Texas Y’ALL Legal Institute 2024

When:  Nov 15, 2024 from 12:00 to 16:00 (CT)

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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