Next Week in LCS- 1/27/2012

Happy Friday from Law Career Services!

Grow Your Network: Defining Goals While Seeking Opportunities & Promoting Others Wednesday, February 1, 5:30-8:00pm: 11th Floor DePaul Center: Join DePaul University's ASK Program in collaboration with attorneys Mitchell Goldberg, Lisa Zulanas, Dan Cotter, and LCS' Bonnie Tunick, for this special networking workshop, designed to bring ASK mentors, students, recent graduates, and professionals together for an informal networking training session. The workshop will include a panel discussion on joint networking skills and, after the panel discussion, participants will have an opportunity to receive on-the-spot coaching. Don't forget to bring business cards if you have them. Please RSVP: http://ask.depaul.edu/Notifications/Events/2012_Workshop_-_GROW_Your_Netw.html

Creating Effective Connections. Thursday, February 2, 11:45am-12:45pm and 4:15-5:15pm, 903 Lewis: Learn how to work a room, create and retain strategic connections, optimize mock and informational interviews, manage your social media, and more... This program will be helpful for upcoming events such as the DePaul Law Auction (February 3) and Practice Tracks (February 16). Attendance is MANDATORY for the Mock Interview Program (March 5-9). Additional Dates RSVP on Symplicity

Midwest Public Interest Law Career Conference: Saturday, February 4th: The Midwest Public Interest Law Career Conference (MPILCC) will be held at Northwestern Law School on Saturday, February 4th. The conference is a great way for students to find a public interest job and to learn more about public interest employers. Students may still participate whether or not they previously registered for the Conference. Click for More Info

Reminder: Midwest Public Interest Law Career Conference: February 4th

The Midwest Public Interest Law Career Conference will be held at Northwestern Law School on Saturday, February 4^th in Chicago.  The conference is a great way for  students to find a public interest job and to learn more about public interest employers.  Students may still participate whether or not they previously registered for the Conference. 

Upcoming CBA Meetings for Week of January 30, 2012

January 31
Domestic Relations, Collaborative Law Subcommittee (IL MCLE Credit)
Discussion of attorney's role in the collaborative process and more.

Georges Fellowship for Conservation: Environmental Law at the Shedd

The Shedd Aquarium, through a grant from the Georges Foundation, is pleased to offer the Georges Fellowship for Conservation, a summer internship opportunity, to a qualified candidate selected through a competitive application process.

The Georges Fellowship includes: an eight-week summer internship with Shedd’s conservation department focusing on environmental policy research, mentoring by a practicing environmental law attorney, and a $5,000 stipend.  For more information, see job posting #15728 in Symplicity.

Creating Effective Connections Program: February Dates

  Learn how to work a room, create and retain strategic connections, optimize mock and informational interviews, manage your social media, and more... This program will be helpful for upcoming events such as the DePaul Law Auction (February 3) and Practice Tracks (February 16).  Attendance is MANDATORY for the Mock Interview Program (March 5-9).

Creative Effective Communications will be offered at the following times:

Etiquette Tip of the Week: Let Them Eat...Lunch

If someone is eating lunch at his or her desk, do not loom and ask, "What's for lunch?"  Do not interrupt the person and try to do business. Give them some space.  Respect the lunch.  It's a lot like when people are on the phone - do not hover in the door of their office or cubicle / veal fattening pen.  Unless the building is on fire, do not interrupt them.

Feb. 1st: Grow Your Network: Defining Goals While Seeking Opportunities & Promoting Others

Join DePaul University’s ASK Program in collaboration with attorneys Mitchell Goldberg, Lisa Zulanas, Dan Cotter, and Law Career Service’s Bonnie Tunick, for this special networking workshop, designed to bring ASK mentors, students, recent graduates, and professionals together for an informal networking training session.

Mock Interview Program Coming This Spring!

Practice makes perfect. We’ve all heard it and rolled our eyes, but the reason so many people say it is it happens to be true. Practice can even make you feel better about job interviews, believe it or not, and that’s why Law Career Services has a Mock Interview Program.

CBA News & Announcements

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Upcoming CBA Volunteer Opportunities

YLS e-Mentoring Program
The YLS is teaming up with Chicago Public Schools’ Richards Career Academy to host its annual e-mentoring program. The program serves approximately 40 high school students enrolled in Law & Public Safety. Over a 14-week period, lawyer volunteers commit to participating in a February 8 kick-off lunch at the CBA, a weekly email exchange, a mid-term visit to Richards Career Academy, and a May 15 closing lunch at the CBA. Topics of the e-mail exchanges include substantive legal

Patent Bar 101 by the Practising Law Institute: February 9th

Join the Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology and Law Career Services for a Patent Bar 101 Discussion with John M. White of the Practising Law Institute. Topics include: the latest info on the Patent Bar Exam, Who can take it, How it works (now that it's computer-based), When you should take it (you don't need to…and probably shouldn't…wait until you graduate), How and when the American Invents Act will impact the Exam, and, Recommendations on when and how to study for this very difficult Exam.

Upcoming CBA Continuing Legal Education

Non-Jury Civil Trials: Practicing Law on the Eleventh Floor of the Daley Center (2.75 IL MCLE Credit)
January 23/3:00-6:00 p.m./$80 Member/$160 Nonmember/$60 Gov't Member

Alternative Dispute Resolution in Family Law Matters (2.75 IL MCLE Credit)

Brand Your Intentions, Your Intentions Will Brand You

Brand your intentions, your intentions will brand you.  New age hooey?  Or sound advice?  Me thinketh the latter.  As professionals and business people today, having a clarity of purpose and intentions in our personal and business relationships and putting that out there as a branded entity can greatly increase our chances for success.

Upcoming 1L Government Internship and Honors Deadlines

The following government programs have 1L deadlines coming up in the next few weeks.  Details of these programs are provided in the 2011-12 Government Honors & Internship Handbook, located at https://www.law.arizona.edu/career/honorshandbook.cfm.

3L Government Honors and Internship Deadlines

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The following government programs have 3L deadlines coming up in the next few weeks.  Details of these programs are provided in the 2011-12 Government Honors & Internship Handbook, located at https://www.law.arizona.edu/career/honorshandbook.cfm.

Spring Programs

·         Houston Legal Department – Student Externships (Unpaid, Deadline 01/31/12)

Upcoming 2L Government Honors and Internship Deadlines

The following government programs have 2L deadlines coming up in the next few weeks.  Details of these programs are provided in the 2011-12 Government Honors & Internship Handbook, located at https://www.law.arizona.edu/career/honorshandbook.cfm.

Summer Programs