— The Texas Bar Foundation has awarded a $12,000 grant supporting the 2025 Texas Elder Justice Coalition Summit, a gathering of frontline professionals confronting the crisis of elder fraud and financial exploitation, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 10, 2025 at the Amon Carter Event Center at Lena Pope in Fort Worth.
Since its inception in 1965, the Texas Bar Foundation has awarded more than $29 million in grants to law-related programs. Supported by members of the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Bar Foundation is the nation’s largest charitably-funded bar foundation. This year’s Summit features a powerful lineup of speakers and experts, including keynote speaker Dave Lieber, “The Watchdog” columnist for The Dallas Morning News; Detective Jeff Prater, member of the Colleyville Police Department Special Investigations Unit and the U.S. Secret Service Cyber Crimes Task Force; Assistant District Attorneys from both Tarrant and Dallas Counties; and experts from the Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General. Topics will include: The state of fraud and financial exploitation Best practices for financial institutions: identifying, preventing, and reporting these crimes Realities of prosecuting financial exploitation in Texas Federal, state, and local resources Strategies to safeguard Texas’ growing older population.
The complete Summit program is available at: https://TxElderJustice.org/event/TEJC-Summit-2025