My mailbox overflows with section newsletters featuring details of the sections' extensive projects, tailored legal articles, case summaries and practice tips. Lawyers who share similar interests join together in sections to improve their practice areas and to develop their own professionalism. Many members are active in the myriad of section projects. Most members passively enjoy the most obvious benefit of membership, the sections' newsletters. The newsletters take all sorts of forms.
Several sections publish law journals in conjunction with Texas law schools.
The Insurance Section takes a different tack. Its new Journal of Texas Insurance Law is a slick volume that combines legal scholarship with photos and illustrations. The General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section publishes its report as a loose-leaf digest divided into substantive and procedural categories. Then to top it all off, the Computer and Technology Section has published a CD sampler of journals from 14 of the sections. Here are a few examples of other projects.