State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting 2018: This Year’s Bar Initiatives

Published: June 28, 2018, 7:36 p.m.

Rudy Metayer and Erich Birch, members of the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors, sit down with Rocky Dhir at the State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting to talk about bar initiatives. They go over the new investigation on transparency at the bar, addressing the fear regarding immigration bond hearings at the U.S. border, and ways the bar is helping lawyers struggling with mental illness and addiction. Stay tuned to hear about TLAP and TOJI, two programs directly targeted towards helping Texas lawyers.

Rudy Metayer has represented both public and private entities in hundreds of cases on a plethora of matters worth millions of dollars. He is also an estate bar director for the State of Texas Bar Association.

Erich Birch has over twenty-three years of legal experience primarily in the areas of environmental, administrative, and contract law. He is an estate bar director for the State of Texas Bar Association.