David P. Lopez, General Counsel for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will speak about EEOC’s work, particularly the efforts of its Office of the General Counsel and EEOC cases presented before the Supreme Court, at Texas A&M University School of Law on Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, at noon.

Lopez will discuss “My Year in the Supreme Court: Young v. UPS, Mach Mining v. EEOC, and Abercrombie v. EEOC”  with students, faculty, and administrators. The event, open to the public, will be held in the Law School’s Amon G. Carter Lecture Hall, 1515 Commerce Street, Fort Worth, TX. The presentation is sponsored by the Texas A&M School of Law Office of Career Services. Continuing legal education (CLE) credit for the program is pending.

Lopez will be accompanied by Mr. Robert Canino, Regional Director of the EEOC Dallas District Office. Invited participants include members of the Tarrant County Bar Association (TCBA) and Dallas Bar Association (DBA) Labor & Employment Law Section. The presentation will be followed by a reception in the Law School’s Bernie Schuchmann Conference Center.

On Thursday, Jan. 14, Lopez will be the luncheon speaker at the Advanced Employment Law Course, at 12:35 p.m., at the Westin Galleria Hotel, 13340 Dallas Parkway, Dallas, TX. The event is sponsored by the State Bar of Texas.

EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination.