Board & Committee Contacts

Ellen Lockwood received her Bachelor of Music degree from Southwestern University and her paralegal certificate from Southwestern Professional Institute in Houston.

She is a past president of the Paralegal Division of the State Bar of Texas.  She previously served on the Board of Directors of the Paralegal Division from 1995 to 1997 and 2001 to 2006.  She served as Treasurer of the Division from 1996 to 1997 and again from 2002 to 2004.  She is also a past president of the Alamo Area Paralegal Association.

Ellen is Chair of the Professional Ethics Committee of the Division, a position she also held from 1997 to 2004, and from 2007 to present.  She is the lead author of the Paralegal Ethics Handbook published by Thomson Reuters..

In 2008, Ellen was honored to receive the Paralegal Division’s Award of Excellence and San Antonio Paralegal of the Year award.

Ellen has more than twenty years of paralegal experience in intellectual property and civil litigation.  She is a frequent speaker and writer on paralegal ethics and is currently employed as a a Trademark Paralegal for Schwegam Lundberg Woessner.

You may follow Ellen on Twitter @paralegalethics.

Letty has been a valued member of the Jones, Galligan, Key & Lozano family for over 27 years. She currently serves as the firm’s senior litigation paralegal, working under the supervision of Lance A. Kirby and Robert “Bob” L. Galligan, and for the past four years, under Paola R. Guerrero. Letty brings decades of experience in various areas, some of which include commercial litigation, personal injury defense, general civil litigation, and civil trial law.

Since beginning her legal career in 1991, Letty has played a vital role in numerous state and federal trials. Her responsibilities have included assisting with voir dire, jury trials, litigation strategy, and mediations.

Letty has been a member of the State Bar of Texas Paralegal Division since 2015. In 2016, she earned her Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification in Civil Trial Law. She also holds a Paralegal Certificate from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, awarded in 2015.

Outside of her professional life, Letty has been happily married to her husband, Meliton, for 37 years. They are proud parents of two grown children and grandparents to four grandchildren. Their family also includes three cats and four dogs. A seven-year breast cancer survivor, Letty enjoys traveling with her now-retired husband and cherishes time spent with her grandchildren.