Events Calendar

The Texas Law Professional Development Institute: Prepared For Practice is taught by industry experts and practicing attorneys, covering facets of new attorney professionalism most sought after by legal employers. It is promoted widely to employers, many of whom contributed to the content of the program.

Whether you're a 1L preparing for your first summer clerkship or the fall recruiting season, a 2L working to turn your summer clerkship or fellowship into an offer, or a graduating 3L getting a head start on your legal career, the Texas Law Professional Development Institute (PDI), which is presented each Spring, will help you be a more competitive candidate and a better lawyer.

Online registration will be announced in October and will be awarded on a first-come basis. Please note that 2Ls and 3Ls who attended last year may sign up for this year’s Institute.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/19/41510/

11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. in the Eidman Courtroom and 12:45-1:45 p.m. in the Jury Room. Lunch served at 12:45.

During the first hour, which is free and open to the public, John Pollock will discuss his work to establish the right to counsel for low-income individuals in civil cases involving fundamental rights in a talk entitled “The Right to Counsel in Eviction Cases: Successes and the Potential in Texas.” During the second hour he will meet with students more informally over lunch to discuss his life and career.

John Pollock is a Staff Attorney for the Public Justice Center and serves as the Coordinator of the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel. He focuses entirely on working to establish the right to counsel for low-income individuals in civil cases involving fundamental rights such as child custody, housing, and benefits. Previously, he served as the Enforcement Director for the Central Alabama Fair Housing Center (CAFHC) in Montgomery, Alabama, addressing systemic housing discrimination in rental, sales, lending, and insurance. He started his legal career at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, where he worked on immigrant civil rights violations by state and federal officers, involuntary land loss in minority communities, wage/hour violations by employers of migrant workers, predatory lending, and hate crimes. While at SPLC, he founded the Heirs' Property Retention Coalition, a network of dozens of organizations across the southeastern United States working on stopping the forced sales of ancestral property within low-income African-American communities. John drafted the first version of what eventually became the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act, a uniform law to reduce forced sales that was adopted by the ABA and the Uniform Law Commission in 2011. The Act has been adopted by the states of Nevada, Georgia, Montana, Alabama, and Arkansas, and has been introduced as legislation in several other states. He attended Wesleyan University and Northeastern University School of Law.

The “Lives in the Law” speaker series focuses on the work and lives of lawyers who strive to improve the lives of others through litigation, advocacy and public service.

Hosted by the Career Services Office, the UT Opportunity Forum, and the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law. Cosponsored by the UT Chapter of the American Constitution Society, If/When/How, and the Public Interest Law Association.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/19/43125/

Sign up for a chance to meet pne on one with John Pollock, Attorney at the Public Justice Center, to discuss his career path and current work advocating for civil Gideon representation. This meetings follow his Lives in the Law talk from 11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m. in the Eidman Courtroom.

Sign up by Monday, February 18 on Symplicity under the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/19/44425/

Paul Hastings lLP invites all 1L students to join them for a lunch taco in the Law School Atrium. Attorney and recruiting personnel will be in attendance to answer questions about the firm on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Be sure to stop by on your way to class.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/21/44606/

Kathleen Rubenstein, Associate Director of the Skadden Foundation, will discuss the Skadden Fellowship for students who are interested in applying for the prestigious postgraduate public interest fellowship.

Lunch will be served. RSVP by Wednesday, February 20, on Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/21/43825/

Find out why working in a small or midsize firm might be right for you. Panelists will discuss how to effectively prepare for a career in a small or midsize firm, as well as strategies for building a network and finding opportunities.

Lunch will be served. RSVP by Wednesday, February 20 on Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/21/43407/