Events Calendar

CHLSA's bi-annual fajita grilling fundraiser! Come hungry and join us right outside the atrium for a fajita feast! Food will be served from 11:45 AM until sold out.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/25/63185/

Open to 1Ls. Please RSVP by Sunday, October 24, on Symplicity. The Zoom link will be sent before the event.

Join us for this interactive workshop designed to prepare you to ace your upcoming legal interviews. You will hear common legal interview questions and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. You will leave the program with the tools and the confidence to help you prepare for and nail your interviews.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/25/64265/

Please RSVP by Sunday, October 24, on Symplicity.

Join us for this interactive workshop designed to prepare you to ace your upcoming legal interviews. You will hear common legal interview questions and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. You will leave the program with the tools and the confidence to help you prepare for and nail your interviews.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/25/64266/

Open to 1Ls. Please RSVP by Monday, October 25, on Symplicity.

Join us for this interactive workshop designed to prepare you to ace your upcoming legal interviews. You will hear common legal interview questions and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. You will leave the program with the tools and the confidence to help you prepare for and nail your interviews.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/26/64267/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/26/61849/

Please RSVP on Symplicity.

The Peggy Browning Fund, whose mission is to educate and inspire the next generation of law students to become advocates for workplace justice, is conducting a regional workshop about labor law and the career paths available. Panelists may include union lawyers, labor law firm attorneys, labor law professors, Peggy Browning Fellowship Alumni and attorneys from the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/26/63925/

Open to 1Ls. Please RSVP by Monday, October 25, on Symplicity.

Join us for this interactive workshop designed to prepare you to ace your upcoming legal interviews. You will hear common legal interview questions and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. You will leave the program with the tools and the confidence to help you prepare for and nail your interviews.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/26/64268/

Open to 1Ls. Please RSVP by Monday, October 25, on Symplicity.

Join us for this interactive workshop designed to prepare you to ace your upcoming legal interviews. You will hear common legal interview questions and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. You will leave the program with the tools and the confidence to help you prepare for and nail your interviews.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/26/64269/

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/26/62185/

It's election time, again! Austinites have many important constitutional amendments and local propositions on the ballot. Join the Graduate Student Agency and The Austin Common's Amy Stanfield to discuss all things elections-related! We'll be introducing students to their ballots and give a run-down of Props A & B so that everyone can feel prepared for the Nov. 2 election! This is a nonpartisan event, so come prepared with any and all questions!

Get the zoom link for this event here: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEudOyorjsuEtRyYCQYo4g_ZWgwIuxjtNLB

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/26/64525/

Foundation board meetings

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/27/60889/

Join us for our weekly time of Bible study, prayer, and fellowship. Light breakfast will be served.

In the event of rain, this event will be moved indoors to the Jury Room (CCJ 2.310).

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/27/63009/

Please join the Texas Federalist Society on Oct. 27 at 12pm in TNH 2.140 as we host affirmative action experts Cory Liu of the Ashcroft Law Firm and Professor Theodore M. Shaw of UNC School of Law for a debate and discussion about the Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College case.

Chick-fil-a sandwiches will be provided after the event!

If you're unable to attend in person, you're welcome to join the webinar at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88503734798

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/27/64505/

Large law firms continue to increase their pro bono commitments, delivering more than 5 million hours of free legal services annually, while profits and revenue continue to grow as well. How is this possible? Steven Schulman, Pro Bono Partner at Akin Gump, will discuss why he believes that the culture, structure and economics of large firms is uniquely situated to allow pro bono to thrive. Steven has been the Pro Bono Partner for Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld since 2006. He manages the firm’s world-wide pro bono practice, which devotes more than 100,000 hours annually to a range of clients, from non-profit organizations to individuals in need of protection.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/27/64085/

Open to 1Ls. Please RSVP by Tuesday, October 26, on Symplicity. The Zoom link will be sent before the event.

Join us for this interactive workshop designed to prepare you to ace your upcoming legal interviews. You will hear common legal interview questions and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. You will leave the program with the tools and the confidence to help you prepare for and nail your interviews.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/27/64285/

Foundation board meetings

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/28/60890/

On Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Fall semester, the Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law hosts a law firm for a roundtable lunch with interested TJOGEL Society members. At the roundtables, partners and associates visiting from the law firms will present on a wide variety of energy law topics for the first part of the lunch. Then, TJOGEL Society members will have the opportunity to ask questions about the presentation. Finally, at 12:40-12:45pm, we will go from JON 5.257 to the courtyard outside to give out lunches to the lawyers and student attendees. Students and the visiting lawyers can eat lunch and network. We expect to have a variety of both National and Texas-based law firms.

There is a limited number of spots for each Roundtable Luncheon. To sign up to attend a Roundtable, please sign up for the TJOGEL Society and look for an RSVP form about a week before the Roundtable Luncheon that you want to attend.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/28/61112/

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. If in doubt, verify with the web-based events calendar.

Join Porter Hedges and TMLS for a discussion on picking your practice group. Boxed lunches will be served afterwards!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/28/63086/

Open to 1Ls. Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 27, on Symplicity.

Join us for this interactive workshop designed to prepare you to ace your upcoming legal interviews. You will hear common legal interview questions and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. You will leave the program with the tools and the confidence to help you prepare for and nail your interviews.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/28/64286/

Open to 1Ls. Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 27, on Symplicity. Zoom link will be sent before the event

Join us for this interactive workshop designed to prepare you to ace your upcoming legal interviews. You will hear common legal interview questions and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. You will leave the program with the tools and the confidence to help you prepare for and nail your interviews.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/28/64287/

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. If in doubt, verify with the web-based events calendar.

To ensure the continuation of Sissy Farenthold’s legacy, this lecture series — in line with Sissy’s own history of exposing and responding to injustices and inequality as both a public servant and citizen — brings to Austin and Houston internationally renowned scholars and activists to inspire their audiences to think and act creatively to respond to some of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. The lecture is co-presented by, and alternates between, the Rapoport Center at UT-Austin and the Rothko Chapel in Houston. This year's lecture will take place at UT-Austin. More information coming soon!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/28/59945/

Foundation board meetings

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/29/60891/

Open to 1Ls. Please RSVP by Thursday, October 28, on Symplicity. Zoom link will be sent before the event.

Join us for this interactive workshop designed to prepare you to ace your upcoming legal interviews. You will hear common legal interview questions and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. You will leave the program with the tools and the confidence to help you prepare for and nail your interviews.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/29/64288/

NRF sponsored breakfast for 1Ls in Sheffield Society

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/29/62848/

Boxed lunches for 1L members of Society programs: Oct 15 -Green from 11-12:30 in the Courtyard; Oct 22: Sutton from 11-2 in the Courtyard; Nov 5:Cadena from 12:30-2 in the Courtyard

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/29/62369/

On the lawn on the south side of Susman Godfrey Atrium

Join us for a lunch celebrating National Pro Bono Week and Change It Up! 2021

Box lunches will be available from 12:30 to 2 pm. Faculty, staff and student hosts will reprise the Change It Up! breakout rooms in-person, outside from 1-1:30.

Bring a blanket to spread out on the lawn. Come picnic or visit “breakout room” tables, or both!

Please RSVP by October 20th at noon: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/185130449157

Hosted by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and the Mithoff Pro Bono Program

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/29/61966/

Open to 1Ls. Please RSVP by Thursday, October 28, on Symplicity.

Join us for this interactive workshop designed to prepare you to ace your upcoming legal interviews. You will hear common legal interview questions and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. You will leave the program with the tools and the confidence to help you prepare for and nail your interviews.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/29/64305/

Open to 1Ls. Please RSVP by Thursday, October 28, on Symplicity.

Join us for this interactive workshop designed to prepare you to ace your upcoming legal interviews. You will hear common legal interview questions and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. You will leave the program with the tools and the confidence to help you prepare for and nail your interviews.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/29/64306/

Open to 1Ls. Please RSVP by Thursday, October 28, on Symplicity.

Join us for this interactive workshop designed to prepare you to ace your upcoming legal interviews. You will hear common legal interview questions and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. You will leave the program with the tools and the confidence to help you prepare for and nail your interviews.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/29/64307/

This happy hour will follow the virtual program (the Texas Transactional Skills Competition). Student members of the Texas Business Law Society will have the opportunity to meet in person and network with attorneys from Big Law firms who helped judge the event. At this happy hour, we will also announce the winners of the competition, thank the firm sponsors for joining us, and briefly hear from Dean Farnsworth.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/10/30/63805/