Winston Churchill once said, “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” It is for this reason that I love to work in public interest law. As a 3L and the president of our Public Interest Law society, I have had great experiences at KU Law learning about the opportunities in …
Law school grades not most important hiring criterion for firms
If you’re dead set on making great grades in law school to land a job, you’re overlooking something even more important. At least, that’s what the National Jurist magazine found when it polled hiring partners at mid-sized law firms across the country. The survey showed that the most important criterion when making a hiring decision was the candidate’s personality, or …
I accept: job offer etiquette and professional standards
You’re probably well aware of job interview etiquette: be on time, dress professionally, make eye contact, ask relevant questions, and follow up post-interview. But you might not know that etiquette is also involved in the job offer and decision-making process, and it’s important to remember as you search for employment. All ABA-accredited law schools and most of the largest legal …
Goodbye to Green: Farewell letter from Todd Rogers
Welcome back to Green Hall! The beginning of the 2011-12 academic year is bittersweet for me, as it marks the end of my tenure at KU Law and a return to Boulder, Colo. I recently accepted the position of Assistant Dean of Career Development at the University of Colorado Law School, where I previously worked in 2000-01. My last day …
Student with designs on fashion law gets crash course (and a handbag) at summer institute in NYC
On Memorial Day, I piled out of a taxi in Brooklyn. It was the quintessential “20-something girl from the Midwest heads off to New York” opening scene to a movie — I dragged my huge suitcase up the front steps and struggled to figure out how to unlock the apartment doors with the set of keys my sister’s best friend …
National salaries for the KU Law Class of 2010
In our last posting, we shared salary information for the KU Law Class of 2010. At that time, national salary statistics for the Class of 2010 were not available. They have since come in, and the data confirms our past observation that national salary statistics are often unreliable because of low reporting percentages. Bar passage required jobs For instance, 108 …