Events Calendar

Immigration attorney Rachel Tiven will speak from 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. on “Personal Pride and Overcoming Prejudice: What Can the LGBT and Immigrant Rights Movements Teach Each Other?” From 12:45-1:45 p.m., she’ll meet more informally with students to discuss about her life in the law. Attend one or both sessions. Lunch served at 12:45.

Rachel B. Tiven is the Executive Director of Immigrant Justice Corps, the nation’s first fellowship program dedicated to meeting the need for high-quality legal assistance for immigrants seeking citizenship and fighting deportation. From 2005-2013, Ms. Tiven led Immigration Equality, a national non-profit organization fighting for equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV-positive immigrants and asylum seekers. Under her leadership, Immigration Equality built a $17 million pro bono program, quintupled client services to aid more than 5,000 people annually, and succeeded in changing the U.S. immigration system for LGBT and HIV-positive people. Ms. Tiven is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College and Columbia Law School. Before becoming a lawyer she worked at Bloomberg Business News and Lambda Legal. As a lawyer, she represented immigrant clients at the Legal Aid Society of New York and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Barbara S. Jones in the Southern District of New York. She is a recipient of Columbia’s Public Interest Law Foundation award, and was named one of the Advocate magazine’s 40 under 40.

For more information about Ms. Tiven, see http://justicecorps.org/our-team/

RSVP by Monday, March 28, on Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/03/29/21654/

Are you interested in corporate law and mergers & acquisitions? Join us for a breakfast taco and learn how you can use Bloomberg Law to be prepared to practice this summer. Bring your laptops!

Michael Calder of Bloomberg Law will be demonstrating how to prepare for your summer as a Tax Law Associate.

Breakfast will be served. RSVP by Wednesday, March 30, on Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/03/31/22009/

The State Bar of Texas Tax Section will present a discussion about various career opportunities in the area of tax law. Panelists include Polly Bone, Attorney, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid; Cindy Grossman, '04, Partner, Giordani, Swanger, Ripp, Phillips, LLP; Patrick O'Daniel, '92, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright; Daniel Price, '02, Internal Revenue Service, Office of Chief Counsel; Nancy Prosser, '93, Texas Comptroller's Office; and John Strohmeyer, Associate, Crady, Jewett & McCulley, LLP. Moderated by Christi Mondrik, '01, Mondrik & Associates.

Lunch will be provided. RSVP by Wednesday, March 30, on Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/03/31/21924/

Are you interested in tax law? Join us for an ice cream and learn how you can use Bloomberg Law to be prepared to practice this summer. Bring your laptops!

Michael Calder of Bloomberg Law will be demonstrating how to prepare for your Summer as a Tax Law Associate.

Amy's Ice Cream will be served. RSVP by Wednesday, March 30, on Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/03/31/22008/

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, PC invites all 1L & 2L students to join them for breakfast tacos in the Law School Atrium. Attorney and recruiting personnel will be in attendance to answer questions about the firm on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Please stop by on your way to class.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/04/05/22010/

Niki Moore of PracticePro, together with Christopher Rogers, Partner, Haynes and Boone (Dallas); Jennifer Poppe, '98, Partner, Vinson & Elkins (Austin); Robert Slovak, '99, Partner, Gardere Wynne Sewell (Dallas); and Jennifer Tung, Senior Counsel at Uber (Austin), will discuss how to excel in your summer clerkship, exceed employer expectations, seek work and manage assignments, balance priorities and deadlines in a professional manner, build successful relationships, and identify opportunities and avoid pitfalls in social events. Lunch will be served. RSVP by Monday, April 4, on Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/04/05/21647/

Panelists will discuss strategies for negotiating job offers with small or midsize firms and what questions to ask before accepting. Topics will include salary negotiations and resources for researching salaries and benefits. Breakfast will be served. RSVP by Tuesday, April 5 , on Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

Co-Sponsored by Women's Law Caucus.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/04/06/22017/

Working for a nonprofit or government agency this summer? This session will prepare you to thrive and get the most out of your summer work experience.

Professor Scott McCown, along with a panel of students familiar with nonprofit and government settings, will discuss how to handle opportunities and challenges that come up in these unique work environments, including getting great work and supervision, and steering clear of ethical pitfalls.

Lunch will be served. RSVP by Wednesday, April 6, on Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/04/07/21658/

1L sign-up is on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 9:00 p.m. on TUESDAY, MARCH 8, on Symplicity. Space is limited to the first 75 1Ls! Learn the finer points of business dining and protocol over a three-course seated dinner presented by Mary Crane (www.marycrane.com). The dinner is generously sponsored by Locke Lord LLP, who will be hosting a cocktail reception for registered attendees prior to dinner from 6:15-7:00 p.m. All guests should be seated for dinner by 7:00 p.m. Dress is business casual.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/04/07/21968/