Tim Hootman
Texas Appellate Attorney
2402 Pease Street
Houston, Texas 77003

Tel: 713-247-9548
Fax: 713-583-9523
Cell: 713-366-6229
 

Texas Appellate Courts:

• Texas Supreme Court
• Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
• 1st Court of Appeals (Houston)
• 2nd Court of Appeals (Fort Worth)
• 3rd Court of Appeals (Austin)
• 4th Court of Appeals (San Antonio)
• 5th Court of Appeals (Dallas)
• 6th Court of Appeals (Texarkana)
• 7th Court of Appeals (Amarillo)
• 8th Court of Appeals (El Paso)
• 9th Court of Appeals (Beaumont)
• 10th Court of Appeals (Waco)
• 11th Court of Appeals (Eastland)
• 12th Court of Appeals (Tyler)
• 13th Court of Appeals (Corpus Christi/Edinburg)
• 14th Court of Appeals (Houston)

Federal Appellate Courts:

• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals (Boston)
• U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals (New York)
• U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals (Washington D.C.)
• U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (Richmond)
• U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (New Orleans)
• U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals (Cincinnati)
• U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals (Chicago)
• U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals (St. Louis)
• U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (San Francisco)
• U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals (Denver)
• U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (Atlanta)

Texas Government:

• Texas Senate
• Texas House of Representatives  
• Texas Legislative Council
• Texas Legislature Online
• Texas Legislative Reference Library
• Texas Prisons
• State Bar of Texas
• State Bar of Texas Appellate Section
• Harris County Electronic Court Records
• Harris County Government Telephone Directory

Federal Government:

• U.S. Senate
• U.S. House of Representatives
• CM/ECF Federal Filing System
• Immigration Courts
• Pacer (Public Access to Court Electronic Records)
   

Current Texas Law:

• Texas Administrative Code
• Texas Bar Rules
• Texas Local Rules
• Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure
• Texas Rules of Civil Procedure
• Texas Rules of Evidence
• Texas Statutes

Current Federal Law:

• CFR (Code of Federal Regulations)
• Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
• U.S. Supreme Court Rules
   

Federal Appellate Court Jury Instructions:

• U.S. 5th Circuit Jury Instructions
• U.S. 7th Circuit Jury Instructions
• U.S. 9th Circuit Jury Instructions – Criminal
• U.S. 9th Circuit Jury Instructions – Civil
• U.S. 11th Circuit Jury Instructions – Criminal
• U.S. 11th Circuit Jury Instructions – Civil
   

Historical Law:

• Gammel's Texas Historical Statutes
• Hening’s Statutes
• Portal to Texas History
• Texas Historic Constitutions
• Texas Reports
• Texas Revised Civil Statutes
• Texas State Law Library

Law Review Journals:

• Baylor Law Review
• Berkley Journal of Criminal Law
• California Law Review
• Columbia Law Review
• Cornell Law Review
• Duke Law Journal
• Harvard Law Review
• Houston Law Review
• Stanford Law Review
• SMU Law Review
• South Texas Law Review
• St. Mary's Law Journal
• Texas Law Review
• Texas Review of Litigation
• Yale Law Journal

Oratory, Rhetoric, and Argumentation:

• American Rhetoric
• Aristotle's Rhetoric
• Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory
• Rhetoric and Composition
• Texas Supreme Court Oral Argument Recordings

Research and Study Guides:

• Cornell University Law Library
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• History of Law
• Public Law Library
• U.S. Supreme Court Media

Organizations and Associations:

• American Bar Association
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Federal Bar Association
• Houston Bar Association
• Houston Lawyer Referral Service
• State Bar of Texas
• State Bar of Texas - Appellate Section
• Texas Family Law Foundation

Law Book Dealers:

• Chicago University Press
• Hein
• Law Book Exchange
• Legal Classic Library
• LexisNexis
• Oxford University Press
• West Publishing