Upcoming Events

Attorneys from Sidley Austin, including the chair of pro-bono in the Chicago office, are eager to share how a commitment to public interest pervades throughout their firm. Co-Sponsored by the HLS Midwest Club. Non-Pizza lunch will be provided.

Join the Women's Law Association for a lunch talk on what it means to be a woman in Private Equity. Partners and Attorneys from Kirkland & Ellis will share their experiences working within the Private Equity sector and provide guidance as to how to decide if this practice is ideal for you.

Join the Harvard Association for Law and Business for a conversation with David Lat: founder of Above The Law, legal recruiter at Lateral Link and author of "Supreme Ambitions: A Novel." David previously worked as a federal prosecutor, a litigation associate at Wachtell Lipton, and a clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a graduate of both Yale Law School and Harvard College.

Professor Randy Barnett of Georgetown Law School will address the Harvard Federalist Society, as well as provide information about the Georgetown Originalism Summer Seminar. Lunch will be served.

We will be hosting several LLM Alumni who currently work in U.S. law firms and/or companies in order to discuss the NY Job Fair and getting a job in a U.S. firm or company generally from an LLM perspective,. They will also speak about their experiences within such firms or companies and what to expect as an LLM getting into these U.S. jobs.

In many states, the enactment of common sense gun safety laws has led to counties and municipalities declaring themselves to be "Second Amendment sanctuaries." Most notably, the election of a democratic majority in Virginia has led to dozens of counties passing resolutions declaring their opposition to gun violence prevention measures and that they will not enforce laws they deem unconstitutional. Bill Taylor (HLS ’99) and Molly Thomas-Jensen (HLS ’08), litigators from Everytown for Gun Safety, will talk about this trend,…

Among human rights lawyers it is increasingly common to hear about “bottom-up” approaches or activism “from below”. These buzz-words are often used to evoke a sense of social legitimacy. But how does that actually looks like? How is human rights activism different at the grassroots level? and more importantly, what can we as law students in an elite University learn from communities struggling “at the bottom”? Join a lunch conversation with Érika Bárcena and Lucero Ibarra. Two Mexican legal activist-scholars…

Society often punishes women who take full ownership of their accomplishments. So how do you find that perfect balance between effectively self-promoting while not being that obnoxious person in the room? Whether you are self-promoting for a leadership opportunity, to get credit for a client matter, to win a pitch or a whole host of other reasons, self-promotion is a critical skill you need to hone. During the lunch workshop, speaker Debbie Epstein Henry will focus on how to creatively…

Please join Paul Hastings attorneys for lunch and a discussion about practicing law on the West Coast. Learn about how to best position yourself to enter the West Coast legal market, trending practice areas, and what clients and industries are typical of these markets. Please see the attached invitation for more details.