Notices and Announcements

Volume 17, Issue 2

SAVE THE DATE – 2022 TCAA Summer Conference!

The 2022 Summer Conference will take place on June 15-17, 2022, at the San Luis Resort Spa & Conference Center, in Galveston. Conference registration and hotel block reservations will open in March. Please watch your inbox for more details in the coming weeks!

CARE Unit

The City Attorneys Responding in an Emergency (CARE) Unit consists of volunteer city attorneys from around the state who are willing to assist local city attorneys in responding to a catastrophic event by providing critical legal assistance to facilitate recovery. If you are interested in serving (or continuing to serve) as a member of this invaluable team, the TCAA Board asks that you complete this very brief survey by March 1. Contact Evelyn Njuguna at evelyn@tml.org or 512-231-7400 with questions.

Government Law Specialization Petition

The Government Law Section of the State Bar of Texas (Section) has created a petition requesting that the Texas Board of Legal Specialization establish local government law as a recognized legal specialty area.  In order to submit a qualified petition, the Section needs to gather a certain number of signatures.  The Section is encouraging local government lawyers to review the petition, and to sign and return the signature form if they support the specialization.  Signed forms should be send to chandler.grace@rshlawfirm.com.  Once the Section has gathered all of the required signatures it will submit the petition to the Texas Board of Legal Specialization for consideration.  For more information and updates, please visit: www.txgovernmentlaw.org

TCAA Online Membership Directory

Looking to find the contact information for a fellow TCAA member? You can find it using the TCAA membership directory, available here.

IMLA Membership

Membership with IMLA doesn’t just mean discounts to their events. It’s much more than that. Click here to view a quick video about IMLA membership.

Continuing Legal Education

2021 TCAA Summer and Fall Conferences

These TCAA online seminars are FREE, allowing TCAA members who are city attorneys, assistant city attorneys, or attorneys who regularly practice municipal law to view the videos from the conferences in a singlesession format.  Viewing a session allows attorneys to receive participatory CLE credit with the State Bar. To view these seminars, please visit tcaaonlineseminars.org. (Use the case-sensitive password “FreeCLE” to gain access to the sessions.)

If you would like to have an article considered for publication in the TCAA newsletter, please send your request to Evelyn Njuguna at evelyn@tml.org.