Posts
• Send holiday and/or New Year cards/emails to former supervisors, colleagues, faculty or anyone else with whom you’ve been out of touch. Bring them up to date on your life, school and the job search. Ask if they can keep their eyes out for you or share referrals. Consider asking for short meetings to re-connect.
• Search summer surveys on HastingsCareersOnline and contact classmates who completed surveys on employers of interest. Ask when and how they applied and to whom you should apply.
• Swing by the office and complete a form for an alumni database search in your practice area or location of interest. Email those alums and ask for a brief informational meeting over the Winter Break.
• Run a search on martindale on Lexis for attorneys who attended both your undergraduate college and Hastings [college (enter name) and law-school (hastings) and city (a or b or c)]. Reach out to those attorneys for informational meetings. You can also run searches on martindale.com (except you can only search by law school there). Look for Hastings alums who do the work that interests you in your cities of interest.
• Attend holiday parties and look for continuing legal education courses offered by the county bar, or other entities such as Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) or the Practising Law Institute (PLI)….these are great experiences that you can add to your resume to bolster your experience. They are also great places to meet attorneys who do the work that interests you.
• Not sure yet what interests you? Do some reading about career options. Swing by the Career Office to look at our full library or check out some of these classic texts: The Official Guide to Legal Specialties, America’s Greatest Places to Work with a Law Degree, My First Year as a Lawyer, Beyond LA Law.
• We are actually open through December 23 and we will re-open on Monday, January 3rd.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and holiday break.
Cheers,
Sari
