[AUSTIN, TX]—The Hay Legal Group PLLC has signed on as an Event Sponsor for the Real Estate Council of Austin’s 2012 Gardner-Betts Art Show and Silent Auction to be held on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. in the lobby of the San Jacinto Center, 98 San Jacinto Blvd.

The Event, hosted by the RECA, directly benefits Project Bridge, the art and music enrichment component of the Gardner-Betts Juvenile Justice Center’s Leadership Academy. Project Bridge, which is entirely funded by RECA, pays for art and music teachers from the Austin Lyric Opera, as well as supplies for the coming year. The participants in the program qualify for placement by agreeing to attend classes, perform chores, participate in counseling sessions, and work to better themselves as individuals.

The Leadership Academy is a sentencing alternative for juvenile offenders who have been sentenced to the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) to serve their sentence in Travis County rather than being incarcerated at one of the TYC facilities around the state.

The Hay Legal Group PLLC is truly a Texas law firm, with its principal office in the historic Pierre Bremond house, located at 402 W. 7th Street, Austin, Texas 78701. Founded in 2010, the Firm was honored by the Austin Young Chamber of Commerce as Austin’s “Favorite Professional Services Company” for 2012.

The Hay Group is a diverse law firm and maintains an active fee office for the State’s largest title company of its kind, Independence Title Company. The Firm offers a full range of legal services and counseling in the areas of real estate, construction, development, title insurance, mortgage lending, mortgage document preparation, commercial banking, general business, outside counsel, entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, oil and gas, energy, trademark, copyright, administrative, regulatory compliance, family, and general and commercial litigation.