Academic Calendar

Please check back often as dates will be added.

Note: Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. in the Alcoa Room will be held for Faculty Enrichment, with specific programs to be announced.

Fall 2019 Semester

2019-2020 Academic Calendar Download

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Pitt Law Academy will be held on the following dates. Programmatic details for each Pitt Law Academy will be amended when available.

Fall 2019 semester

• September 19, 2019, 3:30 p.m., Courtroom
  If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Thoughts from Prominent Lawyers on What They Should Have Done (and Not Done) when They Were in Law School
  
  Speakers:
  - Hon. Hugh Fitzpatrick McGough,, Judge, Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas;
  - Geovette Washington, Senior Vice Chancellor and Chief Legal Officer, University of Pittsburgh
  - David J. Kalson, Director, Cohen & Grisgby

• October 17, 2019, 3:30 p.m., Courtroom
  First-Year Law School Subjects in the “Real World”: Legislation and Regulation
  
  Speakers:
  - Josh Hodges, Associate, Horty, Springer, & Mattern, P.C.
  - Bryan Marco, Deputy Counsel, New Jersey Legislature, Office of Legislative Services
  - Melissa Marshall, Esq., Community Advocate, Mountain Watershed Association
  - Bethany E. Miller, Managing Senior Counsel, Business Credit & Corporate Banking, PNC Bank

• November 21, 2019, 3:30 p.m., Courtroom
  Diversity, Inclusion, and Empathy: Working with Clients, Fellow Lawyers, and Others from Different Backgrounds and Cultures
  
  Speakers:
  - Hon. Cathy Bissoon, District Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
  - Blair Douglass, Administrator, University of Pittsburgh Physician Scientist Training Program
  - Morgan Moody, Staff Attorney, KidsVoice
  - Mark T. Phillis, Shareholder, Littler Mendelson, P.C.

Spring 2020 semester (speakers TBD)

• January 16, 2020, 3:30 p.m., Courtroom
  First-Year Law School Subjects in the “Real World”: Torts and Contracts

• February 20, 2020, 3:30 p.m., Courtroom
  First-Year Law School Subjects in the "Real World": Legal Analysis & Writing ​ 

• March 19, 2020, 3:30 p.m., Courtroom
  Mental Health and Substance ABuse in Law School and the Legal Profession: Good Advice and Cautionary Tales
   

Fall 2018 Semester

Note: Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. in the Alcoa Room will be held for Faculty Enrichment, with specific programs to be announced.

Spring 2019 Semester

Note: Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. in the Alcoa Room will be held for Faculty Enrichment, with specific programs to be announced.

2018-2019 Academic Calendar Download

Pitt Law Academy will be held on the following dates. Programmatic details for each Pitt Law Academy will be amended when available.

Fall 2018 semester

• September 6, 2018, 3:30 p.m., Room 107
  If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Thoughts from Prominent Lawyers on What They Should Have Done (and Not Done) when They Were in Law School
  
  Speakers:
  - Jeanne Marie Marquette, Partner, Olds Russ Marquette & Peace LLC
  - Hon. Hugh Fitzpatrick McGough, Judge, Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas
  - Tony J. Thompson, Partner, Meyer Unkovic & Scott LLP

• September 20, 2018, 3:30 p.m., Courtroom
  First-Year Law School Subjects in the “Real World”: Legislation and Regulation
  
  Speakers:
  - Vanessa N. Griffith, Staff Attorney, Western PA Justice at Work
  - Bryan Marco, Deputy Counsel, New Jersey Legislature, Office of Legislative Services
  - Laura Mullen, Senior Attorney, Argo AI
  - Endia J. Vereen, Associate, Sherrard, German & Kelly, P.C.

• October 18, 2018, 3:30 p.m., Courtroom
  Stress, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse in Law School and the Legal Profession: Good Advice and Cautionary Tales
  
  Speakers:
  - Laurie J. Besden, Esq., Executive Director, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers of Pennsylvania, Inc.
  - Iru Brodie-Mends, LCSW, Interim Clinical Director and Senior Staff Counselor, University of Pittsburgh Counseling Center

• November 8, 2018, 3:30 p.m., Courtroom
  Practicing and Promoting Civility: The Role of Lawyers and the Legal Profession
  
  Speakers:
  - Honorable Thomas M. Hardiman, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
  - Edwin L. Edwards Jr., Of Counsel, Blank Rome LLP
  - Colleen Ramage Johnston, Founding Member, Johnston Lykos

Spring 2019 semester

• January 17, 2019, 3:30 p.m., Courtroom
  First-Year Law School Subjects in the “Real World”: Torts and Criminal Law
  
  Speakers:
  - Katie M. Charlton, District Attorney, Armstrong County
  - Jennifer L. Webster, Attorney, SPK, Swensen Perer Law Firm
  - Jason E. Hazlewood, Partner, Reed Smith
  - Frank Walker, Frank Walker Law

• February 7, 2019, 3:30 p.m., Courtroom
  Empathy and Diversity: Working with Clients and Others from Different Backgrounds and Cultures​ 
  
  Speakers:
  - Stefan Dann, Associate, Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe LLC
  - Noah R. Jordan, Associate, Rothman Gordon
  - Shanicka L. Kennedy, Assistant United States Attorney, Western District of Pennsylvania
  - Charles T. Kotuby, Jr., Partner, Jones Day
  - Summer Lee, Representative, 34th District, Pennsylvania House of Representatives

• February 21, 2019, 3:30 p.m., Courtroom
  First-Year Law School Subjects in the “Real World”: Contracts and Property
  
  Speakers:
  - Erin McCurdy, Associate General Counsel, American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.
  - Kevin L. Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Legal Sifter
  - Kevin Quisenberry, Staff Attorney, Community Justice Project
  - Richard T. Ting, Partner, Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP

• March 7, 2019, 3:30 p.m., Courtroom
  First-Year Law School Subjects in the “Real World”: Constitutional Law and Civil Procedure
  
  Speakers:
  - Jennifer R. Andrade, Assistant United States Attorney and Chief, Civil Division, Western District of Pennsylvania
  - Margaret S. Coleman, Attorney, Law Offices of Timothy P. O’Brien
  - Kezia O. L. Taylor, Assistant City Solicitor, Department of Law, City of Pittsburgh

• March 28, 2019, 3:30 p.m., Courtroom
  First-Year Law School Subjects in the “Real World”: Legal Analysis & Writing

  Speakers:
  - Amanda R. Gerstnecker, Corporate Attorney, Cohen & Grigsby
  - Stephen R. Kaufman, First Assistant U.S. Attorney, Western District of Pennsylvania
  - Marie I. Rivera-Johnson, Director, Labor & Employment Group, Cohen & Grigsby