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April 14, 2011
UT Law wins “National Best Brief” Award at ABA’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition
Members of the University of Texas School of Law’s interscholastic team— Nicole Haddad, ’12, principal brief writer, and teammates Michael Raupp, ’12, and Karson Thompson,’12—have won the Best Brief Award at the American Bar Association’s thirty-fourth annual National Appellate Advocacy Competition. -
April 4, 2011
Justice Center announces 2011 Whitehurst Public Interest Summer Fellows
Six students at the University of Texas School of Law have been selected as the 2011 Whitehurst Public Interest Summer Fellows. The fellowships are made possible by a gift from Bill, ’70, and Stephanie Whitehurst, and are administered by the Law School’s William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law. The fellowships are awarded annually to outstanding students between their second and third years of law school to support their summer public interest work. -
March 29, 2011
UT Law student selected for Access to Justice Summer Internship Program
First-year UT Law student Adriana Bole has been selected to participate in the Access to Justice Summer Internship Program. Bole, one of only fourteen law students from around the United States selected for the program, will spend her summer internship with the Paso del Norte Civil Rights Project in El Paso. -
March 28, 2011
UT Law’s Students for the Arts cosponsors free legal clinic for local artists, March 31, 2011
Law Students for the Arts (LSfTA), a student group at the Law School, with support from Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts (TALA), will offer a free legal clinic for low-income artists on Thursday, March 31, 2011, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the offices of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP at 600 Congress Avenue, Suite 2400. -
March 24, 2011
Law School team wins national championship at Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition
The University of Texas School of Law interscholastic team won the national championship in the 2011 Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition. Team members Anthony Arguijo, ’11; Sergio Davila, ’11; and Omar Ochoa, ’11, beat Arizona State University in the final round of the competition to win the championship. The team also won the award for best respondent’s brief. -
March 11, 2011
The University of Texas School of Law claimed a regional championship for the third consecutive year at the American Bar Association’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition—the nation’s largest moot court competition—in Seattle on March 3–5, 2011. -
March 3, 2011
This year, Assault & Flattery presents Motion's 11, a new satirical musical written, directed, and performed entirely by UT Law students. -
February 24, 2011
Third-year law student awarded Julius Glickman Fellowship to pursue worker rights project
The University of Texas School of Law’s Justice Corps program recently awarded the Julius Glickman Fellowship in Public Interest Law to third-year student Claire Rodriguez. The two-year fellowship provides $45,000 per year for full-time legal work on a project sponsored by an existing public-interest legal organization and supervised by a licensed attorney. -
February 17, 2011
The Law School’s interscholastic team won a national championship at the John L. Costello National Criminal Law Trial Advocacy Competition, held in Fairfax, Virginia, February 10–13, 2011. -
January 31, 2011
UT Law Pro Bono Program Sends Thirty-Three Law Students to the Rio Grande Valley
On January 9–14, 2011, thirty-three students and four faculty members from the University of Texas School of Law spent the last week of their winter break in the Texas Rio Grande Valley helping to provide pro bono legal assistance in underserved communities. -
January 27, 2011
On Wednesday, January 26, 2011, seventeen students were inducted into Chancellors, the University of Texas School of Law’s most prestigious honor society. -
January 21, 2011
Fielding B. “Tres” Cochran III, ’75, receives Ernest E. Smith Lifetime Achievement Award
The Texas Journal of Oil, Gas & Energy Law has awarded the 2010 Ernest E. Smith Lifetime Achievement Award to Fielding B. “Tres” Cochran III, ’75. Cochran received the award on January 20, 2011 at the sixth annual Texas Journal of Oil, Gas & Energy Law Banquet.
