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Annual Meeting Notice

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LAU Notice

LAU 2002 – it’s a lad tradition

Legal Assistants University

September 18–20, 2002, Houston

Put it on your calendar now!

14 hours of CLE credit

4th Annual Three Day CLE Seminar to be held at the new Intercontinental Hotel (opening April 2002)

2222 West Loop South, Houston, Texas (next to The Galleria)

Classes begin Wednesday, September 18 and end Friday, September 20

We welcome back alumni from past LAU seminars and hope to see new faces for this intensive seminar covering numerous substantive topics. We also throw in a lot of good food and social time that you do not want to miss!

LAU Scholarship Application is available online at www.lad.org—two will be awarded for LAU 2002!

Full brochure will be included in the June 2002 Texas Paralegal Journal and on the website at www.txpd.org

State Bar Legal Assistant Committee Chair Takes a New Seat

On August 29, 2001 Texas Governor Rick Perry appointed Xavier Rodriguez, a labor lawyer with the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski (San Antonio) to the Texas Supreme Court.

Xavier Rodriguez is former Chair of the State Bar Legal Assistant Committee, and served on the committee for several years before becoming Chair.

The Legal Assistant Committee of the State Bar is appointed by the State Bar President and its members are primarily attorneys, with some legal assistants appointed as public members of the committee.

In addition, Justice Rodriguez previously served on the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Legal Assistants (“SCOLA”)after appointment by the ABA President. In these positions, Mr. Rodriguez has attended Texas Legal Assistant Division meetings and national paralegal organization meetings.

Mr. Rodriguez graduated from Harvard in 1983 and received his law degree from the University of Texas in 1987. At the time of his appointment to the Texas Supreme Court,he practiced law at the San Antonio office of Fulbright & Jaworski. He will seek election to the Court in 2002.

An interesting note is that Mr. Rodriguez was appointed to fulfill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by Justice Greg Abbott, who was a former legal assistant in Austin prior to becoming an attorney and left the Court to run for Texas Attorney General.

Michele Boerder, Legal Assistant, Hughes & Luce, L.L.P.

web Wizards

http://www.fedstats.gov provides a guide to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies;

http://www.llrx.com/guide/index.htm is an online encyclopedia for legal researchers, with a wealth of information broken up by state and by subject matter;

http://www.uscourts.gov/fcmstat/index.html is the link to federal court management statistics;

http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/ is the Texas Legislative Reference Library;

http://www.courts.state.tx.us/trial/courtlin.asp is a link to all of the state courts in Texas, although the information contained in each court’s link to the site varies; This link has procedural rules for each state: http://www.depo.com/discovery_rules.htm

This is a nice citation search engine: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs

This link provides access to all the state trademark forms that are online: http://statetm.tripod.com/

And this site allows one to conduct an international domain name search: http://www.webkor.com/cgi-bin/domains/cdpro4.pl

and then there's http://www.bl.uk/services/stb/etalmenu.html: This one is out of the UK, and provides a pretty comprehensive listing not only of patent sites of all types, but also designs, trademarks and copyright, legislation, inventors organisations, lobby groups for Europe.

This site gives you biographical information on all federal judges in the United States. http://air.fjc.gov/history/judges_frm.html

Enron Collapse—Resources
Special Sections Devoted to Enron
Findlaw.Com http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/enron/: Extensive list of primary documents.

Houston Chronicle, “Hot-Topic-Enron” <http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/01/enron/index.html>
Full-Text articles, numerous charts, list of area creditors, company history.

New York Times, “Understanding Enron” http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/14/business/_ENRON-PRIMER.html: Full-Text articles, lawyer bios, board of director bios.

Washington Post, “Enron Probe”
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/specials/energy/enron/> Full-Text articles, bios of key players, timeline, key documents.

See Also: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, “Enron Issues” <http://energycommerce.house.gov/107/keywords/Enron.htm>

Links to secretaries of state for most states. <http://www.idsos.state.id.us/othsosT.htm>

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