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2011 Ms. JD Fellowship
By Ms. JD • March 08, 2011 •Mentoring and Networking
We are thrilled to announce the opening of our 2011 Fellowship application period. Ms. JD's Fellowship offers 2L students a unique mentoring opportunity with an ABA Margaret Brent Award Winner.Fellowship winners will be flown to Toronto for this year's awards ceremony on August 7th. The 2011 Margaret Brent Award Winners are:Eleanor Dean Acheson, Vice President General Corporate Counsel & Corporate Secretary, National Railroad Passenger; in Washington DCPaulette Brown, Partner, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP; in Madison, NJKaren J. Mathis, President & CEO, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America; in Philadelphia, PAColonel Maritza Ryan, United States Military Academy; in West Point, NYThe Honorable Esther Tomljanovich,…
Networking for Law Students - Ms. JD’s First Podcast with Law School Podcaster
By jessie kornberg • January 17, 2011 •Mentoring and Networking
So excited to be able to share our first collaboration with Law School Podcaster! This first podcast is completely free and features Ms. JD Writers in Residence Katie Hayes and Frank Kimball as well as Ms. JD sponsor Munger, Tolles & Olson associate Kim Encinas. The topic is networking. The advice is geared for law students, but more broadly applicable. The program has concrete advice about how to make and maintain contact to expand your professional network. Enjoy!Networking 101: Essential Tips for Law Students
You’re Not Networking - You’re Connecting
By Franklyn Kimball • December 09, 2010 •Writers in Residence, Mentoring and Networking
My New Year’s Resolution for 2011 is to banish the word networking. It’s become tiresome, predictable, and cliche ridden, conjuring up images of people working rooms, collecting cards, and investing way too much time in LinkedIn, Facebook, and updating the synch software on their Blackberry. The word for the new year is Connecting. Until you take the final step of connecting - personally, old school - the network is incomplete and useless. Once you connect it’s the most powerful weapon in your arsenal. Plus, and this is top secret, it’s fun. Since human beings came out of the caves and formed…
Better Late than Never: Free Passes to Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier
By jessie kornberg • November 30, 2010 •Mentoring and Networking
On Thursday, December 3rd at 3 pm EST Carolyn Elefant and Nicole Black will be running a webinar on social media for female attorneys. I have two free passes for the first two students who email me (kornberg@ms-jd.org) and a discount code fo all the other Ms. JD readers interested in listening in (just enter discount code some4wola and save $5).From the program description:Social media plays to women lawyer’s professional strengths…so it’s unfortunate that more women lawyers aren’t playing with social media. Many reasons explain women’s underrepresentation: some women are simply not convinced of the value of social media, some…
It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who You Know. OK Now What?
By jessie kornberg • November 24, 2010 •Mentoring and Networking
They say it's not what you know, it's who you know. I say, thank goodness. It's so much easier to make a new acquaintance than to learn a new skill. People too often assume that unless your "who you know" is the boss, then your network isn't very valuable. They couldn't be more wrong. My first job out of college came to me via my ex-boyfriend's teammate's bible study partner. She wasn't the boss, not by a long shot. But she saw my resume when it came in the fax and pulled it. That's all it takes.This Thanksgiving take a…
Programming Details for Ms. JD’s 4th Annual Conference on Women in Law
By jessie kornberg • November 18, 2010 •Mentoring and Networking
Stand Up! Stand Out! Ms. JD’s 4th Annual Conference on Women in Law, promises to be the marquis event for female law students and junior attorneys this year. We will be celebrating Ms. JD’s 5th Birthday and gathering roughly 350 student leaders and recent graduates from around the country for this special event. The details of the event are coming together. Highlights include a repeat of our student skills workshop ( a huge success last year), 6 panels for recent grads and mid-level attorneys, a career planning workshop and some great networking opportunities. More details, including panel descriptions here. Stay…
Heads Up SF & Chicago: 2 Great Events Coming Up
By jessie kornberg • October 13, 2010 •Mentoring and Networking
Two great events in the coming weeks warrant a plug:Women in Law Firms: Is Progress Being Made? October 28, 2010 - Chicago, ILStephanie Scharf, President of the National Association of Women Lawyers Foundation, will discuss the just-released findings of the Fifth Annual Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms. Following this presentation, Roberta Liebenberg, Chair of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, will give an overview of the recent study completed by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, Project for Attorney Retention, and the Commission on Women on how law firms distribute billing origination credit and…
Nominate an Outstanding Woman Lawyer for the 2011 ABA Margaret Brent Awards!
By jessie kornberg • September 28, 2010 •Mentoring and Networking
The ABA Commission on Women in the Profession is accepting nominations for the 21st Annual Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award. This award, established in 1991, honors five outstanding women attorneys who have achieved professional excellence within their area of specialty and have actively paved the way to success for other women lawyers. These women demonstrate excellence in a variety of professional settings and personify excellence on either the national, regional, or local level. Beginning in 2010, Ms. JD drew from this distinguished group for mentorship for Ms. JD's Fellowship winners.Previous winners range from small-firm practitioners in Alabama and Alaska…
From the Desk of the working Mom: Who Are Your “Friends”?
By Jennifer Guenther • September 08, 2010 •Writers in Residence, Mentoring and Networking
We all like to think that it is one big happy family at work: that when we go to lunch with a co-worker, we are really having a conversation with a friend. And why not? As lawyers, we spend more time with our co-workers than we do with our families, let alone our BFF or old college buddies. Who else are we going to share a laugh with about the case we just won?But what happens when we “friend” a co-worker on-line? Or a boss? Or a client? While it may initially seem like good business sense to respond positively…