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Harris District Clerk lets public search cases by attorney name

Mark Bennett at Defending People directs readers to new online tools making it easy to identify what cases an individual attorney has worked on in Harris County. Basically you can find the lawyer's bar card number at the State Bar of Texas website, then use this search function from the Harris County District Clerk to tell what clients they've represented. Bennett walks through the blow-by-blow of how to run the searches, including screen shots.I just checked the web sites of District Clerks for Travis, Bexar, Dallas, Tarrant, and El Paso counties: None of them offered similar functionality, so kudos to Harris District Clerk Loren Jackson for putting the information online. Other counties should follow suit. As somebody who's used this type of information a lot in the past for a variety of purposes, IMO this should and could have been done in most jurisdictions a long time ago...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 09, 2009 (boomark / email).