GGU School of Law | Law Career Services: 1L Thanksgiving Strategy

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Worried about seeing your family over the holidays and how you will handle their incessant (but well-meaning) questions about your career prospects? Check out these helpful tips to enlist your loved ones on your career team.

- Susanne Aronowitz

Upcoming Networking Events

Feb. 29, 5:30 pm - The Women's Law Association, in conjunction with APALSA, ACLU, and ILS, is hosting its annual Spring panel until 8:30pm at 536 Mission Street, SF, in Room 2202. This year's topic is "Sex Workers and Human Trafficking". Hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be served during the reception after the discussion panel. This event is open to the public so please feel free to invite friends, family, co-workers, etc.! Don't miss our amazing speakers including DA of Alameda County and former GGU Alum, Nancy E. O'Malley.

March 3, 9:15 am to 1 pm - It's An Interdisciplinary World. Make It Work For You (A GGU Griffin Connect Symposium). FREE. 3.5 hours of CLE Credit. Join fellow alumni and distinguished speakers for a free practical and interactive working sessions designed to expand the interdisciplinary practices and resources that can provide both immediate and strategic benefit to you. Light breakfast and beverages will be served. Click here for more information.

March 8, 4 to 7 pm - Does Tweeting Beat Meeting? The Ethics of Social Networking. This program will address the ethical considerations involved in a lawyer's use of social networking in both professional and personal capacities - the dos and don'ts, the pros and cons. 1.5 hours of Ethics CLE credit. Click here for more information and to RSVP.

March 13, 6:30 pm - The International Trademark Association cordially invites you to attend a networking reception for Young Practitioners. Open to any person considering, or at the beginning of (less than five years experience), a career in trademark law and practice. Trademark administrators, agents, students, examiners and lawyers are all encouraged to attend. Please RSVP to Joy Baker Peacock, Asst. Director, High Tech Law Institute, jbpeacock@scu.edu or (408) 551-7154. Even will be held in the Williman Room Benson Center of Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara.

April 20/21 - Dean Judith McKelvey Women's Reunion. In recognition of the breadth and diversity of our national women law alumnae group and the debt we all owe to Dean Judith McKelvey, GGU Law will hold our first-ever Dean Judith McKelvey Women's Reunion on April 20 and 21 in San Francisco. Dean McKelvey was the second woman ever to serve as dean of an ABA-accredited law school in the United States. Click here to visit the website.