Organization promotes ethics, professionalism, civility in the legal profession

The Texas Center for Legal Ethics is marking 35 years of elevating ethics and professionalism in the practice of law.

“The need for ethics education and to promote professional civility in the legal profession is absolutely timeless,” said Judge Audrey Moorehead, who is the organization’s immediate past chair.

The Center is an independent, non-profit organization created to promote the values laid out in the Texas Lawyers’ Creed, which includes working to improve the legal system while abiding by the state’s rules of professional conduct.

The Center aims to be a leading source of ethics education by offering courses, speakers and continuing legal education seminars for state lawyers and other interested parties.

The organization provides more than 13,000 hours of continuing legal education to Texas lawyers each year.

Patrice Childress, chair of the organization’s board of trustees, said the Center offers an array of resources to help Texas attorneys represent their clients in a professional manner, while giving proper respect to the law, other attorneys and justice itself.

“At the end of the day, it’s how we best zealously advocate for our clients,” she said.

The Center boasts more than 800 resources available for lawyers and others interested in legal ethics, including about 40 courses on its website.

Its Justice James A. Baker Guide to Ethics and Professionalism in Texas, which is required for new lawyers in the state, has been completed by almost 90,000 attorneys since its creation.

“It’s a key piece of every lawyer’s education,” Ms. Childress said.

About Texas Center for Legal Ethics

Founded in 1989 by Chief Justice Pope and two other retired Texas Supreme Court chief justices, the Texas Center for Legal Ethics promotes the values contained in the Texas Lawyer’s Creed, fulfilling its founders’ vision to be the leading center of knowledge and resources for ethics and professionalism in Texas. For more information, visit the Texas Center for Legal Ethics website at http://www.legalethicstexas.com.

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“The need for ethics education and to promote professional civility in the legal profession is absolutely timeless,” said Judge Audrey Moorehead.