Paralegal Division News

CLE Requirements for Active or Associate Members:
If you are a current 2022-2023 Active or Associate member (membership expiring on May 31, 2023), you are required to obtain at least 6 hours of CLE, 1 hour of which must be legal ethics (2 hours can be self-study) between June 1, 2022 and May 31, 2023 in order to renew your 2023-2024 membership.  (If you applied for membership after February 25, 2023 you DO NOT need to renew until May 31, 2024.)

Tracking your Required CLE:
Renewing Active and Associate members must document required CLE PRIOR TO completing the online membership renewal application.  You may enter your CLE by accessing the page found on the PD website at www.txpd.org (Go to the Members Only>Manage My CLE Records and log in).  Go online and enter your CLE today!

Help Finding CLE:
The Paralegal Division is here to help you obtain your CLE.  You may attend an on-site CLE or an Online CLE or download a CLEtoGo (podcast) from the PD’s Online CLE.  The Paralegal Division has a CLE website calendar that lists upcoming CLE (view at www.txpd.org) and also houses an Online CLE library for easy access to CLE.

Purchase 3 or more Online CLE and Save purchase 3-4 CLE events and save 10%, purchase 5 or more CLE events and save 20%! Select from over 160 events from our Online CLE Library.
Check out this great offer HERE  This is valid through May 31, 2023.
All topics must be purchased at the same time.

For the upcoming 2023 Texas Advanced Paralegal Seminar (TAPS), a three-day CLE seminar, the PARALEGAL DIVISION of the State Bar of Texas will award up to two (2) educational scholarships for the three-day registration to attend the TAPS 2023 seminar, “I Spy CLE – TAPS 2023.”

Scholarship Deadline is July 14, 2023!

The Scholarship Application can be found HERE

We are pleased to offer sponsorship and exhibit opportunities for our upcoming Texas Advanced Paralegal Seminar (TAPS) to be held in Frisco, TX at The Embassy Suites and Convention Center on September 27-29, 2023.  The TAPS event is attended by 225 plus paralegals from across the State of Texas and offers up to 14 substantive CLE hours in various areas of law.  There are 60 plus speakers presenting over the course of three days. The exhibit hall is open on Thursday, September 28, 2023.  The sponsored social is on Thursday, September  28, 2023.

For more information go to our webpage:  TAPS Sponsorships | Paralegal Division – State Bar of Texas (txpd.org)

NOTICE OF VOTING— March 23 through April 10, 2023

All Active members of the Paralegal Division in good standing as of March 23, 2023 are eligible to vote. All voting must be completed on or before 11:59 p.m., April 10, 2023.

All voting will be on-line and no ballots will be mailed to members.

Please take a few minutes to logon to the PD’s website (beginning March 23) and cast your vote for your district’s director. The process is fast, easy, anonymous, and secure.

• Between March 23 and April 10, 2023 go to www.txpd.org

• In the MyAccount section, click on “Vote”

• Follow the instructions to login a