To become board certified in juvenile law in Texas, the attorney must provide information as required by TBLS concerning specific tasks he or she has performed in Texas juvenile law.
In evaluating experience, TBLS may take into consideration the nature, complexity, and duration of the tasks handled by the attorney.
The attorney must provide the number of juvenile law matters that he or she has participated within the 3 years immediately preceding application in each of the following categories:
- Jury adjudication hearings;
- Non-Jury contested adjudication hearings;
- Pleas of true and stipulations of evidence;
- Detention hearings;
- Dismissals and sanction level one dispositions;
- Cases placed on deferred prosecution;
- Cases decided on pre-trial motions;
- Disposition proceedings;
- Modification of disposition proceedings;
- Proceedings involving mentally ill or retarded children;
- Proceedings involving records sealing or destruction;
- Parole revocation proceedings;
- Certifications to criminal court;
- Determinate sentence proceedings;
- Release/transfer hearings under determinate sentence act;
- Hearings to transfer determinate sentence probation to adult probation;
- Proceedings representing clients subject to with removal or expulsion from school (including truancy), or special education ARD hearings;
- Juvenile appeals;
- State or federal post-adjudication procedure or remedies;
- Other matters involving youths’ rights and the need for legal representation within the juvenile probation or correctional system.
