Events Calendar

The University of Texas School of Law’s Higher Education Taxation Institute (HETI) provides a unique forum for college and university tax professionals from around the country to examine and discuss federal tax issues and compliance, legislative, judicial, regulatory and administrative changes affecting colleges and universities. Don't miss valuable expertise, timely insight into federal tax law developments, and numerous networking opportunities with sessions that include:

- Updates from key IRS officials - Sunday Evening Keynote Presentation by the U.S. Department of Education—The Future of Higher Education - Major developments in college and university tax law - Issues in tax-exempt finance, alternative investments, charitable contributions and employment law - In-house counsel advice and strategies for managing IRS audits - Hot topics in college and university UBIT - Preparing and implementing a tax-exempt bond and compliance policy - Practical approaches to evaluating and structuring joint venture opportunities - Changing tax regulations regarding foreign payees - Risks and opportunities in global expansion of higher education

Register at www.utcle.org/conferences/UT13

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/24/16226/

Last day to submit applications to graduate in May; forms available in the Student Affairs Office.

Deadline to register In Absentia.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/25/13886/

Early registration for Fall 2013 through the Law School website only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/25/13887/

The University of Texas School of Law’s Higher Education Taxation Institute (HETI) provides a unique forum for college and university tax professionals from around the country to examine and discuss federal tax issues and compliance, legislative, judicial, regulatory and administrative changes affecting colleges and universities. Don't miss valuable expertise, timely insight into federal tax law developments, and numerous networking opportunities with sessions that include:

- Updates from key IRS officials - Sunday Evening Keynote Presentation by the U.S. Department of Education—The Future of Higher Education - Major developments in college and university tax law - Issues in tax-exempt finance, alternative investments, charitable contributions and employment law - In-house counsel advice and strategies for managing IRS audits - Hot topics in college and university UBIT - Preparing and implementing a tax-exempt bond and compliance policy - Practical approaches to evaluating and structuring joint venture opportunities - Changing tax regulations regarding foreign payees - Risks and opportunities in global expansion of higher education

Register at www.utcle.org/conferences/UT13

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/25/16227/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/25/15802/

Early registration for Fall 2013 through the Law School website only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/26/13888/

The University of Texas School of Law’s Higher Education Taxation Institute (HETI) provides a unique forum for college and university tax professionals from around the country to examine and discuss federal tax issues and compliance, legislative, judicial, regulatory and administrative changes affecting colleges and universities. Don't miss valuable expertise, timely insight into federal tax law developments, and numerous networking opportunities with sessions that include:

- Updates from key IRS officials - Sunday Evening Keynote Presentation by the U.S. Department of Education—The Future of Higher Education - Major developments in college and university tax law - Issues in tax-exempt finance, alternative investments, charitable contributions and employment law - In-house counsel advice and strategies for managing IRS audits - Hot topics in college and university UBIT - Preparing and implementing a tax-exempt bond and compliance policy - Practical approaches to evaluating and structuring joint venture opportunities - Changing tax regulations regarding foreign payees - Risks and opportunities in global expansion of higher education

Register at www.utcle.org/conferences/UT13

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/26/16228/

The Women's Law Caucus and the women lawyers of Baker Botts invite you to join them on Tuesday, March 26 for lunch and an informative panel discussion. This luncheon program will give female 1L students an opportunity to obtain valuable insights from women lawyers across all levels of the firm. Topics to be discussed include: practicing law in a big firm; selecting a practice group/department; recruiting, mentoring & professional development; maintaining work life balance; tips for success in law school and beyond.

The target audience for this event is 1L women students.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/26/16291/

Please join us for a special event featuring Miguel Sarre, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Public Law at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Professor Sarre will present a talk entitled “Prisons in Latin America: Building up the Wall of Separation between Justice and Revenge.” The event is co-sponsored by the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the Immigration Clinic. Lunch will be provided; RSVP to humanrights@law.utexas.edu

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/26/16383/

Don’t miss this opportunity to ask successful judicial clerkship candidates everything you’d like to know about the clerkship application process. This meeting is for 2Ls and 3Ls only. No faculty or CSO staff members will be present.

Pizza will be served. RSVP by Monday, March 25, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the “Events” tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/26/16213/

Student Advisory Board

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/26/16400/

Early registration for Fall 2013 through the Law School website only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/27/13889/

Are you considering opportunities in government service or public interest law? The UT Law Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), administered by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law, provides financial assistance to graduates with educational debt who enter qualifying public service. The UT Law LRAP, coupled with the new federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Income Based Repayment programs, will significantly help graduates in public service repay their educational debt.

Eden Harrington, Director of the Justice Center, will present basic information about UT Law LRAP and answer questions about it. Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 8:15-9:00 am, Sheffield Room, breakfast provided

For more information about the event, contact Elena Yujuico, Justice Center Administrator, eyujuico@law.utexas.edu

For more information about UT LRAP, see http://www.utexas.edu/law/centers/publicinterest/lrap/

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/27/15667/

Need a notary for your state bar exam application? Notaries are available in the Susman Godfrey Atrium at the Susman Godfrey Atrium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Notaries are not available outside of these hours on these dates. Students must be prepared to show a photo ID and the notary must witness the student sign the document. Notaries are available for Law School and state bar-related business only. There is no charge.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/27/16330/

CHLSA will be selling baked goods to raise money for scholarships for students doing public interest work. We will begin selling in the atrium at 10am until 3 or sold out.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/27/16335/

SBA Spring Elections will take place in the Atrium on Wednesday, March 27 from 10:30a.m.-2:30p.m.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/27/16042/

Join Professor Philip Postlewaite, the Director of the Tax Program at Northwestern University School of Law, to learn more about Northwestern's LL.M. in Taxation Program in Chicago, Illinois. The presentation is open to all students interested in pursuing the LL.M. degree on either a full-time or part-time basis following graduation. Lunch will be served. RSVP by Tuesday, March 26, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the 'Events' tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/27/16397/

Mark Levy, '01, will discuss fall internship opportunities available in the Texas Office of the Attorney General - Antitrust Division, which may qualify for academic credit. Please bring your lunch and the CSO will provide drinks. RSVP by Tuesday, March 26, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the 'Events' tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/27/16424/

The Federalist Society will host a debate on national security and terrorism between Professor Robert M. Chesney and Greg McNeal. Mr. McNeal, among other things, co-directed a transnational counterterrorism program for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/27/15932/

Early registration for Fall 2013 through the Law School website only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/28/13890/

Apply for a positon on the Texas Law Fellowships (TLF) Board! Information and applications available at texaslawfellowships.org. Applications due on Monday, April 8th by 5:00pm.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/28/16450/

Need a notary for your state bar exam application? Notaries are available in the Susman Godfrey Atrium at the Susman Godfrey Atrium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Notaries are not available outside of these hours on these dates. Students must be prepared to show a photo ID and the notary must witness the student sign the document. Notaries are available for Law School and state bar-related business only. There is no charge.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/28/16333/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. If in doubt, verify with the web-based events calendar.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/28/15151/

Please join us for a discussion of recent developments with immigration law experts Lucas Guttentag of the ACLU, and Nina Perales of MALDEF Moderated by Professors Michael Churgin and Barbara Hines, UT Law School

Nina Perales is Vice President of Litigation for MALDEF. Lucas Guttentag is senior counsel and founding national director of the Immigrants’ Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and Yale Law School Distinguished Senior Fellow in Residence. The event organizers have request 2 hours of CLE.

Lunch provided. Please RSVP to Rachel Sidopulos, rsidopulos@law.utexas.edu, by March 22 to reserve your spot.

Cosponsored by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and the Immigration and Nationality Section of the State Bar of Texas

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/28/15849/

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, The Texas Observer, and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History will host a panel discussion entitled “The Legacy of the Dirty Thirty.” The panel will explore a pivotal period in Texas politics in the early ’70s when a group of lawmakers, known as the Dirty Thirty, challenged the influence of special interest in the Legislature and the power of House leadership.

Panelists will be Sissy Farenthold, Dirty Thirty member and former gubernatorial candidate; Tom Bass, Dirty Thirty member and former Harris County commissioner; Terry O’Rourke, legal strategist, Dirty Thirty; Ronnie Dugger, founding editor of The Texas Observer. The moderator will be State Rep. Ana Hernandez Luna of Houston.

The event is free and open to the public. RSVP at Walthall@texasobserver.org.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/28/16098/

Join TLF at Bar 96 before bar review from 8 - 10 to celebrate the success of this year's Pledge Drive! Receive 1 free drink ticket at the door for every $25 given during Pledge Drive, up to 4 drinks. See you there!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/28/16447/

Early registration for Fall 2013 through the Law School website only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/29/13891/

Apply for a positon on the Texas Law Fellowships (TLF) Board! Information and applications available at texaslawfellowships.org. Applications due on Monday, April 8th by 5:00pm.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/29/16451/

The Medical Malpractice Round table will be on March 29th, 2013. It will be a one day event with a dinner either the night before or the night of March 29. Please save the date.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/29/14277/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/29/15148/

Reminder for 3Ls planning to sit for the Texas July 2013 Bar Exam: in order to sit for the exam, your In-State Application to Take the TX Bar Exam must be post-marked by March 30. This deadline is strictly enforced.

Applicants who have not yet filed their Declaration of Intention to Study Law must do so prior to or with their In-State Application.

The TX BLE is not open on weekends. If you would like to hand deliver your completed application by the preceding Friday, their office is located at:

205 W. 14th St. Ste 500, Austin, TX 78701

You're encouraged to arrive well in advance of the 5 PM closing time.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/30/14764/

Apply for a positon on the Texas Law Fellowships (TLF) Board! Information and applications available at texaslawfellowships.org. Applications due on Monday, April 8th by 5:00pm.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/30/16452/