Career Preparation

Building experience is an important component of your time in law school, especially if you are looking to work in public service after graduation. Law school offers an excellent opportunity for experimentation—not as easy upon graduation—while you build the demonstrated commitment to public service that so many employers seek. Summer jobs offer the largest blocks of time to explore a type of work or practice setting. But clinical, student practice organization, pro bono and volunteer placements also can give you terrific exposure to different aspects of public interest practice and allow you to develop marketable credentials. Courses and work on a journal are a way to explore your interest in a particular set of issues and to demonstrate knowledge and writing skills in the field. Students are also increasingly using winter term of their 2L and 3L years to do short term placements through the clinical program or the writing option.

• Clinical and Pro Bono Overview
• Public Interest Course Suggestions
• Student Practice
• Pro Bono Requirement
• Law Reviews/Journals
• Job Search Database