Events Calendar

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/

On Monday, November 22, the Strauss Center will welcome Commissioner Noah Phillips, Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission, for a talk on big tech, privacy, and national security.

Biography Following his nomination by President Donald J. Trump and unanimous confirmation by the United States Senate, Noah Joshua Phillips was sworn in as a Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission on May 2, 2018. Before coming to the FTC, Phillips served as Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator John Cornyn, of Texas, on the Senate Judiciary Committee. From 2011 to 2018, he advised Senator Cornyn on legal and policy matters including antitrust, constitutional law, consumer privacy, fraud, and intellectual property. Prior to his Senate service, Phillips worked as a litigator at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, in New York City, and Steptoe & Johnson LLP, in Washington, D.C. Phillips began his career at Wasserstein Perella & Co., an investment bank in New York City. Phillips received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/22/64545/

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Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/22/62407/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/23/61848/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/23/63247/

Assistant Dean Elizabeth Bangs invites you to join her for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings at the Law School!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/11/25/63725/