Events Calendar

Immigration attorney Rachel Tiven will speak from 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. on “Personal Pride and Overcoming Prejudice: What Can the LGBT and Immigrant Rights Movements Teach Each Other?” From 12:45-1:45 p.m., she’ll meet more informally with students to discuss about her life in the law. Attend one or both sessions. Lunch served at 12:45.

Rachel B. Tiven is the Executive Director of Immigrant Justice Corps, the nation’s first fellowship program dedicated to meeting the need for high-quality legal assistance for immigrants seeking citizenship and fighting deportation. From 2005-2013, Ms. Tiven led Immigration Equality, a national non-profit organization fighting for equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV-positive immigrants and asylum seekers. Under her leadership, Immigration Equality built a $17 million pro bono program, quintupled client services to aid more than 5,000 people annually, and succeeded in changing the U.S. immigration system for LGBT and HIV-positive people. Ms. Tiven is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College and Columbia Law School. Before becoming a lawyer she worked at Bloomberg Business News and Lambda Legal. As a lawyer, she represented immigrant clients at the Legal Aid Society of New York and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Barbara S. Jones in the Southern District of New York. She is a recipient of Columbia’s Public Interest Law Foundation award, and was named one of the Advocate magazine’s 40 under 40.

For more information about Ms. Tiven, see http://justicecorps.org/our-team/

RSVP by Monday, March 28, on Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

Hosted by the Career Services Office and the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law.

Attorneys will discuss their energy law practice over lunch with TJOGEL members.

Women's Law Caucus and Center for Women in Law Lunch panel with professionals who have all taken non-traditional career paths made possible with their JD degree.

Dean Bangs and Brandi Welch will be available in the Atrium the week of March 28 from noon-1pm for academic advising questions. Students are also welcome to drop by the SAO in TNH 2.117 with advising questions.

Show Me Challenge-Team Practice for mock trial competition

Join the Environmental Law Society and the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund for a tlak on endangered species issues in Texas and water law with UT Law's Professor Taylor and National Wildlife Federation's Annie Kellough

Attorney and UT Law grad Annie Kellough will discuss NWF's legal and policy work, the impacts of the TAP case (The Aransas Project v. TCEQ involving the death of whooping cranes), and endangered species issues in Texas.

The end of the talk will be open for career and substantive questions. Annie will also discuss getting involved in environmental law in law school as a way to begin your career in the field.