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Meet Bill Powers
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first of all in order to be board
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certified you have to have practice for
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at least five years as an attorney you
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have to have more than 25 percent of
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your practice in that particular area
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you’re going to get board certified in
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and then you have to have
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enough peers and enough judges
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who think that you are
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at a level
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that you qualify to be considered board
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certified
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you have to have handled a certain
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number of cases with certain amounts in
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controversy and or
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custody complex custody cases
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you have to have had some appellate work
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and some jury work
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and once you’ve got all that done and
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you qualify
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they make you take a test
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and if you take the test and pass it you
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get to be board certified i’d say the
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percentage of people who are board
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certified in family law in the state of
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texas is relatively low i don’t want to
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misstate what that percentage is but i
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know it’s probably less than five
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percent
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martindale hubble is the oldest
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directory that
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rates
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lawyers it’s a very
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esteemed
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institution it’s been doing it for years
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in martindale hubble
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the highest rating you can get is av
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rated
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i’ve been av rated for a long time
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and so at the end of the day
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to me that’s the one that matters the
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most there’s a group called super
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lawyers who also rate you
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i’ve been rated as a super lawyer for 10
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years
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kayvon and jamie are both rated as
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rising stars and
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once they’ve
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been in practice long enough
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they too will qualify
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uh to be considered as a super lawyer
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a v v
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o
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is a rating
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uh outfit that a client bases it on
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peers and clients and evaluations like
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that and
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all three of us have a rating above nine
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my rating’s 10 which is as high as you
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can get
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and any rating above nine is considered
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superb so that’s a little laundry list
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of some of the awards and accolades that
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we’ve been able to garner
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Austin, TX family law attorney Bill Powers shares what it means to be board-certified and discusses his honors, awards & credentials.
