On Friday, November 15, 2024, from Noon-4 pm CST, the Houston Association of Law Librarians (HALL) and Dallas Association of Law Librarians (DALL) will be co-hosting a FREE virtual half-day legal information institute titled Texas Y’ALL Legal Institute. Open to all Texas-based law librarians and other legal information professionals, as well as those interested in the law and law librarianship from a Texas perspective.
Besides offering an online session, we will also be offering three in-person satellite locations in Austin, Dallas, and Houston. Registration for each of these sites will include lunch on the day. Space is limited for each site, however, so please register ASAP!
Registration is open until EOD Friday, November 1, 2024.
For more information, please contact David at David.baker@kirkland.com or Barbara at barbara.fullerton@dentons.com.
Here’s a sneak peek:
Welcome/Opening Remarks
12:00 pm-12:15 pm: David Baker, HALL Past President, Barbara Fullerton, DALL President
Keynote Speaker
12:15 pm-1:00 pm: Justice Jeffrey Boyd of the Supreme Court
Moderator: Andre Davison, Harris County Law Library
Session 1
1:00 pm-1:30 pm: Learn about the new Business Courts with guest speaker Judge Grant Dorfman (11th Division, Harris County)
Moderator: Nick Brown, Partner, Kirkland
Session 2
1:30 pm-2:00 pm: Need to know about the Texas Stock Exchange coming in 2025? Professor Steven Pedigo, University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs and an expert in economic urban development, weighs in on how this will affect Texas and other stock exchanges
Moderator: Terri Lawrence, Director of Library and Information, Winstead PC
Break
2:00-2:15 pm
Session 3
2:15-3 pm: Texas data and resources-Hear about what’s new
Panelists
Writer Brooks Igo and Founder Mark Curriden, Texas Lawbook
Melanie Harshman from the Texas Legislative Reference Library
Shri Boyapati-SearchTX’s Senior Product Owner
Additional panelists: TBA
Moderator: Lee Bernstein, Senior Library Manager, Haynes and Boone
Session 4
3:00-3:45 pm: Rounding up the afternoon will be a panel discussion on what is happening in our court, government, private law firms, and academic law libraries and legal information entities
Panelists
Melody Barron-Law Librarian, Hays County Law Library
Ashley Arrington, Head of Instruction; Associate Librarian of Law, Texas Tech School of Law
Cara Sitton, Library Director at Dell DeHay Law Library of Tarrant County
Law Firm: TBA
Moderator: Jamie Baker, Associate Dean and Director of the Law Library
Closing Remarks
3:45-4:00 pm: Barbara Fullerton, DALL President and Michelle Woods, HALL Presiden
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