Events Calendar

To celebrate National Pro Bono Week, the Mithoff Program presents a talk by Steve Schulman, Pro Bono Partner at Akin Gump. 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.

Join the TJOGEL Society for a Roundtable Lunch with partners and associates from national law firms. Please RSVP via a form that will be sent out about a week before each Roundtable to TJOGEL Society Members.

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.

Happy Hour reception/ networking event to follow Transactional Skills Competition

We'll explore the benefits of a "law + technology" approach calling for computer scientists and lawyers to join forces and explore synergies.

In our last 101 session of the semester, we'll focus on how to prepare for exams. Keeping in mind that your study methods can/will change based on the course and professor, we'll discuss study strategies and how to approach preparing for exams.d

Join the TJOGEL Society for a Roundtable Lunch with partners and associates from national law firms. Please RSVP via a form that will be sent out about a week before each Roundtable to TJOGEL Society Members.

The Center for Women in Law will host a Susan L. Blount Power Lunch Series Lecture, A Conversation with Erin Nealy Cox, former U.S. Attorney and partner at Kirkland Ellis. She will be interview by Angela Styles, '94, partner at Akin Gump and former Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.

In our last 101 session of the semester, we'll focus on how to prepare for exams. Keeping in mind that your study methods can/will change based on the course and professor, we'll discuss study strategies and how to approach preparing for exams.

TJOGEL Society members can stop by from 8:00am-9:00am to talk with representatives from a law firm and for some coffee and breakfast.

Join the TJOGEL Society for a Roundtable Lunch with partners and associates from national law firms. Please RSVP via a form that will be sent out about a week before each Roundtable to TJOGEL Society Members.

Join LS4BL and renowned scholar Carlton E Williams as we parse through the relationship between movement lawyering, radicalism, and racial justice. We will also unpack the philosophy of what it truly means to be "radical," misconceptions/problems with the term, and how movement lawyering and radicalism may further the cause of Black liberation.