Career Services Provides Assistance to Students & Alumni

The Office of Career Services seeks to provide law students and alumni with the training, resources and guidance that will enable them to forge rewarding careers and obtain employment as efficiently as possible.  To help achieve these goals, the office has increased its marketing and employer outreach efforts, revised educational and professional programs, and added new resources. 

New resources include a comfortable reading room, an updated reference library and a web-based scheduling and database program, Symplicity, that enables efficient management of on-campus interviewing programs, employer résumé collections and job postings.  In addition, the staff has compiled a large list of links to online job banks and websites dealing with career related issues. 

Redesigned content and structure of educational programming allows first-year students to build résumé drafting, interviewing and other job search skills.  In addition to the Lunch with a Lawyer series (in which practicing attorneys come to campus and discuss the practical aspects of their work), the office has instituted a professional development program.  This program includes presentations on practice-related issues that most law students do not encounter until they graduate.  Program topics include discovery disputes, billing and timekeeping, and the difference between practicing law in state court and federal court. 

The director and associate director meet regularly with alumni and other employers throughout the Southeast to stay abreast of trends in local legal hiring markets, to discuss ideas for proposed professional development programs, and to establish a network of alumni to advise students who seek work in their communities and practice areas.  These visits have yielded numerous job postings for students and alumni. 

The Office of Career Services thanks alumni for their invaluable service to the law school and to the office.  Many have provided great assistance to students and graduates in the following ways:

• Interviewing students during fall and spring on-campus interview program

• Posting job openings for law clerks and/or attorneys in the online job bank

• Interviewing first-year students during the Practice Interview Program each January

• Speaking to students about topics related to law practice and career issues

• Informing the office of current and imminent openings in their organizations and their communities

Most services are available to alumni as well as students.  If the staff can be of assistance to you, your firm or organization, please call 205-726-2797.

Jeffrey B. Price, J.D.
Director

Anne L. Marovich, J.D.
Associate Director

Anna F. Kinman
Program Assistant