Since 1902, Andrews Kurth lawyers and staff have worked to improve the communities where we work. Our firm does not approach community service as a bar association requirement; instead, we actively work to find large and small ways to help organizations and causes that make a difference in people’s lives. Typical examples from our Dallas and Houston offices show the kind of community commitment we make wherever our lawyers practice law.
Community Involvement
Andrews Kurth's Houston office is a sponsor for this Year's Rise & Shine 5K Walk/Run on Saturday morning, April 30, 2005. For details of this event please click on the above link.
A selected group of lawyers from our Dallas office participated in the Tech Alliance of Dallas (“TAD”) on January 15, 2005. The TAD is an umbrella organization that brings together technology and entrepreneurial-focused organizations in the Dallas area with thousands of members. We recognize that all of the key elements to accelerate the creation of new companies exist in Dallas. There are strong management teams, significant technical talent, and venture capital firms that are knowledgeable and interested in making investments in Dallas. For more information, please click on www.tadallas.org.
For the first annual “Back the Blue & Deep Ellum Too Fun Run,” held in November 2003 to raise money in support of the Dallas Police Department, its officers and their families, Andrews Kurth provided support through a corporate sponsorship. Our Special Counsel in Dallas also brought together different members of the legal community to encourage donations for the 130 runners participating in the fundraising event.
Our Dallas office supported Freedom Day in September 2003, an effort by the Entrepreneur's Foundation of North Texas to assist and rebuild Camp Summit, a summer camp for handicapped children. We sponsored the event as a firm and participated as individuals.
We were a lead sponsor and fielded a team of runners for the associated Freedom Run in September 2003. This second annual event, organized by the Dallas Young Lawyers Association, and the Dallas Assist the Officers Foundation, is a tribute to the American Spirit in honor of those affected by the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
In December 2002, to honor our firm’s 100th anniversary, Andrews Kurth established an annual corporate donor program to support the work of The 100 Club—and made a $25,000 donation to begin the program. The 100 Club is a Houston organization founded to financially assist dependants of law enforcement officers and firefighters who lose their lives in the line of duty, and to provide working officers with life-protecting equipment, training and programs.
Our ongoing support of The 100 Club will boost initiatives that would not otherwise be possible, and encourage additional backing by the business community for these efforts. We also recognized the firm’s centennial by making significant contributions to support similar charitable organizations in the other cities where we have offices.
