Communities In Schools

This committee partners with Communities In Schools, Inc. to provide summer internships in the legal profession for high school students. HBA firms, corporations, and individuals are recruited by the committee to sponsor student interns. The committee plans and staffs enrichment activities for the students during the summer internship program as well as the Orientation and Program Celebration. At the end of the summer, the committee evaluates the internship program.

The committee is currently seeking Houston area law firms, corporate legal departments, and public interest agencies that are interested in participating in the 2019 HBA/CIS Summer Legal Internship Program. Click here to show your interest

Please contact the HBA/CIS co-chairs if you have any questions.

 

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The HBA/CIS Summer Legal Internship Program came to a close with a mock trial on July 25 and luncheon on July 26 for exemplary minority high school interns employed by Houston law firms.

Houston Bar Foundation Chair and CIS Committee Member Barrett Reasoner, two CIS summer interns (who happen to be the first set of twins in the program), the program speaker Diana Marshall, and CIS Committee Co-Chair Bill Kroger.
Houston Bar Foundation Chair and CIS Committee Member Barrett Reasoner, two CIS summer interns (who happen to be the first set of twins in the program), the program speaker Diana Marshall, and CIS Committee Co-Chair Bill Kroger.

 

From left: Reasoner, Marshall and Kroger.
From left: Reasoner, Kroger and Marshall.

 

Chevazz Brown, attorney supervisor at Jackson Walker LLP, and his CIS summer intern Tala Salek, who spoke at the closing program.
Chevazz Brown, attorney supervisor at Jackson Walker LLP, and his CIS summer intern Tala Salek, who spoke at the closing program.

Two of three new co-chairs for the 2018-2019 HBA CIS Committee, Farrah Lang of Wong Fleming and Misty Gasiorowski of Weycer Kaplan Pulaski & Zuber, P.C. Not pictured: Chanler Langham of Susman Godfrey LLP.
Two of three new co-chairs for the 2018-2019 HBA CIS Committee, Farrah Lang of Wong Fleming and Misty Gasiorowski of Weycer Kaplan Pulaski & Zuber, P.C. Not pictured: Chanler Langham of Susman Godfrey LLP.

 

HBA/CIS interns at a mock trial event.
HBA/CIS interns at a mock trial event.

 

One of the party favors handed out at the event was a box of personalized M&Ms, printed with 'Thank You,' 'HBA,' 'CIS,' and '2018.'
One of the party favors handed out at the event was a box of personalized M&Ms, printed with “Thank You,” “HBA,” “CIS,” and “2018.”

Thank you to the offices that hired high school interns in the 2018 Summer Program!

Baker Botts L.L.P.
BakerHostetler LLP
Beck Redden LLP
Blank Rome LLP
Dobrowski, Larkin & Johnson LLP
Foley Gardere
Gibbs & Bruns LLP
Gray Reed & McGraw LLP
Harris County District Clerk’s Office
Houston Volunteer Lawyers

Haynes and Boone, L.L.P.
Jackson Walker LLP
Jones Day
King and Spalding LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P.
Spencer Ogden, Inc.
Vinson & Elkins LLP

Co-Chair:
Ms. Misty Gasiorowski
Weycer Kaplan Pulaski & Zuber, P.C.
11 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1400
Houston, TX 77046
(713) 961-9045

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Co-Chair:
Ms. Farrah Lang
Wong Fleming
77 Sugar Creek Center Blvd, Suite 401
Sugar Land, TX 77478
(281) 340-2074

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Co-Chair:
Mr. Chanler Langham
Susman Godfrey L.L.P.
1000 Louisiana, Suite 5100
Houston, TX 77002
(713) 651-9366

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