Events Calendar

The Texas Law Alumni Association's Townes Hall Morning Coffee will kick off on Monday, January 28th, through the spring semester. Open to all students every Monday morning! Please bring your favorite travel mug (we are going green, so no paper products will be provided) and enjoy FREE coffee every Monday morning to start your week off right on behalf of the Alumni Association. Coffee will be located at one, large stations located near the 1L Classrooms (by TNH 2.140, TNH 2.319) beginning at 8:45am until it's gone, so get there early!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/08/44255/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/08/44127/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/08/43768/

Horst Eidenmueller from Oxford University will be the guest speaker at today's meeting of the Business Law Seminar, hosted by Professors James Spindler and Mira Ganor.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/08/44708/

KBH Center Distinguished Lecture with Stephanie Reed, Parsley Energy

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/09/45768/

Texas Law Alumna Tara Ross will discuss the Electoral College's past, present, and future with Professor Levinson.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/09/43005/

Learn about how to maximize your public service summer internship from a panel of students who have completed public service internships.

Lunch will be served after the program. RSVP by Monday, April 8 on Symplicity by clicking on the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/09/43265/

Interested in starting your own law firm and access to justice--come learn about the Texas Opportunity and Justice Incubator (TOJI). TOJI provides office space and training for a select group of new attorneys who want to build their own practices. During their 18-month participation in the incubator, these attorneys agree to represent low- and modest-income clients while receiving mentorship and training in how to run a law office with a focus on technology.

Panelists include Courtney Giesinger, '09 , Anne-Marie Rábago, & Carl Guthrie, '17.

Lunch will be served. RSVP by Monday, April 8 on Symplicity under the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/09/44407/

Jump start your bar study! This bar essay writing workshop is optional for 3Ls and LLMs planning to take the bar exam. This training is designed to acclimate students to the specific format needed to write bar essays. In each session, students will write a practice essay (no background substantive knowledge required) and will receive feedback before the next session.

You need to learn a great deal of substantive law in summer; learn and adopt this writing skill now.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/09/45169/

Lara Bazelon will discuss her book:

Rectify, The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction

Tuesday, April 9 12 pm‐1:30 pm TNH 1.324

Lara Bazelon is a law professor, author, and contributing writer for Slate. She has also written for the New York Times,Washington Post, and Politico, among other media outlets.

Lunch will be served. All are welcome.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/09/45727/

Please join the Budd Innocence Center for a speaker lunch with Lara Bazelon as she discusses her book: Rectify, The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction.

Lunch will be served and all are welcome.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/09/45825/

McKool Smith invites all 1L students to join them for breakfast tacos in the Law School Atrium. Attorney and recruiting personnel will be in attendance to answer questions about the firm on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Be sure to stop by on your way to class.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/10/45807/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/10/43508/

Stop by Jamail Pavilion and join members of the Dell Legal Team for lunch and conversation.

Attorneys with expertise in commercial and corporate law, intellectual property, and litigation will be on hand to discuss opportunities and challenges in the corporate environment, in-house legal work, and general advice for young and soon-to-be lawyers.

Dell Legal will also be on hand to promote the 2nd Annual Dell Diversity Scholarship, awarded to two Texas Law minority students and/or students of color. Current 1L and 2L students are eligible to apply for the scholarship which awards $5,000 to the each recipient and provides opportunities for mentorship from a Dell attorney and a visit to the Dell campus.

Please feel free to come and go as your schedule allows!

All Texas Law students are welcome!

Please RSVP on Symplicity (https://law-utexas-csm.symplicity.com/students/).

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/10/45227/

Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to speak on “Latino and Immigrant Rights in the Trump Era.”

Lunch available at 11:45

Co-sponsored by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice

Student Organization Cosponsors: American Constitution Society, Chicano/Hispanic Law Students Association

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/10/45705/

Students will help Medicaid recipients obtain medically-necessary treatment through the fair hearing administrative process. The project involves two workshops, and student volunteers must attend both workshops. In the first workshop, students will review evidence packets and interview clients and/or their families, then prepare an evidence index for their reviewed case. In the second workshop, students will draft letters of medical necessity. Disability Rights Texas attorneys and pro bono attorney volunteers will be on-hand to provide supervision and live advice and feedback on drafting.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/10/45745/

Women's Bible study at the law school. This semester we will be studying "Finding I Am." This event occurs every other Thursday from 8:00 am to 9:00 am. Coffee and breakfast will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/11/44008/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/11/39165/

Brown Rudnick LLP invites all 1L students to join them for a lunch snack in the Law School Atrium. Attorney and recruiting personnel will be in attendance to answer questions about the firm on Thursday, April 11, 2019. Be sure to stop by on your way to class.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/11/44589/

Jump start your bar study! This bar essay writing workshop is optional for 3Ls and LLMs planning to take the bar exam. This training is designed to acclimate students to the specific format needed to write bar essays. In each session, students will write a practice essay (no background substantive knowledge required) and will receive feedback before the next session.

You need to learn a great deal of substantive law in summer; learn and adopt this writing skill now.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/11/45170/

On April 11, 2019, join the Institute for Transnational Law for a lecture on the different dimensions (law, ethics, politics) involved in justifying the use of force in international affairs. Dr. Schmidt is a Lecturer in International Relations at Swansea University and a Fellow at the LSE, working on ethics and politics of international law and institutions. He has been awarded a 2019 Texas Collaboration Fund Award for joint research on international criminal law institutions with The University of Texas at Austin and Rice University.

Lunch will be served.

Registration required

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/11/45545/

Join the Institute for Transnational Law for a book talk by Heidi K. Brown, Director of Legal Research & Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Professor Brown will discuss her recent book, The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy. Professor Brown will talk for 45-50 minutes, and then save time for questions.

MCLE credit hours are being requested. Professor Brown has previously been approved for 60 minutes of CLE, no ethics credits. Additional information coming soon.

After the talk, the Institute will host a reception in the Jamail Pavilion, adjacent to the Eidman Courtroom. Refreshments will be served.

Registration is required. RSVP link coming soon.

About the Book:

While naturally loquacious law professors, law students, lawyers, and judges thrive in a world dominated by the Socratic question-and-answer method and rapid-fire oral discourse, quiet thinkers and writers can be sidelined. The Introverted Lawyer illuminates the valuable gifts that introverted, shy, and socially anxious individuals bring to the legal profession—including active listening, deep thinking, empathy, impactful legal writing, creative problem-solving, and thoughtful communication. This presentation also provides a practical seven-step process for amplifying our voices in an authentic manner when we need to make ourselves heard in the legal arena.

About Heidi K. Brown:

Professor Brown joined Brooklyn Law School as Director of the Legal Writing Program in 2016. A prolific scholar and author on the importance of legal writing, she has published four books on predictive and persuasive legal writing and federal litigation, as well as numerous scholarly articles for law journals. In 2017, she published her fifth book, The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy. Inspired by her own experience conquering the fear of public speaking during her litigation career, she is passionate about helping law students and lawyers “find their authentic lawyer voices” and overcome anxiety about Socratic legal discourse.

Prior to joining the Law School, Brown served as Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School, where she helped launch the school’s Legal Practice program. Before that, she was an Associate Professor of Legal Research and Writing at the Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law in Orange, California.

Brown has more than two decades of experience in law practice. She served as Of Counsel with Moore & Lee, LLP, a boutique litigation firm with offices in the Washington, D.C., area and New York City, where she handled all aspects of litigation and arbitration of complex construction contract and building development disputes. She specialized in brief writing for state and federal cases throughout the United States, and mentored the firm’s junior associates in civil procedure, litigation strategy, and legal writing. Before that, she was an associate at the Manhattan firm of Thacher, Proffitt & Wood and at the Washington, D.C., area firm Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP.

In 2014, Brown was appointed to the Fulbright Specialist Roster, making her eligible for two international teaching grants in the next five years through the J. William Fulbright Scholars Program. She studies Italian and has taught legal writing at the University of Trento in Italy. She received her bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs and French litera

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/11/45105/

Join Dean Farnsworth for coffee and informal conversation in the Tom Clark Lounge!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/11/45208/

OUTLaw's first in a while banquet! For more information, email outlaw.txlaw@gmail.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/11/45806/

Learn more about internship and postgraduate opportunities with the Air Force JAG Program from Captain Dayna Cheek.

Lunch will be served. RSVP by Thursday, April 11, on Symplicity by clicking on the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/12/45765/

It’s time for one of If/When/How's biggest events of the year: Sexy Sex Ed Trivia! This is a free event with a raffle benefiting the Lilith Fund. Who: Your beautiful selves and all of your friends (non-law school friends included!) What: Trivia! We’ll quiz you on what you learned about sex in sex-ed class, from pop culture, and from studying the law. When: Friday April 12th — doors open at 6 and trivia starts at 6:30 Where: Black Star Co-op (7020 Easy Wind Dr, Austin, TX 78752) RSVP to the FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2690317657651250/?notif_t=plan_user_associated&notif_id=1554472877539700

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/12/45827/

Reunion 2019

Reunion 2019 is April 12-13, 2019 and honors classes whose years end in "4" and "9". All Texas Law alumni are encouraged to attend the festivities.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/13/41405/