Beyond Litigation: Building Your Toolkit to Advance the Public Good
Law school often projects a one-dimensional image of a successful lawyer as that of a rain-maker, federal courts litigator, or trial attorney. Understanding other ways excellence might look like in a day-to-day public interest career might be less talked about and harder to imagine. Join Wasserstein Fellow Maha Ibrahim as she shares some insights and anecdotes from her decade of experience as a civil rights lawyer and discusses some exciting ways an early-career attorney can develop an impactful skillset in conjunction with (or instead of!) just litigation.
Lunch provided. Please RSVP below! Open to the HLS community.
Lawyering for the Climate
Climate change and its consequences suffuse nearly all areas of law, but for law students who want to focus intentionally on climate, selecting a career path in an ever-shifting social, technological, and judicial environment can be daunting. Join Wasserstein Fellow Matt Littleton ’10, an attorney at Envolve Law, for a discussion of his career as a government and private public-interest litigator specializing in federal and state climate policy. Matt will discuss ways (some obvious, others not) that litigating and non-litigating attorneys are tackling one of the most pressing and vexing problems of our time, and offer thoughts on where the field may be heading.
Lunch provided. Please RSVP below! Open to the HLS community.
Why YOU Should Work for a State Attorney General’s Office
Whether you are interested in corporate law, privacy, antitrust, consumer protection, civil rights, tort defense, employment, criminal, appellate, or almost any other practice area, State Attorneys General offices offer unparalleled opportunities to do good, serve the public, and engage in impactful legal work. Best of all, you can do it from your home state! Join Wasserstein Fellow and Deputy Colorado Attorney General Nathan Blake to learn more about how State AGs are on the front lines of defending the rule of law and taking on the biggest corporations harming consumers. From high-stakes Supreme Court cases to counseling government agencies to engaging in possibly the last place in the country where constructive bipartisan work occurs, working for a State Attorney General should be on your shortlist of promising career paths.
Lunch provided. Please RSVP below! Open to the HLS community.