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Meet Kristy M. Banda
Meet Kristy M. Banda
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i have served
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on several boards uh one of them being
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a 501c organization that i actually
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am a co-founder of called women of law
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the purpose of that organization
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is to promote and encourage women
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lawyers
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in the legal field whether they be law
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students
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current lawyers or aspiring lawyers and
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the emphasis there is also on uh black
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and
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minority women in the legal community so
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i’ve co-founded that i’ve sat as a
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director on a board for the houston
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young lawyers association
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and i just recently joined the austin
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bar association
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and i am the incoming president of the
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young professional
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board for covenant house texas which is
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a 501 organization that helps support
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and provide necessities for homeless
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youth
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in the community so i’ve been a part of
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both
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in the community and as well as on
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legal boards
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community involvement is one of the most
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important things to me as an individual
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and so it was only natural that i
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brought that into
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service as a lawyer one of my missions
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when i came
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into this firm as a law clerk was to get
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people motivated and involved in
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volunteerism
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and i just have always had a connection
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to any community that i’ve been a part
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of
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it’s kind of just something that i grew
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up doing
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i come from a military family and so i
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think that
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just being having your ear to the ground
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to what’s going on in your community
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makes it that much easier to actually
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support
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and provide services and fight for the
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people in that community
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so the more you know about them the more
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you can help serve them
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even as a family lawyer you know so
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knowing what’s happening out there
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you know the types of divorces and
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family issues that people in your
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community are involved in
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um just gives you a little bit more
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knowledge when you’re moving forward
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with their case
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perhaps it’s a specific religious
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issue or um you know just a specific
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cultural issue
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if you don’t know what’s going on out
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there it’s going to be very hard for you
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to connect with your client and know
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what’s going on
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so i think that and just a general
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principle
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of giving back has been very important
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and motivating for me
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and i’ve kind of impressed that on the
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firm and i lead
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several efforts with the firm including
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our yearly hopefully we can continue
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with covid but yearly
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visit to the houston food bank where we
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you know volunteer for a day
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spend time there giving back and we kind
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of get other people
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in the community not just our law firm
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but our friends our family
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people that we know involved in that as well
Houston, TC family law attorney Kristy M. Banda talks about her service to the community and why it’s so important to her work as a lawyer.
