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Meet Lulu Flores
Meet Lulu Flores
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well i started practicing law well i was
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in law school actually when i went to
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work for my
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first
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real boss i would say at the texas
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legislature she was the first
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mexican-american woman ever elected to
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the texas legislature she wanted to hire
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other latinas to make sure that we got
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the opportunities to
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uh to do that work and so she became a
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very strong mentor to me
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uh
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taught me about
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really being
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meticulous about the work making sure
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that we were thorough made sure that
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we were handling constituent affairs as
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well as legislative matters to make sure
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that you
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represented the clients well that you
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you know gave them your complete and
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utter attention and made sure that
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whatever issues that they were
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experiencing that you were there to help
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them resolve them and so that set the
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bar for me
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in my
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practice of law and in my legal career
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the second mentor was another personal
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injury attorney
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in town his name is bill whitehurst
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and he was president of the state bar of
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texas and i got interviewed by him to
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take a job there
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as the legislative director for the
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state bar
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and so right away again um he
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expected really a
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you know high level of experience and uh
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detailed work uh he taught me about how
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to write a great memo to get the
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attention of folks by you know never
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bearing the lead with starting and
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making sure that you
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you get the point immediately or as
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quickly as possible to the reader and to
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make sure that
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you know you are
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getting uh folks attention and you’re
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getting your message across so that was
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another real important lesson to learn
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very early on in my career and also in
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working with the legislature you know
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those members have thousands of bills
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that they have to deal with on a regular
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basis and so if you’re if you’re going
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to be able to get their attention you
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can’t be writing lengthy memos you’ve
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got to really make sure you’re concise
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and precise and that you get your
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message across and so those were also
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very important tools that i learned very
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early on in my career
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i’ve held several positions within the
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bar and also in my community my role in
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the law firm is to be out in the
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community and to be the public service i
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like to say the public service arm of
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our law firm and so i take my community
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service work very seriously
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i’ve served on multitudes of boards
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including planned parenthood the
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battered women’s shelter texas advocacy
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project helping you know victims of
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domestic violence uh get get their day
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in court or be or be protected i’ve also
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worked on the ymca board as well as i
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serve currently on the austin arts
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commission i’m an appointed official
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at the city of austin and i help funding
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for the arts and arts organizations in
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our community
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i’ve lived in austin for 45 years and
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i’ve been involved for probably 30 of
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those years
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highly involved the hispanic bar
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association of austin is an organization
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that i’ve
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been engaged with since the very
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beginning of my legal career i’ve served
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as its president i’ve served as the
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president of the of the state affiliate
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the chapter the mexican american bar
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association of texas and i also served
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as a
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section state bar section chair for the
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hispanic issue section as well so i’m
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still involved with the hispanic bar i
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started some i started some projects
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almost 30 years ago for them
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where we give thanksgiving baskets every
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year to families in need in the
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community in addition i’ve
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started a holiday christmas party for
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for kids
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when i first joined the bar and i
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realized you know when we were doing our
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holiday parties all we were doing was
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you know celebrating amongst you know
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the lawyers and just spending money just
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to um you know have happy hours or
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whatever and i actually felt that we
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needed to do more in the community and
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that you know if we were going to
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celebrate the holidays we should be
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taking care of families and kids and so
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i instituted a
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a project whereby the attorneys adopt a
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child for christmas or for the holidays
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and provide
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a gift to them and so again organize a
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party with a magician and santa and
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pizza and
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and gifts for the kids and give uh you
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know
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grocery gift cards for the families
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because i want to make sure that we’re
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giving back and i want to make sure that
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the lawyers who have become
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more privileged members of our community
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always remember where they came back
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came from and always remember to to give
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back to the community that’s very
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important to me
Austin, TX personal injury attorney Lulu Flores talks about her mentors in the practice of law and her service to the community.
