded in 1925 and is the nation's oldest and largest national network of predominantly African-American attorneys and judges. It represents the interests of approximately 66,000 lawyers, judges, law professors, and law students. The NBA is organized around 23 substantive law sections, 10 divisions, 12 regions, and over 80 affiliate chapters throughout the United States and around the world. We are proud to be an affiliate as the Houston chapter!

    https://www.nationalbar.org/

  • The State Bar of Texas and the American Bar Association work together to provide Texas Legal Answers, a free website where people can get answers to common civil (non-criminal) legal questions.

    https://www.texasbar.com/

  • The American Bar Association is one of the world’s largest voluntary professional organizations. It is committed to doing what only a national association of attorneys can do: serving our members, improving the legal profession, eliminating bias and enhancing diversity, and advancing the rule of law throughout the United States and around the world.

    https://www.americanbar.org/

  • Established in 1958, the HLRS™ is a non-profit, community service program of the legal profession. The HLRS™ is sponsored by nine local bar associations, is certified by the State Bar of Texas, and is one of a select few programs nationwide that meets the standards of the American Bar Association.

    https://hlrs.org/

  • Casemaker® focuses on a single mission: providing attorneys with affordable access to high quality legal research. Founded in the late 1990’s when a Cincinnati attorney partnered with the Ohio State Bar Association to create a searchable database of Ohio cases for its membership. Other bar associations were impressed with the result and asked for databases of their states’ cases and codes, and a business was born.

    https://public.casemakerlegal.net/

  • Fastcase was established in 1999 to democratize the law and encourage smarter legal practice with data and visualization tools. Today, 900,000+ legal professionals have access to Fastcase.

    https://www.fastcase.com/

  • The mission of Houston Volunteer Lawyers is to provide free civil legal services to low-income people in Harris County and to promote volunteerism among lawyers.

    https://www.makejusticehappen.org/

  • The Dispute Resolution Center is sponsored by the Houston Bar Association and funded through the Harris County Courts System. The “DRC” has been helping people resolve disputes since 1980. Services are FREE to residents of Harris County, Texas.

    https://drc.harriscountytx.gov/

  • The mission of the Houston Bar Association is to serve the needs of Houston-area lawyers and enhance the legal profession through promoting professionalism, access to justice, the rule of law, equality and inclusion in the legal profession, legal education for the profession and the public, and service to our community through law-related or high-impact and high-involvement projects.

    https://www.hba.org/