by richmondlawcdo | Jul 19, 2022 | Advice for Students, Summer Success
by Mary Crane Over the next few weeks, your time as a summer associate or intern will rapidly come to a close. Do the following ten things to ensure that you leave on a high note: Transition work. Turn in completed work assignments. For any incomplete work that...
by richmondlawcdo | May 17, 2022 | Advice for Students, Summer Success
by Mary Crane If you are about to start a summer job, you must turn in a superlative performance during the next several weeks. Thus far, your GPA has demonstrated that you are able to acquire legal skills. Your summer employment will give you the opportunity to...
by richmondlawcdo | Dec 7, 2021 | Advice for Students
This is the latest installment of Tales from the Trenches, a series of advice columns by students for students. Contributed by Chloe Hilliard (L’22) and Liz Jacobs (L’23), members of the Career Development Student Advisory Board. Winter break brings time to relax and...
by richmondlawcdo | Sep 28, 2021 | Advice for Students
by Carole Yeatts Director, Career Development Office When my dad attended this law school in the late 1960s, Dean William Muse embodied the career placement office. (Check out his name over the door of the Richmond Law library.) If a law firm wanted to hire a recent...
by richmondlawcdo | May 28, 2021 | Advice for Students, Networking
by Ben Rigney (L’22) Being a first-generation law student presents unique challenges. One of those challenges is networking: As a first-generation law student, there isn’t a built-in network of attorneys to look to for job prospects. What I found, however, is...
by richmondlawcdo | May 28, 2021 | Advice for Students, Interview Skills
by Caroline Jaques (L’22) I participated in the Southeastern Minority Job Fair (SEMJF) last October. Typically, SEMJF is held in Atlanta in July, but because of the pandemic it was conducted virtually in 2020. I did ten interviews with firms primarily in Texas,...
