LEGAL BRIEFS
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More than 200 people gathered at Dean David Yellen’s April reception to honor Loyola graduates who have served or are serving on the federal, state, or local bench. Among the attendees
were 40 judges who are also Loyola alumni, pictured here.
EMPLOYABILITY
Desiree Moore (JD ’05) takes Loyola students through “bootcamp” for new lawyers.
Career Services’ Marianne Deagle
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sk law firms what tools
they most want recent
graduates to bring to
their first jobs, and
the answer is: the ability to hit the
ground running.
Desiree Moore (JD ’05), president
of Greenhorn Legal, is helping fill
that gap with programming that puts
students through “bootcamp” for new
lawyers. “Our programs save time
and resources students otherwise
spend on unnecessary trial and
error, improve new lawyer morale,
and better prepare new attorneys to
contribute meaningfully from day
one,”Moore says.
In March, Loyola hosted a
sold-out three-day version of the
bootcamp program that covered
topics including professionalism,
e-mail and letter-writing etiquette,
and marketing and branding for new
lawyers, as well as building office
relationships, developing practical
skills in litigation and transactional
work (with a real-world assignment),
creating space for successful bar exam
preparation, and keeping a healthy
work-life balance.
The bootcamp program is just
part of what the Office of Career
Services is doing to help give new
graduates an edge in a tough
job market. In partnership with
academic affairs, which recently
revamped School of Law curriculum
to strongly expand experiential
learning, career services is helping
students be “more strategic about
their job searches,” according to
Marianne Deagle, assistant dean for
career services.
“Our goal is to make Loyola
students the best prepared to
compete in this job market,”Deagle
says. “So our mantra is: ‘Acquire as
much work experience as possible
during law school in order to sell that
experience to employers after you
graduate.’ We encourage our students
to take every opportunity to build
their skills, get those skills reflected
on their resumes, and be ready to talk
about them in interviews.”
Career services offers one-on-
one counseling to every student.
“Delivering a group message doesn’t
always work with today’s students,”
Deagle says. “Our individualized,
personalized counseling helps
students figure out what they want to
do and the steps needed to get there.”
The office recently hired
Jayne Schreiber, a lawyer and
experienced recruiter, whose focus
is on employer outreach. Career
services also sponsors various
networking events, a monthly
newsletter, and “Alums in Practice”
lunches with guest alumni speakers.
In fact, alums are an irreplaceable
part of the career services network of
resources. “Over the past few years,
we’ve worked hard at connecting
more students with alumni, and it’s
paid off in stronger relationships,”
Deagle says. “We encourage our
alums to respond to e-mails from
students. Students are sometimes shy
about asking people they don’t know
to take time out of their busy days,
but we know our alums want to be
there for our students the same way
earlier alums were there for them.”
Another way alums—especially
newer graduates—can help is by
responding fully to employment
survey data. Dean David Yellen
recently served on an American Bar
Association (ABA) standards review
committee charged with making
recommendations to the ABA
body that governs accreditation.
The committee recently adopted
a proposal requiring much more
detailed information on each school’s
employment outcomes—information
that Loyola has already been
providing for several years.
But, Deagle notes, gathering
the data can be challenging. “It’s
so important to have detailed
information—which is completely
confidential—about salary, full-time
versus part-time work, temporary vs.
permanent jobs, and more,” she says.
“By responding to these surveys, new
alumni can make a huge contribution
to informing students of the realities
of the job market.”
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Career services prepares students
to compete in tough job market
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