Please join us on August 16, 2022 for TCYLA's CLE Luncheon at Reata as we welcome Paula Giaimo Morales of Tarrant County Jury Services and Christian Martinez of Kelly Hart & Hallman, LLP jointly presenting:  “Jury Jams: A Deep Dive Into How the Court and Litigants Obtain a Jury in Tarrant County.”

Paula Giaimo Morales has been the Tarrant County Jury Services Jury Bailiff/Administrator since 2005.  After graduating from Texas Christian University in 1990 with Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice, she served with the Tarrant County Jury Services and the Tarrant County Courts Probation Office.  In total, she has been employed with at Tarrant County for over 30 years.  Jury services were not automated when she first started.  Her team worked with IT professionals to develop an award-winning automated system.  In 2007, she seamlessly upgraded Tarrant County’s legacy system to our current web-based application.  She worked with a vendor to create the online panel assignment function for Tarrant County’s jury application.  Implementing online panel assignments has saved Tarrant County more than 1.2 million dollars to date.  Because of the experienced she gained in this process, she now assists other Texas counties with their jury management processes.

Christian Martinez is an associate in Kelly Hart’s Litigation section.  Mr. Martinez earned his J.D., cum laude, from Texas A&M University School of Law in 2021 and served as the Editor-in-Chief for the Texas A&M Journal of Property Law.  He graduated from Texas Tech University with a B.A., cum laude, in Economics and Political Science.  While in law school, Mr. Martinez was a member of the Latinx Law Student Association and interned for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

This presentation will be offered in-person at Reata with a recording available to members following the lunch.

In-person | $25 | Register here.