300 Things You Can Do With Your Law Degree
May 2009
300 Things to Do With Your Law Degree
Career Options In and Out of Law
This program is also available via webcast! To register for the WEBCAST please use the following link:http://www.cobar.org/calendar/eventdetail.cfm?EventID=GP050709AMW
No CLE Credits Applied For - PARTICIPATION IN THIS SEMINAR IS CONFIDENTIAL. By enrolling you agree to respect the privacy of other attendees. Colorado Bar Association CLE does not release registrant information.
Program Highlights
- Where Have You Been, and Where Are You Now?
- Discovering the Career Options In, Related To, and Out of the Law
- The Steps to Career Development: Developing Clarity on Who You Are
- How Do You Get There? Developing a Career Strategy Plan
Program Description
Some lawyers have always wondered about their options outside the traditional practice of law, uncertain of whether law firm life suits them. Some are only beginning to look at their options now, as the traditional legal market tightens around them. And some have just recently graduated into a profession at a crossroads, leaving them confused about what’s in store for their careers. If any of this sounds familiar, you’re not alone and this program was created just for you.
Exploring your abilities, interests and work styles using the tools provided in this workshop will give you the perspective you need to shed light on your next step—whether you inevitably approach a law-related career, strike out and use your experience outside the industry entirely, or even decide that, with adjustments, practicing law is right where you want to be.
Agenda
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Registration
9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Where Have You Been, and Where Are You Now?
- What are your current dissatisfactions? Profession, specific job, personal?
- How to evaluate your current job and develop helpful criteria to assess future jobs
- How to create career satisfaction within your current position or the law
Discovering the Career Options In, Related to, And Out Of the Law
- Should you stay in the law?
- Option considerations: factors and issues in job/career choice
- How to research career options
- What are the various options?
A. In Law
B. Related to Law
C. Outside of Law
- Success stories
10:15 - 10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
The Steps to Career Development: Developing Clarity on Who You Are
- What do you have to offer?
- What are your transferable skills?
A. Generally useful skills developed in law school and legal practice
B. How to present these skills in interviewing
- What interests you, and what do you need?
A. What are your core values?
B. What makes work valued and real to you?
- Questions to help you focus on your skills, interests, and needs
How Do You Get There? Developing a Career Strategy Plan
- Networking
- Information interviews and job interviews
- Resumes
- Overcoming lawyer stereotypes
12:30 p.m.
Adjourn
Faculty:
Hindi Greenberg, the President of Lawyers in Transition, received her undergraduate degree in English literature and studio art from the University of Minnesota before graduating in the top ten percent of her class from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco in 1974.She then clerked for two years for a Superior Court in California and the Chief Justice of the High Court of American Samoa. She was then a business litigator for eight years at one of the largest San Francisco law firms, in a small San Francisco law firm, and in a corporation. From 1985 to 1991, while running Lawyers in Transition, she also worked for various law firms as an independent contractor. Hindi formed Lawyers in Transition in 1985 in San Francisco to provide information and resources to help law students and attorneys identify and move forward into new career choices both in and outside law and to assist law firms to retain the best associates. Lawyers in Transition also works with law firms and corporate legal departments to assist them in "outplacing" their departing lawyers. Lawyers in Transition has assisted more than 15,000 lawyers nationwide.
As the president of Lawyers in Transition, Ms. Greenberg is nationally known for her experience on the topic of attorney career (dis)satisfaction and options. She consults nationally with individual attorneys and law firms, and writes articles on lawyer dissatisfaction, career satisfaction solutions and career options. Ms. Greenberg has had numerous articles on career satisfaction and options published in legal newspapers, including many major legal papers in the country, as well as in bar association magazines and business newspapers. She is the author of the highly acclaimed book, The Lawyer's Career Change Handbook, published by HarperCollins.
Video Replays: May 28, 2009
Denver: CLE Classroom, 1900 Grant Street, Suite 300
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Colorado Springs: 421 South Tejon Street, Suite 100
Location Information
CLECI Large Classroom
1900 Grant Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80203
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1900 Grant Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80203
Registration Fees
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| CBA | $149.00 |
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