Austin Bar Members Honored for Austin Lawyer Submissions

Three Local Attorneys Receive “Stars of Texas Bars” Awards for Their Articles

Three Austin Bar Association members were recently honored by the State Bar of Texas for their writing.

The “Stars of Texas Bars” presents several awards each year for outstanding articles published by local bar associations.

The Austin Bar submitted articles published in Austin Lawyer between May 2022 and April 2023 to be considered for the awards.

Rick Cofer and Megan Rue of Cofer & Connelly PLLC won this year’s Stars of Texas Bars Award for News Article for their article “What’s in a Name? That Which We Call Weed.” The article is available to read online in the June 2022 issue of Austin Lawyer.

Wayne Schiess won this year’s Stars of Texas Bars Award for Series of Articles – Feature/General Interest for his series of articles, “Readable Contracts.” This series of articles is available to read online in the July/August 2022 –November 2022 issues of Austin Lawyer. Schiess is a senior lecturer at The University of Texas’s David J. Beck Center for Legal Research, Writing, and Appellate Advocacy. He also runs LegalWriting.net, where he publishes his articles on legal writing best practices. Schiess’s legal writing articles have regularly appeared in Austin Lawyer for the past 15 years.

Congratulations to these authors!

Digital copies of Austin Lawyer are available at issuu.com/austinbar.

(L-R): Outgoing State Bar President Laura Gibson, outgoing Austin Bar President Amanda Arriaga, and award-winner Wayne Schiess at the State Bar of Texas awards luncheon June 22, 2023.

Award-winner Rick Cofer of Cofer & Conelly PLLC.