MCLE Credit:
10.00 CLE credits, including 1.00 hour of ethics*
*The CLE hours for this conference are SELF-REPORTED to the State Bar.
Thursday, September 17, 2026
| 7:30 - 8:45 am | Breakfast |
8:45 - 9:00 am | Session 1 - Welcome (Capital Ballroom) Daniel H. Sharphorn, Vice Chancellor & General Counsel, UT System |
| 9:00 - 10:00 am (1.00 CLE credit*) | Session 2 - Beyond Constitutional Autonomy: Four Prodigal Lawyers Return with Lessons from Life After 78701 (and 78249) (Capital Ballroom) Omar Syed, Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Rice University (Former Associate Vice Chancellor & Deputy General Counsel, UT System) |
10:00 - 10:45 am (0.75 CLE credit*) | Session 3 - Linking the Chains: In-House Counsel and Enterprise Risk Management (Capital Ballroom) Kathy Carlson, J.D., LL.M., CCEP, Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer, UT System |
| 10:45 -11:45 am (1.00 CLE credit*) | Session 4 - Cybersecurity In the Age of AI (Capital Ballroom) George Finney, J.D., Chief Information Security Officer, UT System |
11:45 am - 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:00 pm (1.0 CLE credit*) | Session 5 - Two Courts: One Conversation (Capital Ballroom) The Honorable Priscilla Richman, Fifth Circuit Judge The Honorable Nathan Hecht, Former Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court Moderator: Kristi Godden, Associate General Counsel, OGC General Law, UT System |
| 2:00 - 3:00 pm (1.0 CLE credit; 0.50 ethics credit*) | Session 6 - Wanna Bet? What Texans Should Know About Betting (Capital Ballroom) Bob Latham, Partner, Jackson Walker, LLP, Dallas, TX |
| 3:00 - 3:15 pm | Break |
| 3:15 - 4:00 pm (0.75 CLE credit*) | Session 7A - Because Title IX Has Opinions About Your Athletic Budget (Capital Ballroom) Damon Derrick, Chief Legal Officer, Stephen F. Austin State University - UT System |
| 3:15 - 4:00 pm (0.75 CLE credit*) | Session 7B - Hospital Regulatory Update: Provider-Based Compliance, 340B, and Other Hot Topics (Assembly Room) Gregory N. Etzel, Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Houston, TX |
| 4:15 - 5:00 pm (.75 CLE credit*) | Session 8 - Jeoparty! Battle of the Systems! (UT v. Texas A&M v. Texas State) (Capital Ballroom) Host: Lee Roy Calderon, Associate General Counsel, OGC General Law, UT System Texas A&M University System Contestant: Texas State University System Contestant: |
| 5:15pm | Happy Hour & Dinner at BOA Steakhouse Have a wonderful evening. |
Friday, September 18, 2026
| 7:45 - 8:45 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 10:00 am (1.0 CLE credit*) | Session 9 - GLD and UT System: Working Together to Get the Win (Capital Ballroom) Kim Gdula, Chief, General Litigation Division, Office of the Attorney General Paige Barnett, Asst. Vice Chancellor & Managing Counsel, General Law, OGC, UT System Laura Barbour, Chief Legal Officer, UTRGV Shelby Boseman, Chief Legal Officer, UT Arlington |
| 10:00 - 11:00 am (1.00 CLE credit; 0.50 ethics credit*) | Session 10 - Bystanders and Enablers: The Need for Accountability (Capital Ballroom) Amos Guiora, Professor, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Director of the Bystander Initiative |
| 11:00 - 11:45 am (0.75 CLE credit*) | Session 11 - The Puzzle of Justice-Seeking in the Constitution(Capital Ballroom) Lawrence Sager, Professor, Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair in Law, UT School of Law |
| 11:45am - 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:00 pm (1.00 CLE credit*) | Session 12 - In Conversation with Coach Mack Brown (Capital Ballroom) Coach Mack Brown, Former UT Austin Head Football Coach Moderator: Sean Flammer, Associate General Counsel, OGC General Law, UT System |
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