Events Calendar

Drop in academic advising for 2Ls and 3Ls who have questions about classes, clinics, or internships. Come ask your questions - SAO / Clinics will be there.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/16/74875/

Join LS4BL for Alternative Curriculum where we discuss topics and issues that students might not hear about in the classroom.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/16/74636/

Please RSVP by Friday, October 13, on Symplicity.

Come have lunch and hear from public defenders across Texas about this rewarding career path.

Co-sponsored by the Texas Indigent Defense Commission and Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/16/75342/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/16/74614/

Jacob Mchangama, Director of Justitia and author of Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media, joins us to discuss the history of free speech and the challenges to it today. Light refreshments will be offered. Join us!

Livestream link will be posted to event page on Oct. 16th.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/16/75248/

Affinity mixer and 1L reception with the attorneys of Porter Hedges in Houston where students can learn about the different practice areas at the firm.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/16/75335/

Join TMLS for our monthly general body meeting! Food will be served.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/16/74630/

Join the TJOGEL Society and attorneys from Jackson Walker for a grab-and-go coffee event.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/17/75017/

Drop in academic advising for 2Ls and 3Ls who have questions about classes, clinics, or internships. Come ask your questions - SAO / Clinics will be there.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/17/74876/

Faculty and staff will be on hand to discuss clinic and internship courses for spring 2024. Lunch provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/17/73727/

Presented by the Texas Board of Law Examiners Via Zoom: https://txcourts.zoom.us/j/89228733818 (Passcode: 365271)

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/17/75350/

Applying for the Texas Bar Exam Presented by the Texas Board of Law Examiners October 17, 2023 Noon to 1:00 p.m. Central Via Zoom: https://txcourts.zoom.us/j/89228733818 (Passcode: 365271)

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/17/75549/

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is currently visiting top law schools around the country to talk about the Philadelphia DAs Office. He will talk about District Attorney's Office jobs and the summer program. All are welcome, especially students at Texas Law who are interested in criminal justice reform or the concept of progressive prosecution.

This event is sponsored by the Budd Innocence Center.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/17/75506/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/17/74714/

Join TILJ and the Rapoport Center for the International Pathways: Careers in International Law Panel! This panel will feature three to fours speakers with distinct legal careers with an international focus (international arbitration, human rights, etc.). Come find out a “typical” day in the life of these attorneys and how you can forge a similar path.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/17/75550/

We’re excited to connect Kirkland attorneys and both UT’s IPLS and TIPLJ members for a presentation and happy hour at Haymaker!

Bites and beverages will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/17/75649/

This will be the second round of the Foley & Lardner Novice Mock Trial competition. The round will be held in the evening. This competition is for those who have not competed in a Texas Law intramural mock trial competition before.

Contact jordanhyden@utexas.edu for more information.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/17/74657/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Haynes & Boone to learn more about their firm and grab breakfast.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/18/75339/

Drop in academic advising for 2Ls and 3Ls who have questions about classes, clinics, or internships. Come ask your questions - SAO / Clinics will be there.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/18/74877/

Please RSVP by Tuesday, October 17, on Symplicity. You may sign up for one session.

Start your preparation for your upcoming legal interviews by attending this interactive workshop. You will learn what to expect in a legal interview, hear common legal interview questions, and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. 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/2023/10/18/75392/

Learn about the Justice Center and the support and resources we provide for students interested in nonprofit, government, and legislative service. Chat over lunch with Justice Center staff and students who are involved in our projects.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/18/74728/

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

Please RSVP by Tuesday, October 17, on Symplicity.

The panel will: (1) introduce students to bankruptcy law as a potential career path; (2) educate students about the best ways to obtain an intern/extern or law clerk position with a bankruptcy judge; and (3) build connections between the students and local bankruptcy practitioners and the local bankruptcy bench.

Panelists include: Hon. Shad M. Robinson, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge (WDTX) with others to follow.

Moderated by Professor Jay L. Westbrook.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/18/75344/

Gibson Dunn is organizing an inter-affinity panel to formally introduce itself to first-year law students, followed by an opportunity for 1Ls to pose questions.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/18/75468/

As part of its Ginsburg Initiative, the Center for Women in Law will host a virtual panel discussion to discuss the caregiver penalty and what legal employers can do to address and remedy the issue in their places of employment. Although advances have been made, the pandemic made clear that women continue to be primarily responsible for child and family care. The panel will discuss research and data about the caregiver penalty, what this means for the state of the legal profession, and what leaders in the profession can do to promote gender equity in the legal workplace. Approved for 1 Hour of CLE Ethics Credit.

Panelists:

• Michelle Budig, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts

• Michelle Browning Coughlin, founder, Mothers Esquire; Assistant Professor, Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase School of Law

• Juanita Harris, AVP, Senior Legal Counsel of Labor & Employment, DirecTV

Moderated by Veronica Vargas Stidvent, Executive Director, Center for Women in Law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/18/75469/

Join TJOGEL and attorneys from Norton Rose Fulbright for a Roundtable discussion.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/18/75626/

Scales and Savasana - Balancing Bodies and Minds at Texas Law

Free all-level flow yoga class for law students hosted by CMHC / Texas Law CARE Counselor, Maria Timm, PhD, RYT-200

Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m. (8/30-12/6, no class on 11/1 and 11/22)

TNH 3.140 (Jeffers Courtroom)

To register, email Dr. Timm at maria.timm@austin.utexas.edu or call 512.232.2295

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/18/75009/

Please RSVP by Tuesday, October 17, on Symplicity. You may sign up for one session.

Start your preparation for your upcoming legal interviews by attending this interactive workshop. You will learn what to expect in a legal interview, hear common legal interview questions, and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. 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/2023/10/18/75393/

Renaldo Hudson is an educator, minister, and community organizer, and focuses his work on ending mass incarceration in Illinois. After being sentenced to death row, Renaldo worked for 37 years while incarcerated in the Illinois Department of Corrections, founding groundbreaking programs including the prison-newspaper Stateville Speaks and the Building Block Program, a transformational program run by incarcerated people within the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/18/75566/

Society Football Championship Game! Come out and support Hodges & Martinez as they play for bragging rights + Society points.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/18/74428/

Stop by to chat with attorneys from Kirkland & Ellis, pick up some breakfast, and sign up for the SBA Pickleball Tournament on Friday, October 20th!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/19/75547/

Drop in academic advising for 2Ls and 3Ls who have questions about classes, clinics, or internships. Come ask your questions - SAO / Clinics will be there.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/19/74878/

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

Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 18, on Symplicity.

JAG programs offer exciting opportunities to work on unique and interesting areas of law. Join a panel of JAG representatives to learn more about these unique programs, the internship and permanent employment opportunities they offer, and the various differences in these programs across the various military branches.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/19/74528/

Come hear from 4-5 panelists who will talk about their journey into environmental law. We'll have representatives from public interest, big law, and government. Lunch will be provided (hopefully.)

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/19/75114/

Welcome to Women's Christian Fellowship! We gather together for Bible study, fellowship, and prayer. We welcome women at any stage of their faith journey to join us as we grow closer to God together.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/19/75194/

Join attorneys from Latham & Watkins for a Roundtable Luncheon with the TJOGEL Society. Please RSVP via the form sent in the TJOGEL weekly announcements.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/19/75249/

Jones Day will present and provide lunch. Jones Day Attorneys will give tips on how to be successful as an IP attorney and answer student questions.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/19/75311/

WLC invites you to a panel featuring attorneys from the Austin and Houston offices of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. They will speak about their work, being a successful woman in the legal industry, and summer associate/attorney life -- there will be a panel with some time for questions. This is a great way to meet some Biglaw attorneys in advance of recruiting season!

This event will run from 12 pm - 1pm on Thursday, October 19 and will be in TNH 3.124 (this is located directly above the 1L hallway).

RSVP: https://forms.gle/ehPiCcKPt24HTZAt5

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/19/75551/

Is there a new kid on the block? Does Common Good Originalism offer a better way forward for the American legal system? With a new brand of conservative legal thought emerging, these questions must be answered. Join us Oct. 19th to hear a debate between Chance Weldon and Josh Hammer and find out where you stand!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/19/75606/

Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 18, on Symplicity. Open to 1Ls. You may sign up for one session.

Start your preparation for your upcoming legal interviews by attending this interactive workshop. You will learn what to expect in a legal interview, hear common legal interview questions, and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. 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/2023/10/19/75394/

This critical, interdisciplinary roundtable discussion, framed by two exhibitions of materials from Chile at the Benson Latin American Collection, brings together scholars and activists who will focus on different historical memories to consider the history and trajectory of Chile over the past six decades as they think towards possible futures.

Roundtable participants: Arnulf Becker Lorca, Chair in Public International Law, European University Institute; María Diemar, Mapuche Activist and Member of Chile Adoption, Chileadoption de Suecia; John Dinges, Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor Emeritus, Columbia Journalism School; Alina Namuncura Rodenkirchen, Mapuche Activist and Member of Hijos y Madres del Silencio; Carola Zuleta, Administrator, Corporación Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi

Facilitators: Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Associate Professor of Spanish and Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies, UT; Karen Engle, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Co-director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, UT

Conveners: Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, UT; Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), UT; The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, UT; Latin American Initiative, School of Law, UT; Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies, UT

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/19/74586/

This will be the finals of the Foley & Lardner Novice Mock Trial competition. This competition is for those who have not competed in a Texas Law intramural mock trial competition before.

This final round is open for the public to attend and we encourage all to join us in watching the final round!

Time TBD.

Contact jordanhyden@utexas.edu for more information.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/20/74659/

Stop by the breezeway on your way to class for coffee provided by Vinson & Elkins and to say hi to your 2023-24 SBA Board!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/20/75486/

Hodges/Martinez Societies - Food Truck Friday

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/20/74454/

Please RSVP by Thursday, October 19, on Symplicity. You may sign up for one session.

Start your preparation for your upcoming legal interviews by attending this interactive workshop. You will learn what to expect in a legal interview, hear common legal interview questions, and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. 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/2023/10/20/75434/

Stop by the SAO before Early Registration ends at 4:30 for academic advising!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/20/75646/

Fall is here and it's time to get back outside! Join SBA and attorneys from Kirkland & Ellis on Friday, October 20th, for our first annual pickleball tournament! The winning teams will have their choice of prizes including Yetis, Comfort Colors quarter zips, SBA/Texas Law hats, and more! Sport towels will be provided to all players and spectators. Sign up on the SBA Canvas by October 19th!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/20/75592/

Please RSVP by Thursday, October 19, on Symplicity. You may sign up for one session.

Start your preparation for your upcoming legal interviews by attending this interactive workshop. You will learn what to expect in a legal interview, hear common legal interview questions, and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. 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/2023/10/20/75435/

Join your fellow Texas Law grads for a fun evening to get ready to cheer on the Texas Longhorns against the Houston Cougars. All alumni are invited. We hope to see you there!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/20/74131/

Norton Rose Fulbright is proud to sponsor the first of two Texas Law Society Program Volunteer Days! On Saturday, October 21st from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CT at Mobile Loaves and Fishes. Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLF) is a social outreach ministry that has been empowering communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless since 1998. Founded in Austin, Texas, the organization serves its homeless neighbors through three core programs: Truck Ministry - Community First! Village - Community Works Our group will volunteer at the Community First! Village, a 51-acre master planned development that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness. We will assist with property beautification, neighbor engagement and facility maintenance.

To register, please sign up through the link below. Spots are limited and are filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Society points will be awarded to the Societies with the highest participation. Come volunteer with an incredible organization and help your Society win the Society Cup!

https://www.florecruit.com/v2/app/nrf/registration/events/47117/register

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/21/75286/