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Texas Paralegal Day.  October 23rd.  We honor the work and progress of Paralegals across the great state of Texas and throughout the country.

Staff and students of the Center have been invited to attend the State Bar of Texas Paralegal Division in celebrating Texas Paralegal Day on October 22, 2009.  Here is a brief history of the day taken from www.alamoparalegals.org  to help celebrate and inform.

 

The State Bar of Texas is the first bar association in the United States to create a separate division for paralegals.  What was originally "the Legal Assistants Division" and is now "The Paralegal Divison" of the State Bar of Texas (the"Division") was created on October 23, 1981. 

 

On April 5, 1993, Texas Senate Concurrent Resolution 69 was signed by the President of the Senate, Bob Bullock, and the Speaker of the House, Pete Laney, commending the Division and the legal assistants of the State of Texas, and resolving that the 73rd Legislature of the State of Texas had declared October 23 as Texas Legal Assistants Day.

 

Beginning in 2005, the Texas House of Representatives signed proclamations acknowledging October 23rd as "Paralegal Day" (as a result of the Paralegal Divison's formal name change), for one or two years at a time.  However, on Januaryy 22, 2009 the Texas Senate issued Proclamation No. 1144, declaring October 23 to be Texas Paralegal Day indefinitely.