YLA Snapshot

from Tarrant County Bar Association Bar Bulletin (April 2022)

by Tarrant County Bar Association Bar Bulletin

Membership Report

YLA

Snapshot

Brian Singleterry 2021–2022 TCYLA President

The Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association stayed busy during the Winter, and it will continue to offer great opportunities for the legal community in the Spring. Here is a sampling of the great things going on.

First, President-Elect Aulstin Gardner led a team that outfitted the Child Protection Services Courts with a support room with toys, books, and comforts for the children pulled into its jurisdiction. With the help of a grant from the Texas Young Lawyers Association, Aulstin and the TCYLA have provided the children a more comfortable and humane place to wait while dealing with a difficult situation. Aulstin deserves all the credit for this project. He did a fantastic job, and thanks to this project, children in our community will benefit for years to come.

Second, our annual Spring Fiesta is just around the corner —April 14. We have been forced to cancel the Spring Fiesta for two years due to Covid. We are excited to see everyone and are expecting a great turnout from our members, past TCYLA members, our local judiciary, and Tarrant County legal community. A huge thanks to Jeffrey Tillman for leading up these efforts.

Next, TCYLA has many great offerings coming up in the next months. Austin Franklin and Priscilla Bowens have done an amazing job lining up great CLEs. Coming up are a talk on intellectual property law and a panel of family law judges. We also have happy hours, volunteer events at Taste Project, and softball league signups. Please visit our Facebook and website for more information.

All these opportunities are possible because of the hard work of the TCYLA board. They have expended many hours to better our legal community—hours they could have spent with their family, friends, or working. I want to thank each of you for your efforts. g