Make Your Reservations for the 2000

Fall Harvest Party

Benefiting the Houston Bar Foundation

November 13, 2000   7-10 P.M.   River Oaks Country Club

 The Houston Bar Association's grand fall social event, the Harvest
Party, is also the Association's major fund-raising event for the Houston
Bar Foundation. Don't miss the opportunity to join your friends and
colleagues in the legal profession for an elegant evening at River Oaks
Country Club on Monday, November 13, 2000, from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m.

 The entire country club has been reserved for HBA members and their
guests. As always, the Harvest Party will feature fine refreshments,
surroundings, and the company of your colleagues in the legal profession.
More than 1,200 persons attended last year's gala event. This year's Harvest
Party Chair is Tom Godbold of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

The Houston Bar Foundation supports such crucial projects as the Houston
Volunteer Lawyers Program, providing pro bono legal services to indigent
Houstonians in civil matters.

 Tickets for the 51st Harvest Party are $62.50 per person. Send your
check payable to the Houston Bar Foundation, along with the names of all
attending in your party, to Harvest Party, Houston Bar Foundation, 1001
Fannin, Suite 1300, Houston, TX 77002 no later than 5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov.
9.

For information call Rusty Bienvenue or Kelly Isenberger at 713-759-1133.


The Harvest Party is graciously underwritten by the following firms and
corporations:

Gold Underwriters
Andrews & Kurth, L.L.P.
Baker Botts L.L.P.
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.

Platinum Underwriters
Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P.

Silver Underwriters
Locke Liddell & Sapp L.L.P.

Diamond Underwriters
American General
BP Amoco
Helm, Pletcher, Bowen & Saunders
   L.L.P.
Howrey Simon Arnold & White
Mayor, Day, Caldwell & Keeton,
   L.L.P.
Ocean Energy
Southwest Bank
Williams Gas
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP

Bronze Underwriters
Arthur Andersen LLP
Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P.
Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, L.L.P.
Compaq Computer Corp.
Duke Energy
Enron
Ernst & Young
Gardere Wynne Sewell & Riggs
Gibbs & Bruns LLP
Hanen, Alexander, Johnson &
  Spalding, L.L.P.
Hardy & Johns PC
King & Spalding
Lanier Parker & Sullivan P.C.
LeBoeuf Lamb Green & MacRae
   L.L.P.
Reliant Energy
Ridgway's Legal Solutions
Sheinfeld, Maley & Kay P.C.
Shell Oil Co. Foundation
Susman Godfrey LLP

Crystal Underwriters
Abraham Watkins Nichols Sorrels Matthews and Friend
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &
   Feld LLP
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Campbell, Harrison & Wright L.L.P.
Chevron
Coats Rose Yale Holm Ryman &
   Lee P.C.
Conley, Rose & Tayon, P.C.
Crowley & Douglas LLP
Doyle Rider Restrepo Harvin &
   Robbins, L.L.P.
Dunn, Kacal, Adams, Pappas &
   Law, P.C.
Franklin Cardwell & Jones
Germer, Bernsen & Gertz, L.L.P.
Greenberg Peden Siegmyer & Oshman P.C.
Haynes and Boone LLP
Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Mattheisen, Chase & Erwin L.L.P.
McGlinchey Stafford P.L.L.C.
Porter & Hedges, L.L.P.
Schwartz, Junell, Campbell &
   Oathout, L.L.P.
Sheehy, Serpe & Ware, P.C.
Solar & Associates
Tindall & Foster  P.C.
Tucker Hendryx Taunton Snyder &
    Slade P.C.
Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.
Zimmerman, Axelrad, Meyer, Stern
    & Wise, P.C.

Friend
Cruse, Scott, Henderson &
   Allen, L.L.P.
J. Richard Cheney