Boston Legal Market (podcast)
March 9, 2022
Betsy Dipardo from OCS discusses the state of the legal market in Boston with Jacon McCann, a recruiter with Gridline .
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March 9, 2022
Betsy Dipardo from OCS discusses the state of the legal market in Boston with Jacon McCann, a recruiter with Gridline .
March 4, 2022
Hear firsthand from the Honorable Carla Wong McMillian of the Supreme Court of Georgia about her background and work. Among other interesting facts, Justice McMillian is the first Asian Pacific American to serve on a state’s highest court in the Southern United States.
February 28, 2022
This short video shows how to update your resume, including giving tips on how to make space for your 1L summer job and ensure your resume is in a format EIP employers expect to see.
February 24, 2022
Tim Keifer ’98, practices criminal defense, DUI, and family law at his own firm, Kiefer Law Office in Madison, WI
February 22, 2022
Hear firsthand from the Honorable Rodolfo A. Ruiz II of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida about his background and work. Among other interesting facts, prior to judicial service, Judge Ruiz served as an Assistant County Attorney for the Miami-Dade County's Attorney's office.
February 8, 2022
Sara Dana from OCS discusses the state of the legal market in Atlanta with Desha Dardenne, a recruiter from Major, Lindsey & Africa.
February 2, 2022
Hear from Michael Fridkin (HLS ’85) and Boanne Wassink (HLS ’20) about the unique advantages of working with multiple judges through the Seventh Circuit Staff Attorneys’ Office.
December 13, 2021
Joel Fleming '11 is a partner at Block & Leviton LLP, focusing on securities, corporate governance, and merger-and-acquisition litigation. Mr. Fleming is one of the top plaintiffs lawyers in the country and has recovered over $100 million dollars for his clients since joining the firm in 2014. In 2019, Law360 named Mr. Fleming as one of the top six litigators in the country under the age of 40.
November 30, 2021
After graduating from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, Patricia Paul practiced public interest law and then was a litigation associate at Kramer Levin in NYC for more than five years. She’s been a legal recruiter doing both in-house and law firm placement since 2006. She also has leadership roles in the NYC chapters of the HLS Women’s Alliance and the HLS Association.
November 16, 2021
What is BigLaw? Come hear from HLS alums as they candidly discuss the business of BigLaw, life as an associate and as a partner, and…
October 25, 2021
Engaging with HLS faculty makes for a more educational and enjoyable law school experience. More concretely, faculty recommendation letters are required in applications for certain types of jobs, including judicial clerkships. Get insights from a panel of professors about how best to cultivate substantive relationships with them in our current environment.
October 20, 2021
Michael Murphy is a partner at Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher in Washington, DC. He is a leader of the firm’s Environmental,…
July 7, 2021
Tarek Austin '16 is an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. He has handled a range of patent, commercial, and other litigation matters before state and federal courts, government agencies, and international tribunals.
June 15, 2021
Ben Wilson '76 is Chairman of the environmental law firm, Beveridge & Diamond in Washington, DC. He has been lead counsel in numerous complex environmental litigation and regulatory matters for major consumer product corporations, retailers, oil and gas companies, municipalities, and developers.
June 15, 2021
Bryan Killian '05 is a partner in the DC office of Morgan Lewis. Bryan is an appellate lawyer who represents clients facing complex, important, or unresolved questions of constitutional, statutory, and administrative law. He has argued more than 35 cases in the US Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, and District of Columbia Circuits.
June 9, 2021
In this student-to-student panel hosted by OCS’s outgoing peer adviser, Haley O’Connor, hear from our new EIP Peer Advisers about their experiences at January’s first virtual EIP. Learn what to expect and get concrete tips and tricks for making the most of your EIP experience in a virtual setting.
May 18, 2021
Want to ensure you make the best possible impression while getting the most out of your experience this summer? Learn how to make the most out of your summer experience, whether in-person or remotely, while securing an offer (2L) or strong recommendation (1L) out of the process. In this program, 2Ls and 3Ls reflect on their summer 2020 work experiences and offer advice on handling work assignments, getting feedback, building relationships, securing a reference and writing sample, and much more.
May 10, 2021
Hear Sara Dana of OCS discuss the Miami legal market with Abbe Bunt from Bunt Legal Search.
April 29, 2021
Dena Sacco from OCS discusses the Chicago legal market with Katy Lewis from Catamount Search Partners.
April 28, 2021
David Sclar ‘07 is the author of Workplace Strategies for Technology Lawyers, a book of practical tips to perform at a high level as an in-house counsel, with a tech company focus. For most of his legal career, David has advised tech companies at various stages, from startup to established company, as outside counsel at Ropes & Gray and Cooley, the first Chief Privacy Officer at Rally Health, and most recently as the Healthcare Compliance and Privacy Officer at WW International. You can email him at techlawyerdave@gmail.com and visit his website at davidsclar.com,
April 20, 2021
Ellen Ehrenpreis ’93 is a corporate partner in the Technology Companies Group at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP. During her career and prior to joining Orrick, Ellen was a litigation partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the co-founder of Edgewood Law Partners LLP, CEO of the World Energy Innovation Forum, and, at the start of her career, an associate at Ropes & Gray in Boston. In this podcast, Ellen talks about her practice advising companies from early stage start-ups to mature private companies, highlighting her advisory and transactional work handling company formations, venture financings, governance, M&A transactions, corporate and securities matters, commercial transactions and litigation strategy.