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Tammy Albarrán ’99, Chief Deputy General Counsel at Uber. Ms. Albarrán talks about her path from transactional work to litigation in Big Law, her move to Uber, how Uber’s 350 lawyer in-house legal team operates, and her recommendation for law students and alumni considering this type of work.

Betsy Dipardo from OCS discusses the state of the legal market in Boston with Jacon McCann, a recruiter with Gridline .

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.

Tim Keifer ’98, practices criminal defense, DUI, and family law at his own firm, Kiefer Law Office in Madison, WI

Sara Dana from OCS discusses the state of the legal market in Atlanta with Desha Dardenne, a recruiter from Major, Lindsey & Africa.

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.

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.

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…

In this video, OCS Peer Adviser, Sophie Nguyen, will walk you through how to find alumni for networking purposes. She shows some great resources for searching alumni and discusses various ways to identify alumni of interest and how to contact them.

Michael Murphy, Partner, Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher Michael Murphy is a partner at Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher in Washington, DC. He…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hear Sara Dana of OCS discuss the Miami legal market with Abbe Bunt from Bunt Legal Search.

Hear Sara Dana of OCS discuss the Washington, DC legal market with Dan Binstock, a recruiter from Garrison & Sisson, Inc.

Dena Sacco from OCS discusses the Chicago legal market with Katy Lewis from Catamount Search Partners.

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,

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. 

In this episode, media lawyer Beth Lobel '88 draws from her over 20 years of experience at NBCUniversal, where she is Senior Vice President and counsel for news and non-fiction programming and Internet content. She lays out paths, considerations, and resources for starting a successful career media law, whether you’re 1L with some time to explore, or a law firm associate looking to make a move.