Events Calendar

2 Domestic Violence Clinic students will staff the table to share information and displays. We also plan to display 6 paintings on the large wooden table, which we would like to be pushed against the wall. We may bring 2 small easels with posters also.

Join TJOGEL and a sponsor law firm for coffee and breakfast to chat and network.

Swing by the atrium to meet Haynes and Boone attorneys and grab a free breakfast taco! Tacos will be provided from 8:45 am until they run out -- first come, first served. Two attorneys from the Haynes and Boone Austin office will be there until 10:30 am.

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.

Please RSVP by Monday, October 24, 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, and Peggy Browning Fellowship Alumni.

Food will be served.

On Tuesday, October 25, the Strauss Center is hosting Benjamin Kastan, Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity, and Charity King, Cybersecurity Attorney, at the National Security Agency, as they provide a lawyer’s perspective on the NSA’s role in securing America’s digital networks, infrastructure, and elections from 2016 to the present. Kastan and King will also explain how lawyers contribute to NSA’s mission and can help improve

Please RSVP by Monday, October 24, on Symplicity. Zoom link will then be sent before the event.

Learn about postgraduate opportunities with Legal Innovators during this virtual information session. Legal Innovators is an alternative legal service provider that hires 3Ls and recent graduates for full-time attorney positions in various locations and creates new pathways into the law firms and corporate legal departments. Legal Innovators works with a range of clients including BigLaw, mid-size firms and corporate legal departments to provide placement, training, mentoring with the objective to launch new attorneys into their careers in law firms or in-house.

In the first year, you will be matched one of our law firms (i.e., American Law 200) or corporate legal department (i.e., Fortune 500) partners based on practice group and geographic preferences and client needs. Our clients have various practice group needs including, but not limited to, Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Private Equity, Structured Finance, Litigation, International Arbitration, Insurance, Bankruptcy, and more. You will be integrated into the firm or legal department and will be expected to perform assignments commensurate with a first-year associate at those places. Our partners are fully dedicated to incorporating LI attorneys into their firm and company culture, including access to training, events and mentorship. Prior to starting with a firm or legal department, you will go through an intensive “orientation,” organized by us, and designed to get you ready for the rigors of your first-year practicing law. Once you are placed with the firm or legal department, you will receive ongoing formal and informal training, mentorship and professional coaching. The objective is to launch you into your career in Big Law or in-house and set you up for a success in the industry.

Some of their clients include Locke Lord LLP; Latham & Watkins LLP; Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP; Shearman & Sterling LLP; Gilbert LLP; Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.; Bechtel Corporation; Mintz, P.C.; Morrison Foerster LLP; Davis Wright Tremaine LLP; and Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP; and more.

Come listen to a debate between Professor Vladeck and Jonathan Mitchell.

Please RSVP by Monday, October 24, on Symplicity.

Meet with the Immigrant Justice Corps to learn about their postgraduate Justice Fellowship. The first and only fellowship of its kind, IJC’s Justice Fellowship identifies promising lawyers who are passionate about immigrants’ rights, places them with organizations where they can make the greatest difference and supports them with training and expert insights as they directly assist immigrants in need.

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Join us for a Memo Workshop with Vinson & Elkins on Tuesday October 25 at 5pm in TNH 2.137. Food will be provided!

Movement Lawyering And Radicalism: Are You Really A Radical? On October 25th, we are excited to invite Carlton Williams to discuss radicalism in the legal profession! Mr. Williams is a movement lawyer and organizer dedicated to building and supporting liberation struggles, has practiced criminal and civil rights law, and is currently faculty at Cornell Law. We will provide food after the event for in-person attendees!

Zoom Alternative: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/8680915549