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Natalie Posgate

Natalie Posgate covers pro bono work, public service and diversity within the Texas legal community.

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Natalie Posgate

Natalie Posgate covers pro bono work, public service and diversity within the Texas legal community.

Natalie joined The Texas Lawbook in 2012 as a founding staff member shortly after receiving her Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Southern Methodist University. While at SMU, Natalie and SMU-classmate-turned-Lawbook-colleague Brooks Igo published “Sweeping Rape Under the Rug,” an award-winning investigative piece about SMU’s handling of on-campus sexual assaults. Later that year, Natalie and Brooks published a follow-up piece that broke the news of the first grand jury indictment in decades of an SMU student involving an alleged on-campus sexual assault. She began her reporting career in college as an intern for The Dallas Morning News’ breaking news desk, and before that, interned for Texas Highways magazine.

In the early days of The Lawbook, Natalie served as a general assignment reporter and covered everything from lawsuits to Texas law schools to mergers and acquisitions to legal industry trends. Before launching The Lawbook’s pro bono, public service and diversity beat, Natalie served as senior litigation writer. She has covered numerous high-profile trials gavel-to-gavel, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s 2013 insider trading case against Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban and a 2018 products liability trial that rendered a $242 million jury verdict against Toyota Motor Corp.

In 2021, Natalie profiled former East Texas federal prosecutor Joshua Russ, who went on the record for the first time with Posgate about resigning and filing a whistleblower complaint against the Department of Justice for its alleged political interference in a civil case Russ was leading against Walmart for its role in the opioid crisis. The piece is cited in a chapter of “Servants of the Damned,” a book released in September 2022 by New York Times journalist and bestselling author David Enrich.

Through The Lawbook’s content partnerships, Natalie’s work has regularly reappeared in the Houston Chronicle, Dallas Business Journal and The Dallas Morning News.

Natalie lives in East Dallas with her husband David and German Shorthaired Pointer rescue Stella. She is an avid runner, reader, hiker and coffee drinker.

P.S. — Winter Coat Drive, Identity Theft Relief, Squire Patton Boggs’ Distinguished Fellows 

This week’s edition of P.S. features a Toyota lawyer’s recognition for her commitment to justice and to helping the underrepresented, a Texas Appleseed pilot program that works to help domestic violence victims break free from coerced debt brought by their abusers, December dates for Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program’s pro bono legal clinics, and a winter coat donation occurring this weekend for low-income students in the Fort Worth Independent School District sponsored by a major Dallas personal injury firm.

December 1, 2023 Natalie Posgate

‘I Can Have a More Peaceful Life’: Sidley Helps Sexual Assault Survivor Secure VA Benefits

It was the actions of a series of men in the 1970s and 1980s that derailed the rest of Rachel Faili’s life, even almost ending it. It was the decision by a group of Sidley Austin lawyers to take action and represent this Houston veteran pro bono that helped her move forward from decades of the severe post traumatic stress disorder that has haunted her since her military service.

This is the story of both events, the bridge between them and how a lawyer’s skills can be used to truly make a difference in the lives of those who suffer.

November 30, 2023 Natalie Posgate

P.S. — Pro Bono Turkeys and Fixings 

A short and sweet P.S. this week highlights two Thanksgiving-themed public service efforts led by Winston & Strawn, a name partner at Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann and the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program. Plus: a movie recommendation.

November 22, 2023 Natalie Posgate

P.S. — Pro Bono Honor Roll, Civility in the Paxton Trial & More Accolades

This edition of P.S. features a new bank that joined a program that finances civil legal services in Texas through IOLTA accounts, a firm that recently became Mansfield 6.0 certified, recent awards received by Texas law students and law schools and law school staff and faculty for their dedication to pro bono, two lifetime achievement awards, a Texas firm’s recognition for its veteran pro bono work and an ABOTA civil and ethics-oriented award given to a special prosecutor in the Ken Paxton impeachment trial.

November 17, 2023 Natalie Posgate

P.S. — An Aviation Gala, A Humanitarian CLE, A Veteran ‘Hype Man’

This edition of P.S. features an award received by an Aldous Walker attorney, an upcoming international rule of law-focused CLE hosted by Dallas nonprofit ACT and a Veterans Day gala tonight in Houston co-chaired by the top lawyers at CenterPoint and ConocoPhillips. Plus: a feature of Haynes Boone associate Alex Clark, an Air Force intelligence analyst turned lawyer who helped organize a special swearing-in at the state capitol this week for newly minted lawyer-veterans, discusses how his personal experiences motivate him to continue serving veterans.

November 11, 2023 Natalie Posgate

Jeremy Wallace: From Air Force Language Analyst to Lawyer Giving Back to Vets 

Commercial litigator Jeremy Wallace loved his four years in the Air Force. He loved his work as a cryptologic language analyst, the friends he made, and the acquired skills that still show up in his law practice at Greenberg Traurig.

But, he acknowledges, “many people serve and they don’t leave unscathed,” so he’s put in significant hours this past year helping veterans pro bono. Wallace sat down with The Lawbook this week to discuss his military service, his path to becoming a lawyer and, as Veterans Day approaches, why he continues to serve veterans through pro bono work.

November 9, 2023 Natalie Posgate

TAJF Hosts Veterans Legal Aid Week 

Throughout this week and next week, the Texas Access to Justice Foundation is celebrating Texas Veterans Legal Aid Week, which offers free civil legal aid to Texas veterans at various in-person and virtual clinics across the state. This article lists all upcoming clinics for veterans in need of pro bono legal advice as well as attorneys who want to inquire about volunteering.

November 7, 2023 Natalie Posgate

P.S. — UH Law’s New Immigration Clinic Director, DVAP Pro Bono Awards, The “Why” Behind HBA’s Harvest Celebration

This week’s edition of P.S. features the fundraising outcome of the JL Turner Legal Association Foundation’s annual awards gala, an Arlington nonprofit that received federal funding to help prevent youth homelessness, select quotes from partners at Baker Botts and Hunton Andrews Kurth and LyondellBasell’s general counsel on why supporting this year’s Houston Bar Association Harvest Celebration was important to their organizations, this year’s recipients of the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program’s pro bono awards, and the University of Houston Law Center’s newest legal clinic hire.

November 3, 2023 Natalie Posgate

Three Senior In-House Lawyers on How to Gain (and Lose) their Business

During a panel discussion last Friday at the Texas Minority Counsel Program’s 31st annual conference in Houston, the three high-ranking in-house lawyers at Goldman Sachs, Energy Transfer and Republic National Distributing went into detail on what they look for in outside counsel, and also offered a plethora of ways law firms could immediately land in the doghouse — if not lose their business immediately. 

November 3, 2023 Natalie Posgate

P.S. — TMCP Fights DEI Vampires; Haynes Boone Did Not Ghost on 2023 Pro Bono Work 

In this special Halloween edition of P.S., Natalie Posgate highlights details from the Texas Minority Council Program awards, the recipients of A&M Law’s 2023 Alumni Legacy Awards, NAMWOLF’s 2023 law firm MVP, November legal clinic dates in Dallas (the first one falling on Día de los Muertos), a Texas Access to Justice Foundation luncheon that honored a group of individuals for their efforts during the Texas Legislature’s 88th session, and how Haynes Boone celebrated the end of the ABA’s National Celebration of Pro Bono last week.

October 31, 2023 Natalie Posgate

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  • P.S. — Winter Coat Drive, Identity Theft Relief, Squire Patton Boggs’ Distinguished Fellows  - This week’s edition of P.S. features a Toyota lawyer’s recognition for her commitment to justice and to helping the underrepresented, a Texas Appleseed pilot program that works to help domestic violence victims break free from coerced debt brought by their abusers, December dates for Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program’s pro bono legal clinics, and a winter coat donation occurring this weekend for low-income students in the Fort Worth Independent School District sponsored by a major Dallas personal injury firm. December 1, 2023Natalie Posgate

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Whitney Breheny
Amanda Bridson
Shonn Brown
Ruth Burdick
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Brett Busby
Chrysta Castañeda
Sara Chelette
Jonathan Childers
Peter Clarke
Charles T. Collins-Chase
Joseph Connors III
Andrés Correa
Colin Cox
Trey Cox
Rob Crain
Josh Davidson
Alain Dermarkar
Tonja De Sloover
John Dinan
Elysa Dishman
Miriam Domer
Molly Duane
Sarah Dyer
Dan Dyring
Catherine Baker Ellis
Jeremy Fielding
Spencer Finney
Gina Flores
Scott Freeman
Andrianna Frinzi
Richard Frye
Catherine Gallagher
Hilda Galvan
Doug Getten
Sarah George
Marc Gravely
Guy Gribov
Stancell Haigwood
Sophia Han
Deborah Hankinson
Rusty Hardin
Sam Hardy
Matt Hart
Jason Hawkins
Chris Heasley
Marshall Heins II
James Ho
Vinh Ho
Morgan Hollins
Mary Jo Holloway
Hillary Holmes
Renee Hunter
Michael Hurst
Lindsey Jacquillard
Ellyn Josef
Evan Kastner
Dan Kelly
Emily Kelly
Michael Kenneally
Daniel Kenney
Timothy Kincaid
Dan Komarek
Judy Kostura
Niko Lane
Efren Lemus
Jordan Leon
Paul Linton
Bryan Loocke
Mike Lynn
Kurt Malmquist II
Charles Martin
Michael Masri
Dan McLemore
Raffi Melkonian
Tom Melsheimer
Richard Mithoff
Bill Munck
Wendy J. Murphy
James Musselman
Roald Nashi
Aaron Nielson
Mary Goodrich Nix
Paul Nolette
Mark Oakes
Bryan Parrish
Griffin Peeples
Julie Pettit
Lanora C. Pettit
Michael Piazza
James Pikl
Edward Piña
Eric Pinker
Ryan Poche
Clint Rancher
Mark Ray
Cara E. Regan
Zach Rider
Ashley S. Rogers
Byron Romain
Christine Robb
Brian Rosenzweig
Bethany Salpietra
Omar Samji
Michelle Sargent
Chris Schwegmann
Anand K. Sharma
Charles Siegel
Elliott Smith
Jason C.N. Smith
Erin Snody
Joseph Soliz
Richard Stanley
Britta Stanton
Brantley Starr
Sarah Stewart
Steve Stodghill
Justin Sumner
Steve Sumner
Tara Tegeleci
David Thompson
Jeff Tillotson
Aaron Tobin
Griffin Tolle
Julie Ungerman
Marcel Valenta
Samuel Wales
Jordan Warshauer
Tom Wheeler
Ray Winter
Travis Wofford
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