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Supreme Court tells new admittees to complete online registration and mandatory Baker guide
Summary
At a joint induction ceremony, court officials told new members of the State Bar of Texas they must finish online registration to be enrolled and complete the Justice James A. Baker Guide to the Basics of Law Practice as required by order of the Supreme Court of Texas.
The Supreme Court of Texas reminded newly approved lawyers at an induction ceremony that they must complete online registration to be enrolled as members of the State Bar of Texas and must complete the Justice James A. Baker Guide to the Basics of Law Practice, the court said.
Blake Hawthorne, clerk of the Supreme Court of Texas, told the class, “In order to be enrolled as a member of the state bar, you must complete the online registration process.” He added that the guide is required “by order [of the] Supreme Court of Texas” and that the course is administered by the Texas Center for Legal Ethics.
The requirement matters because registration and the Baker Guide completion are listed prerequisites to receiving formal membership materials and the ability to practice. Hawthorne said the award group will email instructions to claim a wall certificate and that the State Bar will mail bar cards separately.
Hawthorne also advised practical steps for new licensees, noting the oath printed in the program is theirs to keep and advising how to affix the certificate to a frame if they order one. He cautioned that the materials distributed at the ceremony include instructions and reiterated the registration and course requirements.
The clerk’s instructions were delivered during the ceremony’s housekeeping remarks before the courts convened. The clerk identified the Texas Center for Legal Ethics as the administrator of the Baker guide and said the course “can be registered and taken online, if you have not already done so.”
New admittees seeking to complete enrollment or the Baker guide were directed to the State Bar’s website and to the Texas Center for Legal Ethics for registration and course access.
