Category: Alumni News

  • Six of Texas Law’s most accomplished and illustrious alumni are being honored this October by the Texas Law Alumni Association and Dean Ward Farnsworth. Legendary Houston lawyer and civic leader Richard Mithoff ’71 will receive the Association’s Award for Lifetime Achievement. Dallas-based Sandra Phillips Rogers ’91, Group Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for Toyota Motor North […]
  • The Law School celebrated the Class of 2018, their family and friends, and the school’s leadership and faculty, on Saturday, May 19, 2018, at the Gregory Gym, in the heart of the UT campus. The commencement address was delivered by Linda Addison ’76. Watch her remarks here:  
  • ADDISON ADDRESS
    The Texas Law Class of 2018, their families and friends, and the law school leadership and faculty, were regaled with an exceptional address from Linda Addison ’76 at the annual commencement ceremony, held on May 19, 2018. Ms. Addison, who serves on the Law School Foundation and is a founder of the Center for Women […]
  • Darren Walker ’86 added yet another award to his distinguished résumé, when the Moody College of Communication’s Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life presented him with the inaugural Shirley Perry Bird Longhorn Citizenship Award on April 24, in Austin. UT Austin President Greg Fenves made the presentation. Reprinted below, with permission, is the story written by Annette […]
  • Double-Longhorn Belinda Johnson — BA ’88 and JD ’91 — was announced today as the first-ever Chief Operating Officer of Airbnb, the global start-up superstar currently valued at $31B. The news was made public this morning by Airbnb founder and CEO Brian Chesky, on the Airbnb website. “The COO is one of the most critical positions […]
  • Thanks to a gift from a former prosecutor and her husband, The University of Texas School of Law is opening the Budd Innocence Center to educate law students and improve the criminal justice system by enabling students and faculty to help Texas prisoners seek exoneration for crimes they did not commit. The Budd Innocence Center […]
  • Daniel Hatoum
    Fried Frank, a New York-based law firm with offices in Washington, D.C., London, Paris, and Frankfurt, has awarded Texas Law graduate Daniel Hatoum, ’16, its 2017 Civil Rights Fellowship. Hatoum will work for two years in New York as a Fried Frank litigator and then two years as a staff attorney with the Mexican-American Legal […]
  • Nicole Cásarez
    The Class of 2020 spent their first morning of law school with an all-star collection of Texas Law luminaries, including Dean Ward Farnsworth and Associate Dean Robert Chesney, and they took the Oath of Professionalism, administered by the Hon. Debra Lehrmann ’82, Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. But the emotional highlight of the […]
  • James Aycock, a shareholder with the San Antonio firm Langley & Banack, Inc.,  received the Distinguished Probate Attorney Lifetime Achievement Award from the Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Texas (www.reptl.org). The honor was presented to Aycock at the Advanced Estate Planning & Probate course in Houston on June […]
  • Since 1958, the Texas Exes have honored those alumni who have distinguished themselves professionally and through service to the University of Texas. They have just announced the winners of the 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Awards, and the list includes two exceptional Texas Law alumni: John L. Adams ’69 and Michael L. “Mickey” Klein ’63. Both men are, in […]
  • Six of Texas Law’s most accomplished and illustrious alumni are being honored this October by the Texas Law Alumni Association and Dean Ward Farnsworth. Legendary Austin lawyer and civic leader Frank Denius ’49 will receive the Association’s Award for Lifetime Achievement. Houston-based JoAnn Lee ’83, an Assistant General Counsel for Exxon Mobil, will be honored as Outstanding […]
  • The Hon. Debra Lehrmann ’82 will give the commencement address at the 2017 Sunflower Ceremony on Saturday, May 20. Justice Lehrmann has served on the Supreme Court of Texas since 2010; before that, she served as a family law trial judge for 23 years. Prior to her judicial service, Justice Lehrmann practiced law in Fort […]