OPIA

Staying True to Yourself and Your Career Betsy Fordyce 44:58 – 11/01/2018 Wasserstein Fellow Betsy Fordyce, Director, Youth Empowerment & Legal Advocacy Program, Rocky Mountain Children’s…

So I Don’t Have to Choose? Building a Career Spanning Direct Services and Systemic Advocacy Chris Kemmitt 52:36 – 10/11/2018 Many law students feel torn between…

Skadden Fellowship Info Session Kathleen Rubenstein and Lauren Aguiar, Skadden Foundation; Judy Murciano and Jillian Tuck, OPIA Elizabeth Gyori ’19, Kenneth Parreno ’19, Mahroh Jahangiri…

Date: 4/13/2022
Runtime: 40:24 Speaker: Jillian Tuck, Assistant Director for J.D. and LL.M. Advising, OPIA OPIA staff discuss factors to consider when choosing a 2L…

Questioning the Firm (2014) 50:41 – 09/09/2014 Students joined Catherine Pattanayak, Carolyn Stein, and Nima Eshghi for a discussion about exploring public sector opportunities as a…

Public Service Venture Fund Organization-Based Fellowships Info Session Judy Murciano, Director of Fellowships 34:20 – 01/14/2022 Harvard Law School’s Public Service Venture Fund (PSVF) awards $1…

Public Service Kick-Off (ft. Bryan Stevenson) 71:18 – 09/17/2014 The Public Service Kick-Off featured remarks by Dean Martha Minow, keynote speaker Bryan Stevenson, Judge David Barron,…

Public Service Kick-Off (ft. Janson Wu ’03) 90:13 – 09/04/2019 Learn more about public service at HLS and beyond. Watch our inspiring keynote speaker and HLS alumnus…

Public Policy Panel (2011) 1:12:19 – 03/07/2011 Nicole Austin-Hillery, Director and Counsel, The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Washington D.C. office
Nicole…

Public Defender Interviewing Process 1:34:56 – 10/07/2014 Interviewing for a public defender job is uniquely challenging — interviews can be confrontational, are frequently intense, and usually…

Private Public Interest Law Firms Panel (2012) 54:57 – 10/03/2012 Get a closer look at the work of private public interest and plaintiffs’ firms, and learn…

56:03 – 10/04/2011 When lawyers and law students think of public interest practice, they typically think of legal services or public defender offices, not-for-profit organizations such…

51:49 – 09/30/2010 When lawyers and law students think of public interest practice, they typically think of Legal Services or Public Defender offices, not-for-profit organizations such…

Private Public Interest and Plaintiffs’ Law Firms Panel 1:25:02 10/20/2014 Private public interest law firms work on many of the same issues as their nonprofit, government,…

Presidential Management Fellowship Info Session Joan Ruttenberg, Assistant Director for Government Advising and Director of the Heyman Fellowship Program 37:15 – 09/23/2021 Watch or listen to…

Post-Graduate Fellowship Insider Date: 9/13/2021
Runtime: 55:30 Speaker: Judy Murciano, Fellowships Director and Associate Director of OPIA Fellowships can be the gateway to new ideas…

OPIA’s UN Recruitment Part III: Competency Based Interview Preparation 44:59 – 04/12/2018 Making it through the application process to the interview stage is really the hardest…

How to be a Successful Intern at an International Organization (ft. Priyanka Chirimar) 54:37 – 02/06/2018 Watch OPIA/HRP’s Wasserstein Fellow-in-Residence, Priyanka Chirimar, to learn how students…

From Refugee to Advocate: A Personal Journey to Community Lawyering (2018) 43:20 – 01/09/2018 Watch our discussion about Jora Trang’s life and work, from a Vietnamese…

Nonprofit/Advocacy Panel (2014) 1:22:57 Thousands of nonprofit organizations provide comprehensive legal advice, representation, and education to low-income or marginalized communities. Others use lawsuits or legislative…

New Approaches to Addressing Youth Gang Involvement 1:01:15 – 10/25/2017 Watch our discussion about various approaches to youth gang involvement from the perspective of a city…