Events Calendar

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Paul Hastings to learn more about their firm and grab lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/18/76987/

Many people think that Big Law effectively limits its work to serving the most powerful corporations in the world who may, in one form or another, contribute to poverty, harm to the environment, and political disenfranchisement. But many Big Law attorneys have changed the legal landscape for public interest legal issues. This panel will illustrate important cases that Big Law attorneys participate in and lead for public interest. It will also show how certain Big Law firms create a culture and system that promotes pro bono work. This panel will include three to four attorneys from Big Law firms around Texas who have done, and continue to do, important pro bono work, and even create a paradigm for how some of our budding law students would want to navigate the Big Law litigation world.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/18/76671/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Foley & Lardner to learn more about their firm and grab coffee and snacks.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/18/77087/

Join BOA and Foley & Lardner for breakfast tacos and coffee in the atrium!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/19/76908/

Faculty meeting and lunch

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/19/76728/

Please RSVP by Monday, March 18, on Symplicity.

CSO Career Counselor Jordan Holtzer will be giving a presentation on the potential career paths in entertainment law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/19/77009/

2Ls and 3Ls share their experiences in studying environmental law, doing extracurriculars, the environmental job search, etc. We will especially discuss our experience in Environmental Law classes, and we'll give advice to 1Ls on the best order to take them in.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/19/76907/

Regina Bynote Jones, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of ADM (one of the world’s largest nutrition companies), will be interviewed by our Executive Director, Veronica Stidvent.

During this conversation, they will discuss Jones’s legal career and the ethical standards and challenges of a corporate general counsel. Jones will discuss how to help companies navigate regulatory frameworks and how regulatory and compliance expertise can transfer across industries. (Prior to joining ADM, Jones served as general counsel in the energy sector.)

Approved for 1 Hour Ethics CLE.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/19/77093/

Get ready for the MPRE Exam by taking a practice exam! Pizza will be served at 5:30 PM and the exam will begin at 6:00 PM.

Register Here: http://links.utexas.edu/bllvjhu

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/19/77007/

Mentoring Program event hosted by Jackson Walker LLP.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/19/76589/

Join Wilson Sonsini and APALSA for bagels and coffee on 3/20 at the Jamail Pavilion

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/20/77229/

Find out about Advocacy Program courses (in preparation for early registration), workshops, and extracurricular activities such as interscholastic mock trial and moot court. Also discover what the Board of Advocates has to offer. You will have the opportunity to meet the Director of Advocacy and ask questions of the Advocacy Program staff and/or current students involved in the Program. Not to mention, FREE LUNCH!

It is a come and go event, so feel free to stop by the 3rd floor of CCJ (Connally Center for Justice), grab a lunch, and chat with Advocacy Program staff and students anytime between 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/20/77208/

Come join us for a DE&I in the law lunch panel led by Simpson Thacher!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/20/76956/

Panelists will talk about how toxics and industrial pollutants disproportionately impact lower income communities and communities of color, and what we as lawyers can do about it. Professor Wendy Wagner to moderate.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/20/77041/

Have questions about the July 2024 bar exam? Come get them answered and grab a slice of pizza.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/20/76667/

Students interested in being Pro Bono Scholars for the 2024-2025 academic year are invited to attend an information session on Wednesday, March 20, from 4pm-5pm (Zoom). Register here: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtc-iurj0sHtBCsIUXsxnuuct7aZuIoWL9

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/20/77042/

Houston Admitted Students Reception

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/20/74146/

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

TBD

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/21/76489/

Please RSVP by Wednesday, March 20, on Symplicity.

Join this program to learn tips and pointers for how to succeed in your summer public service internship position. This program will include information concerning ethical considerations for summer interns, as well as a panel of public service employers to provide insight on how to really stand out as an intern in your summer public service position. Pizza will be served.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/21/76446/

Informational session for rising 2L & 3L students who are interested in becoming Teaching Quizmasters (teaching assistants) for the JD legal-writing program and the LLM legal-writing course.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/21/76386/

Please join members of Volume 103 of the Texas Law Review to learn more about Bluebook rules in preparation for the write-on Bluebooking exam. Lunch will be provided thanks to our sponsor, Beck Redden!

Feel free to email any questions to writeonquestions@texaslrev.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/21/77034/

Learn more about careers in the tech law sphere with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP! Free lunch will be provided. Please fill out this form for lunch logistic information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBHzEbmbh8kmneMBnjF51Qgmso54L4gtgOi1U6SVpI0D-4Xw/viewform

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/21/77227/

Sponsored by Swedish Excellence Endowment, The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Excellence Endowment, and Texas Global.

Swedish lawyer and nuclear disarmament advocate Beatrice Fihn will reflect on her Nobel Peace Prize winning work toward the 2017 adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. As Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Fihn led the mobilization of civil society, diplomats, scientists, and legal experts in support of the treaty. In her lecture, Fihn will speak on the ongoing threats posed by nuclear weapons, and on the power of movement-based advocacy to fight them.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/21/77068/

Join TLF for our annual Casino Night! This event is meant to help raise funds for public interest law students. Casino Night will be held on Thursday, March 21st from 7-10pm at Lustre Pearl East! Tickets will be on sale in the atrium.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/21/76847/

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The world is at “90 seconds to midnight,” the closest it has ever been, according to the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. However alarming this prognosis is, nuclear disaster has long been in the making, demonstrated by decades of Indigenous, Third World, and feminist anti-nuclear advocacy. For decades, these advocates have recognized that nuclear and environmental threats and harms are intrinsically connected through legal, political, and economic structures of imperialism.

“Disarming Toxic Empire” will bring fresh, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to peace, nuclear disarmament, and environmental justice. Participants will consider and contest the unjust, imperial histories and geographies of nuclear testing, production, storage, and weaponry. The conference will bring together academics, advocates, and artists working through intergenerational channels of memory and justice to respond to nuclear toxicity in all its forms and manifestations, in sites ranging from the Navajo Nation and the Pacific Islands to Japan, North Africa, and Ghana.

The conference will open with a keynote address by 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner Beatrice Fihn, former executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). It will end with a performance of A Body in Fukushima by the movement–based interdisciplinary artist Eiko Otake.

Hosted by the Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice of the Rapoport Center, the conference is a collaborative effort among many institutions at the University of Texas and beyond. Fihn’s keynote event is sponsored by the Swedish Excellence Endowment, the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Excellence Endowment, and Texas Global.

Co-sponsored by the Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice; Swedish Excellence Endowment and The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Excellence Endowment; Texas Global; Center for European Studies and France-UT Institute; Humanities Institute, funding support provided by Viola S. Hoffman and George W. Hoffman Lectureship in Liberal Arts and Fine Arts; the Charles N. Wilson Chair in South Asian Studies and the Department of Government; Planet Texas 2050; Center for East Asian Studies; South Asia Institute; the Oscar Brockett Center for Theatre History and Performance as Public Practice in the Department of Theatre and Dance; Briscoe Center for American History; the Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies; and Rude Mechs.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/22/76467/

Get ready for the inaugural UT Law Kickball Tournament! 🏆

Who can participate? EVERYONE! 1Ls, 2Ls, 3Ls and LLMs are all invited to join the fun! ⚖️⚽

What's at stake? Glory, bragging rights, and awesome prizes! The winning team will receive a shiny trophy and special championship t-shirts! 🥇👕

Don't miss out on this epic event! Mark your calendars and gather your squad for a day of kickball excitement! 🎉🌟

Sign-Up: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d6kqqP5xBK276T4

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/22/76087/