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May 7, 2018
Darren Walker ’86 Honored by the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life
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 […] -
February 3, 2018
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 […] -
November 8, 2017
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 […] -
August 30, 2017
Daniel Hatoum ’16 Awarded Fried Frank Civil Rights Fellowship
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 […] -
August 24, 2017
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 […] -
June 15, 2017
James J. Aycock ’69 Honored by Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section
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 […] -
May 18, 2017
Two Texas Law Alumni Among The Texas Exes 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award
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 […] -
May 3, 2017
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 […] -
April 28, 2017
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 […] -
April 10, 2017
Lyrissa Lidsky ’93 Named 17th dean of the University of Missouri School of Law
From Mizzou Law’s website: Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, currently the associate dean for graduate and non-J.D. programs at the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law, has been appointed as the 17th dean of the University of Missouri School of Law. She will join the law school officially on July 1. “I am thrilled […] -
February 27, 2017
Jack Pope ’37, Former Chief Justice of Texas Supreme Court, Dies at 103
Andrew Jackson “Jack” Pope, a member of the Texas Law Class of 1937, passed away on Saturday, February 25, 2017. He was 103 years old. After passing the bar in 1937, Pope practiced law in Corpus Christi at the firm started by his uncle Walter Pope, a former state representative. He eventually left private practice […] -
May 17, 2016
Six of Texas Law’s most accomplished, illustrious alumni are being honored this September by the Texas Law Alumni Association and Dean Ward Farnsworth. Former United States Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison ’67 will receive the Association’s Award for Lifetime Achievement. Austin attorney Patton G. Lochridge ’76 will be honored as Outstanding Alumnus. Senior U.S. District Court Judge […]
