Events Calendar

All UT Law 1Ls are invited to a 4-hour workshop where Barbri's faculty of distinguished law professors will teach you how to:

Effectively manage your time during the exam Dissect exam fact patterns and questions Identify and frame relevant issues Apply our unique essay writing methodology Draft an A+ answer Conquer short answer and multiple-choice questions

Enjoy lunch with V&E attorneys afterwards. Admission is free, but space is limited. Register to receive course materials by email.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/07/64245/

Please join the Texas Federalist Society on Nov. 8 for "Inside the Department of Justice," as we host The Honorable Chad Readler, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and John Bash, Partner at Quinn Emanuel, for a discussion of their experiences at the Department of Justice.

Lunch will be served after the event.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/08/64845/

Presenters will share their strategies and approaches for managing their finances as a first-generation law student. Join us on Zoom here: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/96015710669

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/08/64925/

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Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/08/62425/

The Women's Law Caucus will be hosting a grab-n-go style breakfast for its members on Tuesday, November 9th from 8:30-9:30 AM in the Dee J. Kelly Courtyard. First come, first served! This event is exclusively for WLC members. If you're interested in joining WLC, please contact womenslawcaucus.utexas@gmail.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/09/64705/

Location:

TNH 2.137, followed by boxed lunches in the Courtyard

Sun will give a talk about her work, entitled “The Fight for Fair Elections,” and reflect on her career as a civil rights lawyer. Ranjana Natarajan of the Texas Law Civil Rights Clinic, who is currently Senior Counsel at the States United Democracy Center, will lead the Q&A.

Box lunches will be available in the courtyard (by the North Patio on the Dean Keeton Street side of the law school) immediately after the talk. Please RSVP for a lunch by noon on Monday, November 1: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lives-in-the-law-with-christine-sun-tickets-192357665957

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

Cosponsored by the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA), OUTLaw, Public Interest Law Association, and Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights.

About Christine Sun:

Christine P. Sun serves as the Legal Director at States United Democracy Center, a nonpartisan organization advancing free, fair, and secure elections, that was originally founded during the 2020 election as the Voter Protection Program. She provides legal services to pro-democracy state and local officials, including the offices of governors, attorneys general, and secretaries of states, on election protection, accountability for democracy violators, and political violence prevention.

Sun has worked on civil rights issues with a range of legal organizations. She was Special Assistant to the Attorney General of California Xavier Becerra, Legal and Policy Director of the ACLU of Northern California, and senior staff attorney at the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. Before moving to California, she was Deputy Legal Director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, where she directed SPLC’s economic justice work and work on behalf of the LGBT community. She also served as senior counsel for the national ACLU’s LGBT and AIDS Project, where she was lead counsel on numerous cases. She was recognized in 2010 by the National LGBT Bar Association as one of the “Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40.”

Sun graduated from New York University Law School. Immediately after law school, she clerked for Judge Robert L. Carter on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and then worked for several years in private practice.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/09/64225/

Please RSVP by Monday, November 8, on Symplicity. Zoom link will be sent before the event.

The State Bar of Texas Section of Taxation presents a discussion about various career opportunities available to attorneys in the area of tax law.

Panelist include:

Abbey Garber, Partner Holland and Knight, Dallas, State Bar of Texas Tax Section Council, and a former Area Counsel, IRS Office of Chief Counsel.

Mark Melton, Partner Holland and Knight, Dallas. Christi Mondrik, Mondrik and Associates – CPA and Past President of the State Bar of Texas Tax Section.

Brooke Stan, Senior Counsel, IRS Office of Chief Counsel, Austin.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/09/64425/

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/2021/11/09/61430/

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/2021/11/10/63011/

All 1Ls who are members of the TJOGEL Society are asked to join Katherine Harclerode, TJOGEL EIC, Bradley Potts, TJOGEL Managing Editor, and Lyle Paul, TJOGEL Society Directory, for a candid conversation about the law firm recruiting process. We will be discussing topics such as interviewing, screener calls, law firm receptions, call-back interviews, networking, and balancing law firm recruiting with studying for finals.

For more information on joining the TJOGEL Society, please email Lyle Paul at lrpaul@utexas.edu.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/10/64806/

Presenters will share their experiences as they navigated from being a first-generation law student/LLM to first-generation attorney. Join us on Zoom here: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/94354238996

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/10/64945/

Join us for a student-filled panel covering exams! 1Ls, bring your questions about how law school exams work. 2Ls, bring your questions about how in-person exams work, and 3Ls, come for a nice refresher. We will be providing food after the panel in the courtyard outside.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/10/64965/

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/2021/11/11/61114/

TMLS and Sidley Austin LLP welcome TMLS students to a panel discussion with a Grab and Go Lunch afterwards! Hope to see you there!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/11/63665/

It's finally time to welcome the 1Ls and 2Ls to the law school with our traditional Black's BBQ feast! 3Ls are warmly invited to join as well.

1Ls: 4:30 pm 2Ls: 5:30 pm 3Ls: 6 pm

Please RSVP online. Vegan and vegetarian options available by request.

Sponsored by Sidley Austin LLP.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/11/63445/

The Texas Space Law & Policy Society will host its Fall General Meeting on November 11, 2021 at 7:00pm in TNH 2.138. We will hold a special election to select a new Treasurer, give information about upcoming events, and discuss issues at the intersection of space, policy, and the law!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/11/64905/

Society 1L Breakfast

From 9:30a-10:30a: Hargrave 1.2; Bradford 1.4/1.5; Green 3.1; Sutton 3.4; Sheffield (all); Cadena (all)

From 10:30a-11:30a: Hargrave 1.1; Bradford 1.3; Hodges (all); Martinez (all); Green 3.2; Sutton 3.3; Sutton 3.5

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/12/62307/

The Center for Women in Law will host a Perspectives Series event: A Conversation with FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams and Arleas Upton Kea, ’82, Deputy to the Chairman for External Affairs, FDIC

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/12/63585/

The Texas Law chapter of the American Constitution Society is excited to be hosting a live taping of the Strict Scrutiny podcast over Zoom for Texas Law students and the ACS Austin Lawyer Chapter Board. Professor Eskow, Co-Director of the Supreme Court Clinic here at Texas Law, will also join the podcast for a discussion on Ramirez v. Collier. There will be an on-campus watch party for students who want to gather during the podcast. The taping will be followed by a Q & A with the podcast hosts and lunch on George's Patio.

If you would like to RSVP for lunch, use this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhlCFfsLr68OtXrUsOgWO93O18Th_uicy2ADOUM8UxeAxU6A/viewform

If you can't make it but would like to watch virtually, use this link to register: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b_8Ai4-FS_6j1vI4RcLmKg

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/12/64986/

We wanted to introduce a series of events that LS4BL hosts in partnership with ACS called our Alternative Curriculum Racial Justice Series. This series was created especially for 1Ls, and it's one filled with professor networking, lively discussions, and fun prizes.

These are hour-long discussions attempting to integrate principles of racial justice into the 1L core curriculum. The discussions seek not only to shed light on the extent of the permeation of racial inequalities in every aspect of the law, but to equip law students with the necessary tools to speak up in class, ponder hard topics, and work to change the culture of our law school curriculum at large.

Each discussion is centered on one of the six 1L courses and is facilitated by a professor who is both knowledgeable in the subject and demonstrates a commitment to racial justice. Note: Every attendee will be entered into a drawing to receive a free LS4BL t-shirt and gift card! The more sessions you attend, the more entries you receive for the drawing!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/12/63067/

1L students will be provided a sample exam question to work. This session is an opportunity to use the exam software (Extegrity's Exam4) in a testing atmosphere. It is also a chance to work on one of the best exam prep methods: doing practice questions.

Section 1: TNH 2.137 Section 2: TNH 2.138 Section 3: TNH 2.139 Section 4: TNH 2.140

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/12/63025/

APALSA is hosting an Indian dinner to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, traditionally celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and some Buddhists. Open to all, RSVP required.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/12/62866/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/15/64586/

Join TMLS and Husch Blackwell for a panel on how to succeed in your summer program! Boxed lunch will be provided afterwards!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/15/64725/

Join FGLS in listening to Ali Gallagher, UT Law alumn and first-generation lawyer, discuss how humans think and learn! Engage with Ali to discuss how we use certain defense mechanisms in different situations and how this applies to law school, the workplace, and life overall.

Lunch will be provided afterward.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/15/64985/

Speaker Alyssa Battistoni: “Climate Futures and the Future of Work: Rethinking “Green Jobs,” Revaluing Care Work”

Instructions for joining the zoom meeting: Please note that registration is required for the Zoom webinar: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEodOGuqj8rG9OuDTFOnaEOnH_Xl-hXY4JI

You will need to sign in with the same email account that you used to register for the program. If you have difficulty registering, please contact sabrina.barton@austin.utexas.edu

If you do not have a Zoom account, you may watch this event on our YouTube channel:

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/15/61588/

TJOGEL Society members can stop by from 8:00am-9:00am to talk with lawyer representatives from a law firm and for some coffee and breakfast. The lawyers will be available to discuss their practice areas and firm.

This event is only open to TJOGEL Society members who have paid their dues. Please contact the TJOGEL Managing Editor, Bradley Potts, at managingeditor@tjogel.org for more information on how to join the TJOGEL Society.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/16/64368/

Part of the 1L Law Firm Application and Mock Interview Program, which is a two-step program that allows 1Ls to submit their resume to participating law firms and corporations for possible summer 2022 clerkship opportunities, as well as sign up for mock interviews with practicing attorneys. We hope this simplified system will allow you more time to study for finals and less time and effort in applying to larger firms.

Application Program | You may submit your resume (and cover letter if applicable) to all participating employers of interest to you beginning at noon on Tuesday, October 26, through noon on Monday, November 9. Resume books will be made available to employers on Monday, November 15, 2021.

Mock Interview Program | You may schedule up to two mock interviews beginning at noon on Tuesday, October 26, through noon on Monday, November 1. Be sure to sign up early as interviews are available on a first-come, first-served basis. If space permits, we will open additional slots on November 2.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/16/64246/

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/2021/11/16/61431/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/16/63246/

Come join PILA for caffeine, snacks, and affirmations! We know the semester is getting crazy, and we want to give our members a chance to relax, breathe, be outside, and decompress! Come hang with us Tuesday night for a short and sweet study break!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/16/64785/

Please join the Texas Federalist Society as we host Erin Hawley, senior legal fellow at the Independent Women's Law Center and senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, and Michael Gentithes, associate professor at the University of Akron, for a discussion of the role precedent should play in judicial decision-making.

The first 50 Texas Law students to register will receive a $10 redemption code for DoorDash to enjoy a meal during the event.

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/LU7VDxkaNZWiQpsu7

Note: Registration is not required to attend any of the Texas Federalist Society's virtual events this semester; it is only required for each event if you would like to make use of the DoorDash discount.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/16/65085/

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/2021/11/17/63012/

Part of the 1L Law Firm Application and Mock Interview Program, which is a two-step program that allows 1Ls to submit their resume to participating law firms and corporations for possible summer 2022 clerkship opportunities, as well as sign up for mock interviews with practicing attorneys. We hope this simplified system will allow you more time to study for finals and less time and effort in applying to larger firms.

Application Program | You may submit your resume (and cover letter if applicable) to all participating employers of interest to you beginning at noon on Tuesday, October 26, through noon on Monday, November 9. Resume books will be made available to employers on Monday, November 15, 2021.

Mock Interview Program | You may schedule up to two mock interviews beginning at noon on Tuesday, October 26, through noon on Monday, November 1. Be sure to sign up early as interviews are available on a first-come, first-served basis. If space permits, we will open additional slots on November 2.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/17/64247/

A panel of 3Ls and 2Ls who are BigLaw-bound will have a candid discussion with 1Ls and other fellow law students about how folks can live their progressive values while still going into BigLaw. Firm Pro Bono, considerations when comparing firms, and the realities of firm work/clients will be discussed, with time for questions at the end. Food will be provided after the event.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/17/64988/

2021 John C. Akard Lecture: Modular Bankruptcy: Is It Time for a Consumer Scheme of Arrangement?

The John C. Akard Distinguished Lectureship will be delivered by John A. E. Pottow. Pottow, the John Philip Dawson Collegiate Professor of Law, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of commercial law. His award-winning scholarship concentrates on the issues involved in the regulation of cross-border insolvencies as well as consumer financial distress, and his extensive public service work focuses on international trade and pro bono representation of bankrupt debtors. To RSVP for the Lecture go bit.ly/2021Akard.

The John C. Akard Distinguished Lectureship Program was endowed by the generous gifts of many members of the Texas bankruptcy bar in honor of Judge John C. Akard (retired), a 1957 UT Law graduate who served with great distinction for 14 years as the U.S. Bankruptcy Judge in the Northern District of Texas, sitting in Lubbock and throughout much of West Texas. The first Akard Lecture was delivered in 2001 by Professor Elizabeth Warren of Harvard Law School, and formerly of The University of Texas School of Law.

In 2021 The John C. Akard Distinguished Lectureship Program received a special gift of support from the family of William Denny "Bill" Neary. The total grant to the law school was a very generous $100,000, of which half was designated for the Akard lectureship. Bill graduated from Hillcrest High School, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Texas Law School. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, was the case note editor of the Law Review and the Orders of the Coif, Chancellors and Phi Delta Phi. He served as a Lieutenant in the US Navy in the office of Naval Petroleum Reserve in Washington, D.C. and was a partner in the firm of Thompson & Knight for 40 years where he headed the Bankruptcy Section and retired in 1990. On behalf of the University of Texas School of Law, the Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Faculty and Planning Committee, we want to thank the Neary Family for their generous gift to the Lectureship program.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/17/64805/

Part of the 1L Law Firm Application and Mock Interview Program, which is a two-step program that allows 1Ls to submit their resume to participating law firms and corporations for possible summer 2022 clerkship opportunities, as well as sign up for mock interviews with practicing attorneys. We hope this simplified system will allow you more time to study for finals and less time and effort in applying to larger firms.

Application Program | You may submit your resume (and cover letter if applicable) to all participating employers of interest to you beginning at noon on Tuesday, October 26, through noon on Monday, November 9. Resume books will be made available to employers on Monday, November 15, 2021.

Mock Interview Program | You may schedule up to two mock interviews beginning at noon on Tuesday, October 26, through noon on Monday, November 1. Be sure to sign up early as interviews are available on a first-come, first-served basis. If space permits, we will open additional slots on November 2.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/18/64248/

Did you know that practicing gratitude can increase well-being and life satisfaction? When we pause to reflect upon the things we're thankful for, we experience more positive emotions, feel more alive, sleep better, express more compassion and kindness, and even have stronger immune systems.

Join SAO and SBA for our annual celebration of gratitude: Peace of Pie! Write a thank you note (or two or three) to someone at the law school you're grateful for, and we'll thank you with a slice of pie! We will take care of delivering the notes.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/18/64405/

TMLS welcomes its 1L members to attend an Academic Session to discuss the best practices for taking exams! Boxed lunch will be served afterwards!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/18/63425/

Texas Talks serves as a chance for 1Ls to connect with a variety of employers in a virtual environment to learn more about their organization and the practice of law. More than 60 employers in both the private and public sectors will be attending. Each participating employer will have one or more virtual rooms, hosting up to three students at a time in 15-minute video chat sessions.

Sign up on Flo Recruit is on a first-come, first-served basis starting at noon on Thursday, November 4, through noon on Wednesday, November 17, 2021. 1Ls will be asked to upload a resume upon registration so employers may view it during the Talks.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/19/64665/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/19/64846/

Join TMLS outside on the Breezeway Patio for our last General Body Meeting of the semester. Bring your favorite Thanksgiving dish to celebrate with a Friendsgiving Potluck!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/19/63107/