The office of Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee is now accepting applications for the 2023 Summer Legal Academy (SLA), a two-week educational readiness program for high school students to learn more about what it takes to become an attorney. […]
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Harris County Attorney Menefee Files Student Debt Relief Brief in US Supreme Court
Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee led Harris County in joining 40 other local governments in 23 states to file an amicus brief in Biden v. Nebraska, the case challenging the United States Department of Education’s plan to provide student debt relief […]
Harris County Attorney Names New Director of the Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library
Today Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee announced Joseph D. Lawson as the new Director of the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library. Lawson has served as the Deputy Director of the Law Library since 2014 and has focused […]
Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Introduces First County Database Cataloguing Commissioners Court Orders & County Policies
Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee today announced a new database that—for the first time in the County’s history—will organize and catalogue Commissioners Court orders and County policies and make those records readily viewable to the public. The database, called […]
Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Launches Civil Investigation into the Electricity Disaster, ERCOT, and Related Agencies, and Seeks Authority to Take Legal Action
Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee announced today his office is launching a civil investigation into the circumstances leading up to Texas’s recent electricity disaster—including decisions made by the Public Utility Commission (PUC), the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), […]



