It didn’t take long after moving to Fort Worth for Bobby Ahdieh to realize that blending in wasn’t going to be an option. Within a few minutes of opening his mouth to speak, the New Yorker is inevitably asked where he’s from. So instead, Ahdieh adopted what he calls his “I got here as quick as I could” approach.

The Hon. L. Clifford Davis, retired Texas senior district judge, was inducted as a Texas Legal Legend, by the Litigation Section of the State Bar at a ceremony held at the law school on April 8. Judge Davis, 99, whose legal career spans over seven decades, has an unmistakable legacy in law.

Texas A&M School of Law welcomed the deans of law schools in the Southeastern Conference. The SEC Law School Deans "Roundup" was held February 15-17 and provided a forum for the deans to collaborate and discuss pressing topics surrounding law schools, legal education, and the legal profession.  

Texas A&M School of Law Dean Robert B. Ahdieh recently received Downtown Fort Worth, Inc.‘s Innovation Trailblazer Award for his role in helping to inspire and encourage the creation of Texas A&M - Fort Worth, a several hundred-million dollar research and innovation campus. Construction will begin in June and comes at a key moment in the trajectory of law school.

Texas A&M School of Law's Residency Externship Program in Public Policy is launching a "Policy & The Law" speaker series this month in Fort Worth. 

Susan Fortney, Texas A&M University School of Law professor and director of the Program for the Advancement of Legal Ethics, is a panelist at the University of Oklahoma's Law Review, entitled Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Fortney's panel is "Self-Policing: AI and the Regulation of Lawyers."

Fortney is a leading expert in legal ethics and malpractice, lawyer regulation, law firm ethics and culture, attorneys’ professional liability insurance and health care and bioethics mediation. 

The CAP·impact Podcast interviewed Texas A&M University School of Law Professor Saurabh Vishnubhakat about his involvement with the refinement of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) patent review process within the U.S. Patent Office. 

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Vishnubhakat is an expert in intellectual property, patent law, civil procedure, administrative law and and economics. 

Texas A&M University School of Law professor, William Byrnes, is the only United States academic scholar selected by the scientific committee of International Congress to present at the “International Tax Cooperation” Congress 2019: Digital Economy, Transfer Pricing and Litigation in Tax Matters held this week in Barcelona, Spain. Byrnes will present to tax administrators and academics from over 50 countries.