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ELECTION EDITION
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2016 Election:
L aw y er R eferr a l S ervice
SABA President Marty Truss honored LRS Director Sylvia Hernandez (left) and Assistant Melinda Garza (right) for their loyal
service to SABA with awards presented at the May 26, 2016 luncheon. This year marks Hernandez’s 40th work anniversary and
Garza’s 15th.
SABA launches project for integrated database and new website
The San Antonio Bar Association
(SABA) broke virtual ground in June
2016 on Raising the Bar, a major technology initiative that will streamline
the customer service experience for
SABA’s members and the general public. Raising the Bar, which will continue
into fall, will bring SABA systems upto-date with technological advances
and increase the ease of access to community information, membership benefits and the local legal directory.
SABA’s Lawyer Referral Service
(LRS) is one of the main beneficiaries of
Raising the Bar. The LRS is a community and consumer protection service
that provides quality attorney referrals.
It’s been more than 15 years since the
LRS has upgraded its attorney-client
database. The improvements to the LRS
system will allow staff to process referrals and account updates rapidly, thus
increasing the volume of clients LRS
can serve.
The project as a whole will consolidate LRS processes with other SABA
and SABA-related systems, including
membership and the San Antonio Bar
Foundation. An integrated system will
greatly improve overall Bar customer
service and unify member communications. Raising the Bar also includes the
development of a new SABA website
that will bring member benefits and
community services to the forefront on
an easy-to-navigate web plane with mobile device optimization.
An $11,750 grant from the Texas
Bar Foundation helped fund the project. Since its inception in 1965, the Texas
Bar Foundation has awarded more than
$16 million in grants to law-related programs. Supported by members of the
State Bar of Texas, the Texas Bar Foundation is the nation’s largest charitably
funded bar foundation.
Get to know President-Elect
Candidate Beth Watkins and
the 2016-2017 officer slate
Meet the members on the 2016-2017
officer slate! SABA members will elect a
President-Elect (2017-2018), Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. Members
will also elect four directors to two-year
terms (2016-2018). Candidate biographies are following and also available
online. Electronic voting began June 16
and runs until June 28. For those who
do not vote online, paper ballots will be
mailed immediately following the close
of online voting. Election results will be
announced at SABA’s Annual Meeting,
July 28, 2016 at the Plaza Club.
2016-2017 Election Candidates:
President-Elect
Beth Watkins
Vice President
Santos Vargas
Secretary
Tom Crosley
John Ritenour, Jr.
Treasurer
David Evans
Directors
Jason Bashara
Catherine Casiano
Dawn Finlayson
Daryl Harris
Pedro Hernandez, Jr.
Derek Hilley
Richard Price
Christine Reinhard
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Don’t you wish you knew someone who regularly referred
well over half a million dollars in fee-generating legal work
per year? Don’t you wish your bar association offered you
something useful to your day-to-day practice of law? Well,
we do! In addition to the dozens of outstanding CLE opportunities, Brown Bag lunches, award-winning San Antonio
Lawyer magazine, monthly Subpoena, Law Week and Peacemakers, monthly networking CLE luncheons, CJP volunteer opportunities, the Family Fun Day and Chili Cook-off
and much more, a principal but often overlooked benefit of
SABA membership is the opportunity to participate in our
Lawyer Referral Service (LRS), which is undergoing some
exciting new changes this summer.
SABA has recently made a major investment in software
upgrades, part of our Raising the Bar initiative (see P. 1), to
improve our LRS client intake and matter tracking processes,
which will include automatic “instant email” referrals. We
expect these upgrades to be implemented in the coming
months, and, effective June 2016, you must be a member of
SABA to participate in the LRS program. If you haven’t previously been a member of LRS, there’s no better time than
now.
The Lawyer Referral Service is a valuable member benefit, but it is first and foremost a community and consumer protection service for
Bexar and surrounding
counties. LRS is a public service, providing
regular citizens access
to a qualified lawyer.
It is also a service to
our member attorneys to match them
with
pre-screened
clients.
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We are fortunate to have 40 years of consistent leadership from Sylvia Hernandez, Director of LRS. Sylvia manages the day-to-day operations, along with Melinda Garza
(who has been with SABA 15 years). They are responsible for
qualifying and growing the attorney pool and processing the
thousands of client matches per year.
Clients who contact LRS for a referral are informed LRS
attorneys are not free. LRS staff screen the calls; then, clients
are referred to LRS attorney members on a rotating basis according to the following criteria: area of law, geographical
location and language preference. LRS attorneys are not obligated to accept any case referred to them by the service. LRS
averages approximately 50 referrals per day.
If you are a member of SABA, in good standing with the
State Bar of Texas and can provide proof of insurance, you
are eligible for membership in SABA’s LRS program. In the
2015-16 bar year alone, LRS made thousands of referrals to
local lawyers that resulted in well over half a million dollars
in earned fees. LRS refers cases in all fields of law: administrative, bankruptcy, civil rights, collections, commercial,
corporation, criminal, deceptive trade practice/consumer,
estate/probate, entertainment, family, immigration, international, labor, landlord/tenant, malpractice, military, oil and
gas, patents and copyrights, personal injury, real estate, tax,
internet/computer, environmental, elder and securities.
To join LRS, you will need to submit an application satisfying the aforementioned requirements and pay LRS membership fees ($200 annually with a 10% fee from any fees you
receive from an LRS referred case).
For more information or to join LRS, contact Sylvia Hernandez at (210) 227-8822 or (210) 227-1853.
James M. “Marty” Truss
“If you haven’t previously been a member of LRS, there’s no
better time than now.”
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OFFICERS
James M. “Marty” Truss
President
Bobby Barrera
President-Elect
Beth Watkins
Vice President
Santos Vargas
Secretary
Tom Crosley
Treasurer
DIRECTORS
David Evans
Dawn Finlayson
Hon. Rebeca C. Martinez
Hon. Jefferson Moore
Hon. Richard Price
Christine Reinhard
Mark Sessions
Ty Sheehan
DWI REPRESENTATION
ROBERT A. PRICE IV
Board Certified in Criminal Law Since 1979
Past President, San Antonio Bar Association
Past Director, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Assoc.
LOUIS D. MARTINEZ
Former Associate Municipal Judge
Former Criminal Magistrate
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Thomas g. Keyser
Immediate-Past President
D. Larkin Chenault
Executive Director
Jimmy Allison
Director Emeritus
Veronica Leal Vasquez
President
Mexican American Bar Assoc.
Andrew Froelich
President
San Antonio Young Lawyers Assoc.
Katherine Noll
President
Bexar County Women’s Bar Assoc.
Stephanie Boyd
President
San Antonio Black Lawyers Assoc.
Andrew L. Kerr
Hon. Rebecca Simmons
Directors
State Bar of Texas
SABA Appellate Section awards scholarship
The San Antonio Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Section (APS)
is pleased to announce the APS has
awarded Alicia Grant a $500 gift, sponsored by the section and funded by a
private donor, to recognize her accomplishments and her interest in appellate
law.
Grant, a third-year law student at
St. Mary’s University School of Law,
is a senior associate editor for Volume
47 of the St. Mary’s Law Journal and has
served as a judicial intern at the Fourth
Court of Appeals and at the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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2016 ELECTION SPECIAL
Online voting is open
June 16 through June 28
at www.sabar.org
under the Member
Resources tab
President-Elect
Beth Watkins
Beth Watkins is an
appellate attorney in
private practice. In addition to her full-time
practice, she has taught
a class of Legal Research and Writing at
St. Mary’s University School of Law for
the past ten years.
Watkins received her undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1999 and her
law degree from St. Mary’s University
School of Law in 2002. Before starting
her own law firm, she worked for the
Fourth Court of Appeals as a Briefing
Attorney for Justice Catherine Stone.
Watkins became Board Certified in
Civil Appellate Law in 2008.
Watkins currently serves as SABA
Vice President and has also served as
a SABA Director (2008-12), Treasurer
(2013-14) and Secretary (2014-15). She
has held a number of positions, including Chair, of the SABA Appellate Practice Section from 2003 to the present.
Watkins has served on the Board of
Directors for the St. Mary’s University
Law Alumni Association since 2003.
Watkins volunteers for and chairs numerous committees in the legal community.
She is a member of the Texas Trial
Lawyers Associations (TTLA) and the
San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association
(SATLA) and served in various capacities on SATLA’s Board of Directors and
Executive Committee since 2008. She is
a Fellow of the San Antonio Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation. Watkins is currently working on a program
to help indigent litigants navigate their
way through the appellate process.
Watkins also gives back to her
neighborhood by serving on the board
of directors of her neighborhood association. She was President of that neighborhood association in 2006-07.
Watkins was named the Outstanding Young Lawyer of San Antonio by
the San Antonio Young Lawyers Association in 2007. She has also been recognized as one of San Antonio’s Best Appellate Lawyers by S.A. Scene Magazine
and a Texas Monthly Rising Star and Super Lawyer in Appellate Law.
In law school, Watkins competed
on St. Mary’s Moot Court Team. In 2002,
she won the ABA Moot Court National
Championship and was named the best
speaker in the nation.
Watkins enjoys traveling and
spending time with her niece and nephews. She has two labs and owns a historic home that breaks every time she
saves a little bit of money.
Vice President
Santos Vargas
Santos Vargas is a
partner at Davis & Santos, P.C., where he runs
a practice focused on
complex business litigation matters. Vargas
currently serves as the
Secretary of the San Antonio Bar Association and has previously served as
SABA Treasurer and SABA Director.
Vargas was also President of the
San Antonio Young Lawyers Association, an organization in which he held
positions as Director, Secretary, Vice
President, President-Elect, President
and Immediate-Past President.
Vargas currently serves as a member of the State Bar of Texas Local Bar
Services Committee, which organizes
the annual Texas Bar Leaders Conference and provides support to local bar
associations throughout the State of
Texas. In addition, Vargas has served as
a member of the State Bar of Texas’ Annual Meeting Committee.
Vargas is a graduate of Class 34 of
Leadership San Antonio, which is cosponsored by the Greater San Antonio
Chamber of Commerce and the San
Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Vargas is also a graduate of the
Alex Briseño Leadership Development
Program Class of 2005, sponsored by
the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of
Commerce. Vargas was also a founding
member of VISION-San Antonio and
served on their board from 2005-09.
Vargas started his career at Cox
Smith Matthews and ran his own practice for four years prior to joining Davis & Santos. Vargas received his bachelor’s degree in political science from St.
Mary’s University in 1999 and received
his law degree from Syracuse University College of Law in 2004.
Vargas plans to draw upon his
extensive leadership experience with
SABA and other organizations to diligently and faithfully carry out the duties of SABA Vice President.
Outside of the practice of law, Vargas enjoys spending time with his wife,
Patricia, and their two children Laura
(6) and Santos (4). Vargas also enjoys
cooking and participating in outdoor
activities.
Secretary (choose one)
Candidate A:
Tom Crosley
Tom Crosley is the
current SABA Treasurer
and previously served
as a Director for four
years. He received his
bachelor’s degree from
the University of Texas
in 1988 and his law degree from the
University of Houston in 1992. He was
admitted to the Texas Bar in 1992 and is
also admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern,
Eastern and Western Districts of Texas,
as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Fifth Circuit.
Prior to forming the Crosley Law
Firm, P.C. in 2005, he was a partner
with Branton & Hall, P.C. in San Antonio, where he worked for ten years.
He began his legal career in Houston
as an associate at Brown McCarroll,
LLP for four years. Crosley is AV-rated
by Martindale-Hubbell, Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the
Texas Board of Legal Specialization and
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Board Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a Past President of the San
Antonio Trial Lawyers Association.
From 2001 to 2005, he served under appointment by the Bexar County
Commissioners Court to the Advisory
Board for the Bexar County Dispute
Resolution Center. He has been an active member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association (Director, 2005-present; Advocates Director, 1999-2001), the
San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association
(Director, 2000-01; President, 2002), the
American Board of Trial Advocates
(inducted 2004; Secretary, 2014; Treasurer, 2015; Vice President, 2016), the
American Bar Association, the Texas
Young Lawyers Association (Director,
1997-2001), the San Antonio Bar Association (Director, 2004-06, 2013-15), the
San Antonio Young Lawyers Association (Director, 1997-2001; Vice President,
2000) and the American Inns of Court.
Crosley is a Fellow of the Texas Bar
Foundation and the San Antonio Bar
Foundation and a member of the State
Bar College. In 2001, he received a SABA
President’s Award for pro bono service.
Crosley enjoys an active trial practice, having tried 50 civil cases as lead
counsel. He is a frequent author and
speaker at legal seminars on topics related to personal injury trial law. He
has been selected as a Texas Super Lawyer each year since 2004 by Thomson
Reuters as published in Texas Monthly.
Three times in the past decade, he has
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Crosley’s docket of cases includes
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Crosley is married to Karen, and they
have four children.
Candidate B:
John Ritenour, Jr.
John “Bud” Ritenour, Jr. is a solo attorney
practicing criminal defense in trial, appellate
and
post-conviction
matters in both State
and Federal Court. He
also practices state parole release and
revocation. He is Board Certified in
Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and a Fellow Member
of the College of the State Bar of Texas.
He is also admitted to practice in the
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Fifth Circuit and the Supreme
Court of the United States.
In 2013, Ritenour and co-counsel
Warren Wolf won a death-penalty habeas corpus case, Trevino v. Thaler, in the
U.S. Supreme Court, argued by Wolf.
That same year they were recognized
as co-recipients of both the TCDLA Percy Foreman Lawyer of the Year award
and the SACDLA Kim Young Defender
of the Year award. Ritenour has been
recognized several times as one of the
top criminal defense lawyers in San
Antonio (“as selected by their peers”)
by Scene S.A. Magazine. He is a member of the American Bar Association,
the National Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers, the Texas Criminal
Defense Lawyers Association, the San
Antonio Criminal Defense Lawyers
Association (Past President, current
Webmaster) and the San Antonio Bar
Association. Ritenour currently serves
as Chair of the Bexar County Public Defender Oversight Board and co-chairs
the SABA Criminal Law and Procedure
Committee with Judge Ron Rangel.
Ritenour spent 27 years on active
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duty with the U.S. Air Force, primarily
as a communications-computer officer,
retiring as a Colonel in 1992. His duty
assignments included Vietnam, Greece,
England, Saudi Arabia and seven states.
He and his wife moved 21 times in
those 27 years. After retiring from the
Air Force, Ritenour attended St. Mary’s
University School of Law, graduating
in 1995. He has a bachelor’s degree in
mathematics from Ohio State University and a master’s in computing sciences
degree from Texas A&M University.
Ritenour is originally from Ohio,
but was enlightened when he married the former Carolyn Thompson
of Devine, Texas. They have two children, Steven in League City and Debbie in Austin, and two grandchildren,
Josie and Callum. They currently live in
Helotes, Texas, and enjoy a good mystery, keeping up with friends around
the world and spoiling grandchildren.
Treasurer
David Evans
Dave Evans is a sole
practitioner, practicing
primarily employment
and commercial law.
He grew up in San Antonio, graduating from
Jefferson High School
the same year Lenny Kravitz’s “Are You
Gonna Go My Way?” hit the Billboard
100. He left for college in Louisiana,
where he met the wonderful woman he
would eventually marry, Katie Cherie.
After a year doing nothing particularly
noteworthy with his business degree,
he started law school at the University
of Texas, graduating in 2001 and taking
a job at Akin Gump’s San Antonio office, where he cut his teeth on employment law.
He then worked at Langley &
Banack for a dozen years before going
out on his own in February 2016. He
has been an officer for the San Antonio
Young Lawyers Association, the San
Antonio Bar Foundation and presently
serves as a SABA Director. He and Katie enjoy spending time with their children, Sophia and Shepherd.
Directors (choose four)
Candidate A:
Jason Bashara
Jason S. Bashara
was born and raised in
San Antonio where he
graduated from high
school from the Texas Military Institute.
Thereafter, Bashara obtained his bachelor’s degree from Texas Christian University. He graduated from St. Mary’s
School of Law and was licensed by the
State Bar of Texas in May 2002.
Bashara worked for Plunkett & Gibson, Inc., where his primary focus was
products liability, medical malpractice
defense and insurance defense. In 2004,
he shifted his practice to include family
law. Bashara opened the Law Office of
Jason S. Bashara in 2007 in order to focus on creating a quality, boutique firm
focusing on family law and litigation
that derives from family law disputes
such as judgment collections.
Bashara became Board Certified in
Family Law in 2012 and is currently the
President of the San Antonio Family
Law Association. He has been recog-
nized by Texas Monthly as either a Rising Star or Super Lawyer for 2005-09
and 2011-16 (doesn’t know what happened in 2010!). Bashara was named as
one of the Top 30 Family Lawyers in San
Antonio by S.A. Scene Magazine for 2016.
Throughout the years, Bashara has
volunteered in the “Just Take One”
Community Justice Program as well as
the VA program. Both he and his wife,
Elizabeth, are very involved in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
(JDRF) and have supported the Center
for Family Relations. Bashara and Elizabeth are the parents of Alexandria (7)
and Samuel (10).
Candidate B:
Catherine Casiano
Catherine “Cathy”
Casiano is the Director
of Recruitment in the
Office of Law Student
Recruitment and Admissions at St. Mary’s
University School of
Law where she is responsible for nationwide outreach and recruitment of
prospective law students, diversity programming and coordination of pre-law
events. Additionally, Casiano is a codirector of the St. Mary’s Undergraduate Moot Court Competition and, last
summer, created St. Mary’s Leadership
in Law Summer Camps, which provide
high school students a week-long opportunity to learn from and interact
with professionals in the legal community.
Casiano is a graduate of St. Mary’s
University School of Law, Boston College and Incarnate Word High School.
Prior to working at the law school, she
was the staff attorney at the Bexar County Domestic Relations Office, where she
assisted indigent non-custodial parents
with the enforcement of their visitation
rights and also maintained a solo practice handling criminal and pro bono immigration cases.
Casiano is a Past President of the
St. Mary’s Hispanic Law Alumni Association and currently serves as a
board member of the St. Mary’s Law
Alumni Association, the St. Mary’s Hispanic Law Alumni Association and the
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Mexican American Bar Association
where she serves as the Chair of the
Scholarship Committee. As a member
of SABA, Casiano was involved in the
Mentoring Committee and continues to
serve as a mentor to high school, college
and law students. She was honored as
the 2016 Sister Grace Walle Mentor of
the Year by the Hispanic Law Students
Association of St. Mary’s University
School of Law.
Casiano is an active member of
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, was the
Flower Chair for this year’s St. George
Episcopal School Second Grade Float
and created a YouTube video showing
parents how to make paper flowers. Casiano enjoys baking, planning parties
and spending time with her husband,
fellow attorney Jason Cruz, and their
two kids, Diego and Paloma.
Candidate C:
Dawn Finlayson
Dawn Bruner Finlayson practices employment law and is
a partner at Barton,
East & Caldwell, PLLC.
Board Certified in Labor and Employment
Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, she has been in private practice with San Antonio firms for more
than 35 years, including five years as
department head of the labor and employment law group at Matthews &
Branscomb. Dawn also served as Senior
Counsel for Clear Channel Communications for more than four years.
Finlayson currently serves as a
SABA Director. She has served on and
chaired the speakers committee for SABA’s monthly luncheons for many years
and recently served on the 2016 SABA
Law Week Committee. She is a fellow of
the Texas Bar Foundation and a member
of the State Bar of Texas (SBOT) and the
American Bar Association. She is also a
member of the San Antonio Manufacturers Association and has served on
the executive boards of several alumni
and charitable organizations.
An author of numerous articles
and papers on substantive legal issues,
Finlayson has lectured on advanced
litigation for the SBOT, the University
of Texas and numerous other groups
that devote resources to the education
of licensed attorneys and also regularly
addresses students, business leaders,
human resources professionals and
attorneys on all aspects of employment law. She was selected by her San
Antonio peers as 2015 Lawyer of the
Year – Labor and Employment by U.S.
News & World Report’s Best Lawyers in
America. She is regularly recognized by
Best Lawyers and is also recognized by
Thompson Reuters Super Lawyers.
When she began her law career,
Finlayson served as Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas and
served as special law clerk to the Honorable W. S. Sessions. Finlayson received her undergraduate degree from
the University of Texas at Austin and,
in 1978, her law degree from St. Mary’s
University School of Law.
Finlayson and her husband of more
than 30 years, Dan, have deep San Antonio community roots. Dan is a realtor
who has spent years working with Alamo Heights and North San Antonio clients. They can often be seen with their
rescue dog, Woody, walking on the San
Antonio Riverwalk. When no one is
looking, Finlayson goes shopping for
vintage clothing at estate sales.
Candidate D:
Daryl Harris
Daryl Harris is an
Assistant District Attorney in the Bexar
County District Attorney’s Office, where he
has served since 2004.
During his tenure at the
District Attorney’s Office he has served
primarily as a trial attorney, representing the State of Texas in more than 60
criminal trials. He’s also advocated on
behalf of individual plaintiffs in more
than 20 petitions for protective and restraining orders. Harris is a graduate
of St. Mary’s University School of Law
and has served for years as an adjunct
professor of Trial Advocacy, where he’s
helped to train the next generation of
trial lawyers in Bexar County. He’s a
member of the San Antonio Black Law-
yer’s Association (SABLA) and an active
contributor to their Wills Clinics and
other outreach programs provided to
working class communities on the eastside of San Antonio.
Harris is a 2007 Fellow of the African American Leadership Institute
(AALI) sponsored by the Alamo City
Chamber of Commerce Education
Foundation. He is an active member
of the Grace First Baptist Church and
is a leader within the education ministry, mentoring high school students
in 2016 Texas YMCA Youth in Government – Mock Trial Competition, SAT/
ACT test preparation and written/oral
advocacy competitions. Harris is also
a life member of the Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity, Inc. and an energetic participant in its community service projects,
specifically Project Alpha, which seeks
to educate young men about their role
in reducing teenage pregnancy. Harris delivered the commemorative message at the 22nd Annual San Antonio
Citywide Interfaith Worship Service
in January 2009 and the text — “Dr.
King’s Legacy on Tolerance” — was
published in the January-February 2010
issue of San Antonio Lawyer. He has also
authored “By Any Means Necessary:
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Texas’
DNA Testing Law in the Adjudication
of Free-Standing Claims of Actual Innocence” published in The Scholar, St.
Mary’s Law Review on Minority Issues,
in the fall 2003.
Harris is a retired Army Officer who
is “airborne” and has served in a variety
of command and staff positions worldwide through his 20 years of service. In
addition to his law degree, Harris holds
a master’s degree in operations research
and systems analysis from Kansas State
University and a bachelor’s degree in
economics from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Aside from
his community involvement, Harris enjoys music, chess, cycling, working out
(whenever he makes the time), reading
a good mystery and fellowshipping
with friends from all walks of life. Harris is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio —
who “got to Texas as soon as I could!”
— and has been happily married to his
bride, Deborah, for more than 30 years.
He and Deborah have two adult sons.
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Candidate E:
Pedro Hernandez, Jr.
Pedro V. Hernandez, Jr. is a graduate of
SMU Dedman School
of Law, Texas A&M International University
(MBA), Baylor University (B.S.) and Holy Cross
High School. Twenty-one years ago, he
returned to his home town to practice
bankruptcy, business, probate and family law as a sole-practitioner. Prior to
then, Hernandez practiced law in Dallas at Gardere & Wynne and Rochelle &
Balzersen and also served as a former
U.S. Bankruptcy Court law clerk. He is
a Certified Public Accountant, licensed
since 1982, and has received training as
a Mediator.
Hernandez previously served in
various leadership roles within the
SABA Family Law Section, including
as a board member and President. He
is also a Past President of the SA Bankruptcy Bar Association. Hernandez has
spoken to both organizations on legal
topics, including valuation, bankruptcy
and family law.
In the community, Hernandez
volunteers as a mediator at the Bexar
County Dispute Resolution Center and
currently serves on the school advisory
board at St. Mary Magdalen Elementary School. He is a Life Fellow of the
Texas Bar Foundation and Member of
the Texas Bar College. Hernandez and
his wife, Alejandra, enjoy traveling together; however, he is on his own when
hacking away at high-handicap golf.
Candidate F:
Derek Hilley
www.georgeescobedo.com
Derek Hilley is a
graduate of St. Mary’s
University School of
Law, the University of
Texas and Clark High
School. He started his
law firm with partner
Carlos Solis two years ago after leaving
the District Attorney’s Office.
Prior to starting his litigation practice, Hilley worked at the Bexar County
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District Attorney’s Office where he interned after his first year of law school.
After graduating law school in 2008, he
began his legal career for the Law Firm
of S. Mark Murray, working on commercial litigation and estate litigation
cases.
Seeking additional trial experience,
Hilley worked at the Bexar County District Attorney’s office. He practiced in
the misdemeanor courts and was later
promoted to the Family Justice Unit,
where he advocated for children and
families affected by abuse. Hilley then
worked in the Elder Fraud Unit, prosecuting those who defrauded elderly
individuals, including contractor fraud,
identification fraud and mishandling
of estate matters. He volunteers as a
speaker throughout Texas, educating
members of our community about the
dangers of consumer fraud and how to
avoid falling victim. Hilley was voted
a 2015 and 2016 Best San Antonio Lawyer for Criminal Law and was recently
listed as a Rising Star.
Hilley has been happily married to
his wife, Jennifer, for more than eight
years, and they have two wonderful
children, Lyndin and Weston. He enjoys spending time with his family, hiking and helping his daughter work on
her garden.
Candidate G:
Richard Price
Richard Price presently serves as Judge of
the 285th District Court,
having been elected in
November 2010. Price
currently serves as a
Director of the San Antonio Bar Association (SABA).
Price was born and raised in San
Antonio. He received his law degree at
Washington & Lee University School
of Law, bachelor’s degree from Trinity
University and master’s degree in business administration at Incarnate Word
University.
Price has been a licensed attorney
for more than 27 years. Prior to becoming a judge, he handled cases primarily
in personal injury, premises liability,
product liability, construction litiga-
tion, toxic tort, mold, foundation, first
party, uninsured and underinsured
litigation and pro bono family law.
Price’s professional memberships
and community involvement through
the years include SABA and SABA’s District Courts Committee, Alternate Dispute Resolution Section, Construction
Law Section, Family Law Section, Litigation Law Section and Membership
Committee; State Bar of Texas (SBOT)
and SBOT’s Judicial Section; Texas Bar
Foundation; Juvenile Board of Bexar
County, Infrastructure Liaison Committee and Programs Committee; Civil
Jury Assignment Clerk Oversight Committee; Williams S. Sessions American
Inns of Court; and Any Baby Can Board.
Candidate H:
Christine Reinhard
Christine E. Reinhard
is a founding partner of
the locally-based, ninelawyer firm, Schmoyer
Reinhard LLP. Her
practice focuses on all
aspects of managementside labor and employment law, and as
an active trial lawyer, she regularly defends employers in employment-based
litigation throughout the state. Reinhard is Board Certified in Labor and
Employment Law by the Texas Board of
Legal Specialization.
Reinhard has been an active member of the local bar community, having
served as a Director of the San Antonio Bar Association and Foundation
since 2014. This past year, Reinhard
helped lead, along with the Honorable Judge Renee Yanta, Group 3 of the
William S. Sessions Inns of Court in
their January presentation, and she is
currently assisting the Bexar County
Women’s Bar Foundation with the establishment of their LEAD Academy.
Reinhard has served as the Chair of the
SABA Mentor-Mentee Committee and
is a Past President of the Bexar County
Women’s Bar Association and Foundation. She also recently wrapped up her
three-year term as Chair of the Human
Resources Committee for Seton Home,
having previously served on its Board
of Governors from 2009 to 2014.
In 2014, Reinhard was named an
Outstanding Lawyer by the San Antonio
Business Journal. She also has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America since 2011 and as Super Lawyer or
Rising Star since 2006. In 2012, she was
named by Best Lawyers as their inaugural San Antonio Litigation-Labor and
Employment Lawyer of the Year.
Reinhard is a proud graduate of St.
Mary’s University School of Law and
Texas A&M University. In the fall, you
can find her at every A&M home football game with her Aggie husband of 25
years, Zane, her Aggie daughter, Brittani, and soon-to-be son-in-law, Tyler
Chance (an Aggie too!). Reinhard enjoys reading, traveling and being a San
Antonio downtown denizen.
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L aw W eek 2016
T
he San Antonio Bar Association
and SA Bar Foundation hosted
an expanded calendar of community
outreach activities celebrating Law Week
and reached more than 2,500 people including middle school, high school and
college-aged students, Bexar County
neighbors and legal professionals.
On April 27, a partnership program
of Color of Justice hosted more than
80 attendees for a day-long program at
Texas A&M-San Antonio featuring more
than 20 attorneys and judges. Led by the
National Association of Women Judges,
the Color of Justice Program is a national
outreach project to encourage girls and
students from underrepresented communities to study law. On April 28, SABA
distributed pocket-sized copies of the
U.S. Constitution to welcome 232 new
citizens at a Naturalization Ceremony
presided by U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry
Bemporad and featuring guest speaker
Justice Patricia Alvarez. Throughout the
first week of May, SABA and representatives from ten affinity bar associations
distributed copies of the US Constitution
for Jury Appreciation, reaching nearly
2,000 residents reporting for jury duty.
Exceptional high school Peer Mediators
from Taft High School were recognized
with a customized Courthouse Tour and
pizza party on May 6.
The highlight of the week was the
May 4 Law Week Luncheon and Award
Ceremony at the Briscoe Western Art
Museum with a sold-out crowd of nearly
400 guests.
Judge Edward Prado, Law Week
Committee Chair, opened the Luncheon
festivities, which included many distinguished awards.
Gerry Goldstein introduced our keynote speaker, Michael Morton, author of
Getting Life: An Innocent Man’s Journey
from Prison to Peace. It was an impactful
day reinforcing how important civic liberty scholars, activists and defenders are
to our nation’s liberties and freedom.
Let my 40 years of
experience work for
you.
- Rey Garza, Broker
ABOVE: 2015 recipient, Lee Cusenbary, presented Sarah Donaldson, TRLA staff attorney,
with the 2016 Carolyn Thurmond Community Service Award.
BELOW: SABA President Marty Truss presented Gordon Hartman, founder of Wonderland
TX, with the 2016 Corporate Community Service Award.
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ABOVE (from left to right): 2016 Outstanding
Young Lawyer Lindsay Riley, 2016 Liberty Bell
winner Shokare “Sho” Nakpodia and 2016
Outstanding Mentor Angela J. Moore with
SAYLA President Barrett Shipp.
MIDDLE: 2015 recipient, Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller, presented Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Antonio (accepted by Antonio Fernandez, CEO) with the
2016 Peacemaker Award.
BELOW: 2015 Recipient, the Honorable
Catherine Stone (right photo), presented Gerald “Gerry” Goldstein (left photo) with the
2016 Joe Frazier Brown, Sr. Award of Excellence.
SABA is social!
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AT&T Excellence in Pro Bono Scholarship
CJP CO-CHAIRS
Judge Larry Noll, Judge Lisa Jarrett &
Judge David Canales
CJP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Amanda Reimherr Buckert
CJP EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
Charlcye “Charlie” Glenewinkel
NOTARY/PARALEGAL COORDINATOR
Mary Peña (Family Law Clinics)
NOTARY/PARALEGAL COORDINATOR
Patricia Giuliano (Wills Clinics)
NOTARY/PARALEGAL COORDINATOR
Lisa Santos (Family Law Clinics)
The
CJP
is
pleased to have a
wonderful partnership with AT&T for
the AT&T Excellence
in Pro Bono Scholarship Program. AT&T
has been a generous funder and longtime supporter of the CJP and continues
to encourage law students to engage in
pro bono work through supporting this
scholarship. The Spring 2016 winner
is Eric Michael Garza, who graduated
from St. Mary’s University School of Law
this May. Garza has volunteered with the
CJP in a variety of ways throughout his
law school career. He has been a delight
to work with and an incredible asset to
the CJP. The CJP thanks him for all of his
hard work to support pro bono efforts and
wishes him all the best as he begins his
career.
TBF grant funds support the CJP
The CJP is
pleased to announce it has
received grant
funding from
the Texas Bar Foundation (TBF) for sup-
port in expanding program operations.
The TBF is a longtime supporter of the
CJP and its mission to provide pro bono
legal services to low-income clients. The
CJP appreciates the generous support of
the Texas Bar Foundation.
Notary/Paralegal Coordinator
Susan Wilen (Veterans Clinics)
www.cjpsa.org
Volunteer to
“Just Take One”
pro bono case!
Volunteer attorneys are eligible to
receive free CLE credit,
including 1.0 hour of ethics, for
taking a case and working
with a mentor.
Volunteers, including a large showing from Norton Rose Fulbright, helped to make the Feb. 9
Family Law Clinic at the Wesley Health & Wellness Center a great success.
For more information, contact:
Amanda Reimherr Buckert
amandab@sabar.org
(210) 227-8822 ext. 126
or
CJP Co-chair Judge Larry Noll along with volunteer attorneys at the April 19 Wills Clinic at the
St. Mary’s Center for Legal & Social Justice.
charlieg@sabar.org
(210) 227-8822 ext. 111
U p c o m i n g C JP E v e n t s :
Charlcye Glenewinkel
Know a person in need of
pro bono legal services?
Direct them to contact the CJP
to see if they qualify.
Client Intake:
(210) 227-8828
cjpclients@sabar.org
June 17 – Veterans Clinic
1:00 p.m. at Audie L. Murphy
Veterans Hospital Recreation
Room, 7400 Merton Minter St.
July 15 – Veterans Clinic
1:00 p.m. at Audie L. Murphy
Veterans Hospital Recreation
Room, 7400 Merton Minter St.
July 19 – Wills Clinic
5:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Center
for Legal & Social Justice, 2507 NW 36th St.
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Thank You to our Just Give One Campaign Donors!
Barbara E. Scharf-Zeldes
David Evans
Marty Truss
Christine E. Reinhard
M. Scott Magers
Ty H. Sheehan
Gilbert Vara
Jill Torbert
Sue M. Hall
Stephen R. Lindemood
James H. Barrow
Joseph Paul Rubin
Sherry M. Barnash
Jeffrey L. Sprink
Justice Patricia O’Connell Alvarez
Marc F. Wiegand
Patrick J. Pape
Carol Bertsch
Jonathan Yedor
Sara E. Dysart
Gary W. Mayton
Pat Maloney
Frank R. Southers
Douglas E. Dilley
Jane Freeman Deyeso
Amy E. Bitter
Shannon Schmoyer
Heather Clement Tessmer
Susana Canseco
William H. Oliver
Rita Diane Sinclair
Alfred A. Cortez
Beth Watkins
John Patrick Rouse
Brian Christopher Steward
J.K. Leonard
Darby Riley
Michael Curry
Lisa A. Vance
Annalyn G. Smith
Ezra A. Johnson
The CJP appreciates everyone’s support and encourages all San Antonio area attorneys to support pro bono in our community.
You have heard us over the years ask attorneys to “Just Take One”
pro bono case per year. That is our motto! Now, we are asking you to
consider participating in our “Just Give One” Campaign by donating
the equivalent of one of your billable hours to the CJP. Since 2002, the
CJP has served more than 8,000 clients with thousands of volunteer
attorney hours. Please support access to justice and your local pro bono
project by returning your tax deductible donation of one billable hour.
You may do so by mailing in the form below with a check or by donating online at our new website www.cjpsa.org
Support the CJP & “Just Give One”
One Billable Hour = $______
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Checks payable to Community Justice Program
Mail to 100 Dolorosa, Suite 500; San Antonio, Texas 78205
New CJP website unveiled for
a ‘new’ CJP: www.cjpsa.org
The CJP is excited to announce
its new website! Please visit www.
cjpsa.org to check out the new website and find information on the
program. This is just the start, and
we hope you check back often to see
all the updates and expansions we
have planned.
The CJP would like to extend
an enormous thank you to web
designer extraordinaire Daniel
Lopez, who helped us design and
setup the beautiful new site in record time. The CJP appreciates his
support and commitment to helping the program with this project. If
you are interested in contacting him
for your website needs, send him
an email at info@branchleafdigital.
com or reach him by phone at (210)
838-6266.
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& Welcome
to the newest members of
the
SA Bar Association!
Brad A. Allen
Taylor Beaver
Reginald Blakeley
Scott P. Dalrymple
Alexandra Eaker-Perez
Adriana Jimenez
Heidi Junge
Leanne C. Lammert
Katherine O’Neill
Roxanne Parker
Alexander Rodriguez, III
Aamir Siddik
Virgil W. Yanta, Jr.
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B r iefly
Bill Piatt’s latest book, Human
Trafficking, (with Cheryl Page) has
been published by the Carolina Academic Press.
The law firm of Goode Casseb
Jones Riklin Choate & Watson, P.C. is
pleased to announce that Lee Warren
has joined the firm’s litigation practice.
Warren focuses on real estate and employment litigation. He is a graduate
of the George Washington University
School of Law. Before his move to San
Antonio, he was named a 2015 and 2016
Super Lawyers Rising Star in Virginia, where he tried numerous jury and
bench trials and argued before the Virginia Supreme Court.
The Felix Gonzalez Law Firm, P.C.
has relocated to its newly acquired office legal building at 626 E. Quincy St.,
San Antonio, TX 78215 as of March 21,
2016. The firm was previously located
in the Travis Park Plaza building for
twelve years.
Kim M. Munsinger is pleased to
announce the opening of her own firm,
Kim M. Munsinger, Attorney at Law,
where she will continue practicing family law with a focus on alternatives to
litigation, including collaborative divorce and mediation. Her address is
207 West Summit Ave., San Antonio, TX
78212; her telephone numbers are (210)
731-8500 and facsimile (210) 731-8665;
her website is www.munsingerlaw.com.
Harry L. Munsinger announces
the opening of The Law Office of Harry
L. Munsinger at 100 W. El Prado Drive
#205, San Antonio, TX 78212. Munsinger’s practice is limited to collaborative
family law, estate planning and probate
matters. Munsinger has written articles
on The Psychology of Collaborative Law;
Applying Collaborative Procedures to Will,
Probate, Trust and Guardianship Disputes;
and What Children Tell Judges.
Munsinger holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of Oregon,
attendee a post-doctoral fellowship at
Yale University and earned a law degree from Duke University School of
Law, where he was a member of Duke
Law Review. Munsinger’s phone is
(210) 776-7707 and his email address is
harry@harrymunsinger.com. For more
information, visit his website at www.
harrymunsinger.com.
The Law Office of Rebecca J. Carrillo, P.L.L.C. is pleased to announce
that Savannah Morrow has joined the
firm as a contract attorney. Morrow
graduated from St. Mary’s University
School of Law in May 2015.
Tess House has also joined the firm
as a contract attorney, while simultaneously running her own law practice, Tess House P.L.L.C. House is a
2014 graduate of St. Mary’s University
School of Law.
The law firm of Plunkett & Griesenbeck, Inc. is pleased to announce that
Keith A. Kendall has joined the firm
as a Shareholder. In addition, Lindsay
S. Hurt has joined the firm as an Associate. They will practice in the areas
of personal injury and wrongful death
cases, commercial trucking accidents,
commercial litigation, professional and
medical liability, fiduciary litigation
and products liability.
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inquiries to:
Erin Boren, Editor
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San Antonio Chapter
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Michael Curry
Allan DuBois
Steve Fogle
John Franco
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Charles Hanor
Reese Harrison
Chris Heinrichs
Ronald Hornberger
Nan Hundere
Richard Ihfe
Gary Javore
Jerry King
Daniel Kustoff
William Lemons
Dan Naranjo
Jamie Patterson
Biff F. Pennypacker
Gale “Pete” Peterson
Don Philbin
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SAYLA donates $1,500 to
Sheeran-Crowley
Memorial Trust
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The San Antonio Young
Lawyers Association’s (SAYLA)
Immediate-Past President Barrett Shipp and President-Elect
Ryan Cox presented State Bar of
Texas’ (SBOT) Immediate PastPresident Allan DuBois and Texas Young Lawyers Association
Chair Priscilla Camacho with a
$1,500 donation to the SheeranCrowley Memorial Trust.
The trust is an independent
organization that works closely
with the Texas Lawyers’ Assistance Program (TLAP), which
aids attorneys or law students
struggling with substance abuse
or mental illness. SAYLA raised
the funds by selling DuBois’
President Fiesta Medals during
Fiesta season in San Antonio.
DuBois set the goal of raising
$500,000 for the Sheeran-Crowley Trust during the 2015-16 bar
year, his term as SBOT President.
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Bexar County Courthouse CLOSED for
Independence Day
SAFLA Lunch - The Plaza
Club @ noon
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SA Lawyer Support Group
- Alamo Heights United
Methodist Church @
6:30 p.m.
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SA Christian Legal Society
Lunch - Petroleum Club
@ noon
Collaborative Professionals Assoc. SA mtg - Petroleum Club @ noon
Wednesday, July 6 - Friday, July 8
Pictorial Directory Photo Sessions SABA Office - Book appointments
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One, TBA - 5th Floor
Bexar County Courthouse @ 8:30 a.m.
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Part Two, TBA - 5th Floor
Bexar County Courthouse @ 8:30 a.m.
MABA-SA mtg - The Palm
@ 11:45 a.m.
FBA Lunch - Quarry Golf
Club Restaurant @ 11:45
a.m.
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SAYLA Lunch - Paesanos
Lincoln Heights @ noon
Health Law Section mtg Petroleum Club @ 11:30
a.m.
SABA Brown Bag Lunch
CLE - Judge Pozza’s
Courtroom @ noon
Elder Law Section mtg The Plaza Club @ noon
SA Estate Planners Council Lunch - SA Country
Club @ noon
SA Trial Lawyers Assoc.
Lunch - The Palm @
noon
Family Law Section mtg The Palm @ noon
Assoc. of Legal Admin.
mtg - Petroleum Club @
11:30 a.m.
CJP Wills Clinic - St.
Mary’s Center for Legal
& Social Justice @ 5:30
p.m.
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SA Bankruptcy Bar Association mtg - SA Country
Club @ 5:30 p.m.
Ethics Follies SCAMALOT SABA Monthly Luncheon
- 5th Floor Bexar County - The Plaza Club @ noon
Courthouse @ 9 a.m. &
2 p.m.
SA Legal Support Assoc.
Lunch - Chester’s Hamburgers @ noon
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