DePaul Law Career Services

Cultivate Your Career Over Spring Break

Spring Break is quickly approaching.  This is a good time to cultivate your career by setting up a few coffee dates with “strategic friends.”  How do you do this?  Reach out to practitioners doing what you want to do and ask them for coffee dates to learn about their practices and career paths.  Where do you find these people? 

Consult the “4 or More List,” which you can access from the quick link on your Symplicity home page.  Look up firms in the Chicagoland area with 4 or more attorneys targeting your practice areas of interest; DePaul alumni are listed in the second tab. 

The Business of Lawyering: Tuesday, March 12th, 341 Lewis, 11:50am, pizza

What does the business of lawyering really entail?  A panel of attorneys from diverse practices will tell you what other-than-academic skills new lawyers (and lawyers-to-be) must have to succeed in their practices.  These skills might include people (building relationships), sales (bringing in business), writing (client letters and in-house emails), presentation, business development, management, accounting, corporate structure, and more.

The practitioners will also suggest ways to gain these skills, whether in law school (recommended classes), in an internship (asking for business experience), or outside activities (writing courses, Toastmasters, etc.).

Panelists:
Peter Miller, Partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Michael Wilder, Associate at Littler Mendelson
Monica-Kaye Gamble, Associate at Swedberg & Hodgkinson
Marla Morgen, Senior Associate General Counsel at DePaul University

Tuesday, March 12th, Lewis 341, 11:50am-12:50pm

***Pizza will be served. Please RSVP on Symplicity so we know how much food to order.***

Practice Tracks Attorney Bio Books Available

If you missed Practice Tracks, it's not too late to make important connections with attorney participants  in your areas of interest.  Stop by Law Career Services in the Student Services Suite (300 Lewis) to pick up a copy of the 2013 Practice Tracks practitioner biography book.  These practitioners are warm networking opportunities.

Marine Corps JAG Informational Interviews

Marine Corps JAG will be on campus Wednesday, February 27 for informational interviews. 

Please sign up in Symplicity under the Events Tab by RSVPing for a slot.  Students must RSVP.

Students must upload resumes to Symplicity or email them to Elizabeth Boe, eboe@depaul.edu, by noon (12:00pm) Monday, February  25.  

When: Wednesday, February 27

Where: Law Career Services (Student Services Suite 300)

Practice Tracks 2/21: Make a Connection that Could Create Your Career!

Practice Tracks is tomorrow --  Meet practitioners from over 50 different practice areas.  Come dressed for success with your business cards and questions ready to ask practitioners in your practice areas of interest.  Make strategic friends.  Set up a coffee date or two.  This unmatched networking opportunity will be held at the Chicago Bar Association on Thursday, February 21^st from 5-6:30pm.  If you have class, stay long enough to make a strategic connection or two.  Don’t miss this event.  Jobs, mentors, and more have been originated at Practice Tracks!

Not quite sure how to successfully network?  Attend Creating Effective Connections today, Wednesday, February 20^th from 4:30-5:30pm in Lewis 341.  Learn how to work a room, create and retain strategic connections, optimize mock and informational interviews, manage your social media, and more!  Pizza will be served.  Please RSVP on Symplicity so we know how much to order.

DePaul's Career Week Starts Sunday

Stop by DePaul’s sixth annual Career Week for a series of career-related activities and seminars. Career Week, a University-wide week of programming, events are open to current DePaul students, including CPE, and alumni. Events take place on the Loop, Lincoln Park and suburban campuses.

Career Week events are open to current DePaul students, including CPE students, and DePaul alumni.  These events will be especially useful for students in career transition and adult students. 

We highly recommend stopping by these events to aid your job search or career transition:

• Finding Your Way to the Right Career – Monday, February 18 at 3:00 - 4:00pm
• G.R.O.W Your Network: Defining Goals While Seeking Opportunities & Promoting Others - Wednesday, February 20 at 12:30 - 2:00pm
• Ask the Career Advisor – Thursday, February 21 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm
• Networking is Dead – Friday, February 22 at 9:00am – 10:00am

Make a Connection that Could Create Your Career at Practice Tracks

Meet practitioners from over 50 different practice areas at Practice Tracks.  Come dressed for success with your business cards and questions ready to ask practitioners in your practice areas of interest.  Make strategic friends.  Set up a coffee date or two.  This unmatched networking opportunity will be held at the Chicago Bar Association on Thursday, February 21^st from 5-6:30pm.  If you have class, stay long enough to make a strategic connection or two.  Don’t miss this event.  Jobs, mentors, and more have been originated at Practice Tracks!

Not quite sure how to successfully network?  Attend Creating Effective Connections on Wednesday, February 20^th from 4:30-5:30pm in Lewis 341.  Learn how to work a room, create and retain strategic connections, optimize mock and informational interviews, manage your social media, and more!  Pizza will be served.  Please RSVP on Symplicity so we know how much to order.

2013 Loyola Patent Law Interview Program - Registration Now Open!

Student registration for the 2013 Loyola Patent Law Interview Program is now open and will run until Monday, March 4^th. 

The Loyola Patent Law Interview Program is a two-day interview program held in Chicago each summer that brings together patent law employers and law students from across the country to interview for summer associate positions and post-graduate employment.

The 2013 Patent Law Interview Program will be accepting registrations from:

• JD students graduating in May/June 2014 (Rising 3Ls)
• JD students graduating in May/June 2015 (Rising 2Ls)
• JD students graduating in December 2013/January 2014 (Rising 3Ls)
• JD students graduating in December 2014/January 2015 (Rising 2Ls)
• Students in Intellectual Property LLM programs with anticipated graduation dates in 2014 and 2015 (LLMs)

Register online 

Please contact Elizabeth Boe (eboe@depaul.edu) with any questions.  

Make a Connection that Could Create Your Career at Practice Tracks

Meet practitioners from over 50 different practice areas at Practice Tracks.  Come dressed for success with your business cards and questions ready to ask practitioners in your practice areas of interest.  Make strategic friends.  Set up a coffee date or two.  This unmatched networking opportunity will be held at the Chicago Bar Association on Thursday, February 21^st from 5-6:30pm.  If you have class, stay long enough to make a strategic connection or two.  Don’t miss this event.  Jobs, mentors, and more have been originated at Practice Tracks!

Not quite sure how to successfully network?  Attend Creating Effective Connections on Wednesday, February 20^th from 4:30-5:30pm in Lewis 341.  Learn how to work a room, create and retain strategic connections, optimize mock and informational interviews, manage your social media, and more!  Pizza will be served.  Please RSVP on Symplicity so we know how much to order.

Landing Your First Legal Job – Tues, 2/5 at noon – RSVP ASAP

15-year-veteran attorney Troy Groetken will discuss resume writing, job hunting, networking, the value of experience and interviewing etiquette.  This will be a great review of the basic skills you need to master to find your first legal job.  Mr. Groetken is a great speaker; all class year students are encouraged to attend.  Lunch will be served!

 February 5^th, 2013, 12:00-1:00pm, Lewis Center – Room 804

 RSVP deadline (for accurate food ordering): 5 pm today (2/4/13) to Katie Johnson at kjohn133@depaul.edu.