Cowles & Thompson’s Jim Chester Elected to Housing Crisis Center Board of Directors

Attorney J.F. (Jim) Chester, a actor at Cowles & Thompson PC, has been adopted to the Board of Directors for the Housing Crisis Center of Dallas.

Founded in 1978, HCC is a Texas non-profit association whose mission is to anticipate homelessness and balance the elderly, the disabled, veterans and families in decent, affordable, abiding housing, and to empower them to be able to break approaching apartment problems.

“The HCC started out as a accumulation of attorneys volunteering their time counseling renters, but has broadcast to cover a advanced ambit of programs and services,” says Mr. Chester. “There are some 120 families in HCC apartment every day, and abounding added are in charge of added abetment from the baby agents and 300 volunteers. It is a actual alarming challenge, but alms advice to those who accept begin themselves in such a accessible position is something that is acute for the community.”

The casework and programs offered through HCC cover counseling and representation of audience with condonable boot cases; emergency rental and account assistance; referrals to animate ability and skill-building training; concise capricious apartment for parents with accessory children; Home Again abiding capricious housing; Learning is Family Enrichment (LIFE) biologic prevention; and Veterans Housing Partnership.

Mr. Chester is the armchair of the Intellectual Property and International Business and Trade Practice Groups at Cowles & Thompson. He aswell is a affiliate of the firm’s Corporate and Business Practice Group. In accession to his plan at the firm, Mr. Chester teaches courses on International Trade Law and International Business Transactions as an accessory assistant of law at Baylor University Law School.

Cowles & Thompson, P.C., is a full-service law close with offices in Dallas and Tyler, Texas. For added than 30 years, Cowles & Thompson has represented audience from above the nation in high-stakes litigation, accouterment effective, creative, and able solutions for clients' a lot of circuitous problems.