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Some pictures from our recent Coffee with the Courts program in Texarkana!

Join us for... Coffee with the Thirteenth Court of Appeals Sponsored by the Appellate Sections of the State Bar of Texas and the Hidalgo County Bar Association Thursday, September 18, 2025 || 9:00 – 10:00 AM

Our @TexAppOrg Twitter Brief contest is back! Entries will be due by August 22, 2025. Rules below.

A reminder that we have a coffee on July 31st in San Antonio with the Fourth Court of Appeals.

A great coffee with the Court coming up!

Reminder that this closes May 30, 2025!

See below for nominations to the Texas Appellate Hall of Fame!

A great event! September 12, 2024. No RSVP required.

Nominations are open for about two more weeks for the Texas Appellate Hall of Fame! Nomination instructions here: #AppellateTwitter

We’re fortunate in Texas that #SCOTX has been webcasting its oral arguments for over *17* years since 2007! 👀 Watch them anytime at: texasbarcle.com/CLE/TSCSearch.… 🍿 Or listen to oral arguments going back a *half-century* to 1979: txcourts.gov/supreme/oral-a… 🎧 #AppellateTwitter ⚖️

The Supreme Court of Texas has issued final approval to new Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 34.5a and amendments to Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure 35.3 and 38.6 after receiving public comment. To view the new and amended rules, go here: txcourts.gov/media/1458489/…

· It’s time again for nominations to the Texas Appellate Hall of Fame! Our announcement and instructions are below! #AppellateTwitter

Always amazed by the assembled appellate horsepower at @TexAppOrg Council meetings! 👀

@SupremeCourt_TX @statebaroftexas @TexAppOrg @SCOTXHistSocy #SCOTX has even digitized old oral argument audio-cassette recordings going back to *1979* and posted them free for public access at txcourts.gov/supreme/oral-a….💯 🧵/end #AppellateTwitter 📼

And all of those videotaped oral arguments are free for the public to view at texasbarcle.com/CLE/TSCSearch.…. 🧵/2 #AppellateTwitter 📺

Congratulations to former @JusticeWillett clerk, @AppellateBeef—the 1st former #SCOTX clerk to go on to clerk for #SCOTUS—who will serve as the next Solicitor General of Louisiana! ⚜️💯 #AppellateTwitter ⚖️

One of only two Texan-born #SCOTUS Justices, what a legacy of outstanding public service Sandra Day O’Connor leaves behind after a life particularly well lived. Here she is at @SCOTXHistSocy’s 2013 Hemphill Dinner with fmr #SCOTX CJ Jefferson & every living woman SCOTX Justice.

Our illustrious Madame Chair @texapp presides over the Section’s first, full-length Council meeting of the Bar year! Many thanks to @LockeLord for hosting the Section this year! #AppellateTwitter ⚖️🏛️

Kudos to State Bar/Texas Supreme Court Historical Society scholar, historian, and attorney William J. Chriss on his upcoming Texas A&M Press book SIX CONSTITUTIONS OVER TEXAS: TEXAS’S POLITICAL IDENTITY 1830-1900. Superb history + legal/SCOTX history. 📜📃📚⚖️⚔️🏛️ Pls repost.

Justice Mark Whittington advises lawyers to keep their briefs simple. Not necessarily at a 10th grade level: but your client has to understand the brief. #AppellateTwitter. vimeo.com/180525220