A panel of associates from the Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity member organizations will share experiences regarding their success and challenges as summer associates, interns and new attorneys. Gain valuable insights from practitioners on how to interpret, learn and grow from the evaluation process. Panelists include: Kristin Burgess, Associate, Shipman & Goodwin; Walter Menjivar '12, Associate, Day Pitney LLP; Agnes Romanowska '12, Associate, Reid and Riege, P.C.; and Asker Saeed, Diversity Partner, Day Pitney LLP.

This event is a collaboration between the Student Services Office, the Career Planning Center and the Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity. 

Please RSVP on Symplicity.

The Federalist Society presents Karin Agness of the American Enterprise Institute and a member 2011's Forbes "30 Under 30" for Law & Policy who will speak on the topic of "Becoming Superwoman: 'Having It All' and the Choices of the Modern Professional Woman."  Ms. Agness's presentation will also feature response and comments from Professor Anne Dailey, Evangeline Starr Professor of Law at the Law School. Coffee and sandwiches will be served. Guests can contact Meaghan Ehrhard for more information.

The Office of International Graduate Programs invites you to attend a talk by Dr. Dire Tladi LL.M. '00.  Dr. Tladi will speak about his experience as a Legal Advisor of the South African Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York (and in particular about his experience in the Security Council).  He holds a BLC and LLB degrees from the University of Pretoria, an LLM from the University of Connecticut (where he attended as a Fulbright Scholar and received the CALI Excellence for the Future Aware) and a PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands). He has published widely in international law.  Formerly an Associate Professor of international law at UNISA, he has also served as a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria.  He is a Principal State Law Adviser for International Law at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation in Pretoria. Dr. Tladi is an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch.  In November 2011 he was elected to the UN International Law Commission (for a term of five years).

Christopher P. DeSantis is a nationally renowned speaker specializing in the design and delivery of Management and Organization Development interventions.  This is a unique opportunity to learn how to develop relationships that will enhance your professional career.

Historically, a protégé is chosen by a mentor. Typically, that mentor saw themselves somehow reflected in the protégé. This young version of the mentor received advice and nurturing that helped him or her progress in life and in their career. Looking around, the landscape of the work environment had changed dramatically. The workplace of today is made up of people from diverse backgrounds with different generational identities.  What hasn't changed in the need young people have for the help and advice that can only be provided by those senior to them.   Questions addressed include: Can assigning a mentor work? How, if at all, do you bridge significant differences? What do mentors and protégés need to know to make the relationship work?  How do generational differences affect our perceptions of others?

This program will not be recorded.  All law students are invited and encouraged to attend and please RSVP on Symplicity.