Find Harris County courthouses, government buildings, facilities, local aid organizations, and other services with a new interactive Google map of Harris County Courts & Local Services available on the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library website. Click the screenshot to view, search, and save the Harris County Courts & Local Services Map.
Read moreCelebrate National Adoption Month in November with the Law Library
November is National Adoption Month, and the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library is celebrating with four special events, including a free Texas CLE with ethics credit, a family information session for people going through the adoption process, a traveling exhibit of photos of children available for adoption, and a resource drive for children in foster care.
Read moreNew Focused Resource Center (FRC) at the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library
The Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library now features the Focused Resource Center (FRC), a book display featuring print resources and research guides with a rotating theme to help guide your research on legal topics. The current theme is Reentry and Criminal Law Resources with a focus on civil and constitutional rights.
Read moreOctober 23rd Launches the National Celebration of Pro Bono
The American Bar Association’s (ABA) National Celebration of Pro Bono is the week of October 23-29, 2022. According to the ABA, “Pro bono work is a professional responsibility and an individual ethical commitment of each lawyer.” Every October, legal organizations across the U.S. are encouraged to participate in the National Celebration of Pro Bono week.
Read moreLatest & Greatest – Supreme Quotes: Surprising Quotations in Supreme Court Opinions
Thanks to Benjamin Franklin, we all know that only two things are certain in life: death and taxes. Now, we can also say with some degree of certainty that Benjamin Franklin is top notch as far as “quotable quotes” go. So, too are people like Humphrey Bogart, the Dalai Lama, and Mark Twain. Apparently, the United States Supreme Court has agreed in this regard and had seen fit to pepper some of its opinions with quotations from these well-known individuals and several others, too. Evan J. Roth, a federal Administrative Judge in the Denver Office of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board and self-proclaimed quotation lover, has gathered some of these quotes in a new book, Supreme Quotes: Surprising Quotations in Supreme Court Opinions.
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