2011 Leadership Boot Camp
On February 18, 2011, the Center for Women in Law at The University of Texas School of Law hosted its second annual Leadership Boot Camp. The Leadership Boot Camp is a limited enrollment, all-day, intensive workshop for third-year law students, judicial clerks, and LL.M. students. “The Leadership Boot Camp provides women students and new graduates with critical skills needed to successfully navigate their careers in a profession that currently does not support their advancement,” explained Linda Bray Chanow, Executive Director of the Center.
The hallmark of the Leadership Boot Camp is the combination of lecture and applied learning workshops. Expert trainers delivered lectures in effective communication, self-promotion, and networking. Following each lecture, students worked in interactive small groups of four to six students with two experienced attorneys to perfect these skills and receive individualized critiques. Read more.
“I would wholeheartedly recommend Boot Camp to everyone in law school. In fact, I wish that I could go through it once more.”
– 2011 Leadership Boot Camp Attendee
Speakers
Barbara Miller, Senior Communications Trainer and Speaker to Amlaw 200 Law Firms, Barbara B. Miller Communication
Karen Lockwood, Principal, The Lockwood Group
Diane Darling, Founder and CEO, Effective Networking
Faculty
Jennifer Aufricht, Thompson Coe
Victoria Benitez, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
Michelle Sloane Bourianoff, AT&T
Kimberly S. Bowers, Valero Energy Corporation
Emma Cano, Haynes and Boone, LLP
Patricia Carls, Carls, McDonald & Dalrymple, LLP
Henry De La Garza, Office of the Attorney General of Texas
Martha S. Dickie, Almanza, Blackburn & Dickie, LLP
Mary Schaerdel Dietz, K&L Gates LLP
Bethann Eccles, Eccles & McIntosh, PC
Lori K. Erwin, Thompson Coe
Sarah B. Foster, HaynesBoone
Marcy Hogan Greer, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
Toya Cirica Cook Haley, Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Laura E. Hannusch, Pillsbury Wintrhop Shaw Pitman LLP
Rina Y. Hartline, CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
Diana M. Hudson, Andrews Kurth LLP
Cisselon Nichols Hurd, Shell Oil Company
Dana C. Jewell
Francés Jones, The Law Firm of Francés Jones
Kurt Kuhn, Brown McCarroll, LLP
Kathleen Cooper Lake, Vinson & Elkins LLP
JoAnne Wallace McIntosh, Eccles & McIntosh, PC
Jessica C. Mederson, Vinson & Elkins LLP
Mary Simmons Mendoza, Haynes and Boone, LLP
Christine Montoya, State Farm Insurance Companies
Susan G. Morrison, The Fowler Law Firm P.C.
Catherine C. Mosbacher, Center for Houston’s Future
Sandra L. Phillips, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Tracie J. Renfroe, King & Spalding
Chris Schmitt, Vinson & Elkins LLP
Julia A. Simon, Mary Kay Inc.
Angela Vogeli, Teacher Retirement System of Texas
Gail Watkins, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
Michelle Watson, State Farm Insurance Companies
Susan G. Zachos, Law Offices of Susan G. Zachos
The Leadership Boot Camp is offered free to students thanks to the generosity of the Center’s Founding Members and the following event sponsors: