Connect with HLS Students

Office of Career Services
4020 Wasserstein Hall (WCC)
1585 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

617-495-3119

The Office of Career Services (OCS) offers numerous ways to connect with HLS students including OCS hosted events, podcasts, and programming. Harvard Law School’s Student Organizations are very active and host many employer events as well.

View HLS Student Organizations

Student Engagement Opportunities

  • In-person Coffee Chats at the Office of Career Services (Fall 2025)

    Coffee chats will take place in-person at The Office of Career Services (OCS) from 12pm-2pm ET daily. Sign-up for a date below. Dates are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. There is a $250 registration fee. Please email recruiting@law.harvard.edu to coordinate a coffee chat.

  • Virtual Office Hours (Fall 2025)

    Host a Zoom drop-in session with a small group of five to ten 1L students from 5:30pm-6:15pm. OCS will set up the session, publicize the event and collect student RSVPs. There is a $200 registration fee. Please email recruiting@law.harvard.edu to coordinate virtual office hours.

  • Meet the Firms (Firm Fair) for 1Ls (Fall 2025)

    Wednesday, October 22nd, 4pm – 8pm ET, at Harvard Law School’s Milstein Conference Center. This event attracts the entire 1L class and is a great way to get to know our students. Each firm may have 2 representatives at their table at a time but representatives are welcome to trade out throughout the evening. There is a participation fee of $2000. Please register for the firm fair here.

Podcasts

The OCS website includes recorded podcasts from law firms and other legal employers for students to download. These instructional podcasts feature short interviews with firm representatives and cover practice areas, practice settings, professionalism, and on-the-job skills. These podcasts are crafted to give students an opportunity to learn more about a subject from practicing attorneys.

Please note that the opinions expressed in the podcasts and any materials linked therewith represent the views of the speakers and do not necessarily represent those of the Office of Career Services, Harvard Law School or Harvard University.

Publicity & Marketing Materials

OCS will publicize firm events (including firm hosted multi-school events when appropriate).

Additionally, firms may submit any written or video marketing materials to be uploaded to the Symplicity Employer Resource Library for students. We will accept materials on a rolling basis and upload to Symplicity at any time during the spring semester. To submit materials, please email them to recruiting@law.harvard.edu.

*Please note that materials submitted in the spring and summer of 2025 have been removed from the library.

OCS Publicity will consist of the following:

  • A listing in Symplicity where students RSVP for events (for chats and receptions)
  • A listing on the OCS events and the university calendar (for chats and receptions)
  • Weekly posts on the OCS blog for students (for chats, receptions, other firm events and resource library materials)

Policies & Procedures

Employers may not communicate directly or indirectly with first year students before October 1. Invitations to social functions scheduled before October 1 should be directed only to second and third year students. For more details on HLS Recruiting and Interview Policies please see our policy page.


Individual firm information sessions, coffee chats or networking receptions must comply with Harvard Law School’s non-discrimination policy.

Employers that fail to comply with these policies may not be able to utilize the facilities and services of the Office of Career Services.

Contact

We welcome firm and alumni participation in our programming. For all inquiries, contact us at recruiting@law.harvard.edu.

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