There is only one legal aid program in Texas whose pro bono attorney programs and or their volunteer attorneys have received 23 state and national awards for recognition for outstanding services.

There is only one legal aid program in Texas whose pro bono programs have resulted in tens of millions of dollars of donated legal services to needy Texas families in the last two decades.

There is only one legal aid program in Texas whose pro bono programs works directly with over two dozen bar associations in providing civil legal services to the poor in Texas.

That one legal aid program is Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas.

Recipient of the following Awards:

1988 State Bar Pro Bono Award to Neighborhood Legal Clinics
1992 Legal Services Corporation Urban Private Attorney Involvement Award
1992 State Bar of Texas Pro Bono Award- San Angelo PAI Program
1993 State Bar of Texas Pro Bono Award- Fort Worth PAI Program
1996 State Bar of Texas Pro Bono Award for excellence in pro bono legal services
1997 National Association of Pro Bono Coordinators of the Year Award- Ft. Worth
1998 ABA Harrison Tweed Award for excellence in pro bono legal services
1998 State Bar of Texas Pro Bono Award –Lubbock PAI Program
1999 State Bar of Texas Partnership Award to DBA & LANWT
2000 State Bar of Texas Pro Bono Award for excellence in pro bono legal services
2000 Star of Texas Award for Pro Se Divorce Program
2002 State Bar of Texas Outstanding Partnership Award presented to the Dallas Bar Association for its partnership with LANWT

Recognition of Volunteers with Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas Pro Bono Programs

1984 State Bar Scurlock Pro Bono Award to Judge Merrill Hartman
1986 State Bar Scurlock Pro Bono Award to Ellen Smith Pryor
1987 State Bar Scurlock Pro Bono Award to Penny Parker
1988 ABA Pro Bono of Year Award to Penny Parker
1990 State Bar Scurlock Pro Bono Award to Parker Wilson
1996 State Bar Newton Pro Bono Award to Carrington Coleman Sloman & Blumenthal
1997 State Bar Newton Pro Bono Award to JCPenny Corporation
2000 and 2001 State Bar of Texas Outstanding Pro Bono Attorneys, Diane Couchman and Stephen Linn, respectively

Recipient of Awards to Community Partners working with Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas Pro Bono Programs

1996 State Bar Pro Bono Award to DBA Volunteer Attorney Program 1991 State Bar Pro Bono Award to Lawyers Against Domestic Violence
2001 State Bar of Texas Pro Bono Award for the Landlord/Tenant Workshops of the Housing Crisis Center