The General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section
of the State Bar of Texas
Our section devotes its energies primarily to the interests of lawyers who practice as solos and in small firms. We have been active for more than 40 years. Our section publishes a Digest and co-sponsors an annual Institute for general practitioners as well as other CLE programs. Our section has played a leadership role in several State Bar initiatives. Members of our Council are active on State Bar Committees, Task Forces, and the State Bar Board of Directors. We are active and serious advocates of policies and practices important to small firms, and we report on issues important to all lawyers.
We show up. Join us.
Go to this page, follow the instructions and links and sign up online. Or
download this form from the State Bar and send it in.
The General
Practice Digest
Our 32nd year to cover the essentials of 16 areas of law.
Document
Bank
Give some help; get some help.
Issues
Policies and politics that affect the small firm.
Calendar
Important dates for the section and the Bar.
Council
Members of the Section Council are listed here. Please contact us and let us know your
concerns.
Contacts
e-mail the Chair
e-mail the Webmaster
If you are a member you you may read it online or download a copy. Click the link above or to the right and go to the sign-in page.
June 20-21 at the Anatole in Dallas. There will be lots of CLE, including free GPSolo CLE to our members.
... your client was not wearing a seatbelt and was injured in an accident and the other side offered evidence about the seatbelt which the court allowed over your objection. Can you overturn this on appeal?
... your client is suited by a party who continually files amendments and new claims in a lawsuit which resolves in your client's favor by summary judgment. You get an award for your client as sanctions for the filing of frivolous claims and there is an appeal. What is the standard of review?
... your client, the bank, wants you to send a foreclosure notice to homeowner. Do you consider yourself a "debt collector"?
... your client, a Texas resident, is married to a British citizen and is the parent of a child. The three of them regularly travel between England and the United States. On the last trip your client was denied entry to England and the High Court of Justice in London denied your clients application for return of the baby. Does he have a chance of prevailing in a Texas court?
The answers are in the Digest.
For more tips remember to go to our Practice Tips page.
Distribution of our Digest went online in 2005. Since that time we have notified our members of a new publication by email to Section members. We have not had a spam complaint about this until this year. This year a handful of our members have registered spam complaints with their ISP's on account of our notice about the new Digest being ready. Please tell our webmaster before you complain to your ISP, if you do not want notices from us. We'll be glad to take you off the notice list. If you register a spam complaint before you tell the webmaster you jeopardize the right of the other members of the Section to receive notice and you will be removed from the website database.
We have implemented a document bank. If you have a pleading, brief, form or checklist that you would like to share with the other members of the GPSolo Section, post it here.
Need a guide on managing your trust account. You'll find one here.
If you want to restrict public access to your private information, you need to notify the State Bar. The Government Code Section 552.1176 allows us restrict public access to such information as home address, home telephone number, electronic email address, social security number, and date of birth, but you have to notify the Bar. The easy way is to click on this link to the My Bar Page on the State Bar website, enter your bar card and password, click to update your profile, go to the bottom of the page and you will see "Public Access to Your Personal Information" where there is a check box.