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Beryl P. Crowley is the Managing Director in Major, Lindsey & Africa's Austin office. She received her BA from Mills College in Oakland, CA and her JD from The University of Texas School of Law. Berry was admitted to the Texas Bar in 1972 and the US Supreme Court Bar in 2002. Her first twenty-two years in practice were spent in a law firm setting as a partner with a general office practice at Jackson Walker, formerly Small, Craig & Werkenthin of Austin. Over the next twelve plus years Berry served in a non-profit bar-related education setting, as Executive Director of The Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism. She built the center into the premier organization of its kind in the United States, and created and developed innovative legal ethics and professionalism programs.
Berry is experienced working with lawyers, judges and courts throughout the state and country, including working directly with the state Supreme Court on several initiatives. A popular and highly rated speaker, author and lecturer, Berry has written numerous articles for legal periodicals and journals, and is the editor of two books on ethics and professionalism topics.
Berry has spent a good portion of her career in many volunteer capacities for the organized bar, having been elected the first female president of the Texas Young Lawyers Association in 1983. She has been Chairman of the Texas Bar Foundation, Chairman of the Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation, and chairman of numerous State Bar of Texas Committees. Berry spends her spare time volunteering on non-profits in Austin, as Chairman of the Women's Advocacy Project (a group which furnishes direct legal services to victims of domestic violence), and as a board member on KLRU (central Texas' PBS station) and Zachary Scott Theater. Not content to concentrate her volunteer activities at home, she is a member of the Council of the ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section, and is a delegate from the Austin Bar to the American Bar Association House of Delegates.
Her hobbies and interests include theater, reading, traveling, and outdoor activities. Her proudest achievements are her five children and four grandchildren, who fondly call her Grandberry! | 