Law Students

NAWL's Ready to On-Ramp program, for those of us who haven't even graduated yet.

By knb980

I attended NAWL?s Ready to On-Ramp? program at Jenner & Block in Chicago, which was ?designed to help lawyers develop their own personal strategy to re-entering the workforce? after taking time off, usually for raising children. Not having graduated from law school yet (one more week!), I was the youngest person there. I got some puzzled looks.

But I found that the women I met, who have entered, exited, and sometimes entered the legal workforce again, had extremely valuable information to impart on a woman just starting her legal career.

Great advice was shared by the likes of Carol Fishman Cohen, author of Back on the Career Track: A Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms Who Want to Return to Work, who reiterated Lynn Hecht Schafran?s point at our Ms. JD conference last month, that Sandra Day O?Connor never entirely left the profession to raise her children?she was active in the bar and the Republican party the whole time.

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Full post as published by Ms. JD on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).