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From Paralegal to Associate: “So You’re thinking about going to Law School?”
By Nadia Ennaji • January 25, 2018 •Writers in Residence, Careers, Law School, Pre-Law, Issues, Balancing Private and Professional Life
A paralegal has the greatest inside view of the legal practice as opposed to someone who decides to go law school straight out of college. Often, as a paralegal, you do tasks that are given to new associate, you may have attend a trial or two, and are familiar with the legal jargon: M&A documents, closing, and so forth. But is becoming a lawyer truly what you aspire to? What are the reasons for the change? For me it was a natural next step, I had always wanted to become an attorney, and being a paralegal was just an in-between…
Becoming a Pre-Law Leader on Campus - #MsJDPreLaw Mentoring Hangout (Ep. 02)
By Gennie #MsJDPreLaw • January 20, 2018 •Ms. JD, Writers in Residence, Careers, Firms and the Private Sector, Legal Academia, Law School, Pre-Law, Choosing a Career and Landing a Job, •Curriculum and Classroom Dynamics, Internships and Clerkships, Other Law School Issues
Watch the second episode of our #MsJDPreLaw Mentoring Hangouts on "Becoming a Pre-Law Leader on Campus"! This will be live-streamed at 12pm ET on Saturday, January 20, 2017, at tiny.cc/msjdprelawepisode2. Guest speakers are: Erin Callahan: Ms. JD Board Member. She was the President of Women in Law and The Student Bar Association at Dedman School of Law. Erin recently left the insurance industry and is now in private practice at a small firm in Houston, Texas. Moniel Sanders: Class of 2019 undergraduate at Indiana University Bloomington. President of the Pre-Law Black Law Student Association at Indiana University Bloomington. Margaret Zhu: Class…
How One Woman’s Law Path Enables Countless Others: Interview w/ Lynda Cevallos, Esq. & CLEO Director
By Tatum Wheeler • January 19, 2018 •Careers, Law School, Pre-Law
Lynda Cevallos is an attorney who has served for eleven years as a Director, Pre-Law Educational Activities and undergraduate adviser for the Council on Legal Education Opportunity, Inc. (CLEO). Before joining CLEO, Ms. Cevallos practiced for 4 years employment and labor law with a Washington, D.C., law firm and previously clerked for the National Labor Relations Board and the U.S. Department of Labor. She is a cum laude graduate of Rutgers University and also received an Associate’s in German from Schiller University in Heidelberg, Germany. She earned her Juris Doctorate from the Washington College of Law at American University, and is NY and…
App Happy: Add an Addendum
By Tatum Wheeler • January 06, 2018 •Law School, Pre-Law
Okay, so you feel like you got you got a good handle on your other materials. Your personal statement is flowing, you’ve got your transcripts in order (including your final grades), and you have a solid list of schools to apply to. In the attachments section of your applications, you notice a space for an “addendum.” For those unfamiliar, an addendum is an additional, supplementary statement used to provide further context and information on an otherwise unknown or unclear component of your application. Some schools require addenda (the plural of addendum) for various reasons. If you, for instance, answered yes…
#MsJDPreLaw at the NYC Bar’s LSAT/Law School Prep Series
By Gennie #MsJDPreLaw • January 05, 2018 •Ms. JD, Conference, Careers, Firms and the Private Sector, Legal Academia, Nonprofits and the Public Interest, Law School, Pre-Law, •Choosing a Career and Landing a Job, Other Law School Issues
Ms. JD was thrilled to co-sponsor the New York City Bar Association - Diversity and Inclusion Committee's LSAT/Law School Prep Series, held on January 5, 2018. In addition to a Law School Fair with representatives from schools around the country and workshops on the LSAT and personal statements, the event also featured two panels on "What to Expect & How to Succeed in Your 1L Year" and "How to Select & Apply to the Right Law School." #MsJDPreLaw spoke with a few of the law school admissions professionals at the fair and asked them: "What's one thing you'd like our pre-law readers to know about your school?"…
Building your Brand and Network as a Pre-Law Student - #MsJDPreLaw Mentoring Hangout (Ep. 01)
By Gennie #MsJDPreLaw • December 22, 2017 •Ms. JD, Conference, Writers in Residence, Careers, Firms and the Private Sector, Law School, Pre-Law, Choosing a Career and Landing a Job, •Issues, Mentoring and Networking
The Ms. JD Pre-Law Program is excited to launch the #MsJDPreLaw Mentoring Hangouts, a series of conversations between attorneys and pre-law students! Our first episode, on "building your brand and network as a pre-law student," will be streamed live at 12pm ET on Saturday, January 6, 2017, at tiny.cc/msjdprelawepisode1. Guest speakers are: Katie Larkin-Wong - litigation associate at Latham & Watkins, Commissioner at the ABA's Commission on Women in the Profession, and former President of Ms. JD Nikki Datta - Class of 2019 undergraduate at Columbia University, President of the Columbia University Women in Law and Politics, and 2017 Writer-in-Residence…
NYC Bar “LSAT/Law School Prep Series” (Jan 4-5, 2018)
By Genevieve Antono • December 18, 2017 •Ms. JD, Writers in Residence, Careers, Law School, Pre-Law
The City Bar’s LSAT/Law School Prep Series is a two-day seminar covering admissions, financing, and transitioning with regard to law school, with panels, sample LSAT prep classes, and a networking fair designed for undergraduates and recent graduates considering applying to law school. Students will have the chance to hear from and meet representatives from Harvard, Cornell, UC Berkeley, PowerScore, Princeton Review, and many more! When? January 4 & 5, 2018, 3:30-7:45pm Where? NYC Bar Association, 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY How? Register here: http://bit.ly/2zeTYnT A full agenda is available here Considering law school? There's still time to register for the NYC Bar…
Ms. Pre-JD: Learning the Value of Authenticity in 2017
By Nikki Datta • December 05, 2017 •Ms. JD, Writers in Residence, Law School, Pre-Law, Issues, Mentoring and Networking
After reading the application requirements for the 2018 Writers-in-Residence program, I was reminded of career advice I received this past Summer that permanently changed my path: “You have to be really good at what you do and you have to look for opportunities to expand what you do.” A simple answer from Esta Stecher, in response to someone asking the million-dollar question: “How can we become as successful as you have been? Any tips?” The answer was so simple that you could hear the eye-rolls from people around me, as they remarked on how obvious the advice was. For me,…
App Happy: The Personal Statement
By Tatum Wheeler • November 18, 2017 •Law School, Pre-Law
Que the Sports Center theme music. This critical portion of the application often draws looks of panic from applicants and many ambiguous answers from admissions departments. The Personal Statement should seemingly be simple. Who has a better understanding of who you are and why law school is right for you right now than you? Unfortunately, it often does not feel this way. What It’s Not: A personal statement is not a statement of purpose. A statement of purpose, typically used for graduate school admission, provides a summary of your experience in the context of your professional aspirations. It essentially sums…