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Mentoring
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Cordell Parvin Blog
Mentoring: Three Great Questions Young Lawyers Asked
Over the past year, I have received three very thoughtful questions from young lawyers about the mentoring relationship. They were: How do you find a mentor when no one has…
The Faculty Lounge
Call for Nominees for AALS Section on Women in Legal Education Lifetime Achievement Award
This year the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education will award, for the first time, a Lifetime Achievement award. The purpose of the Lifetime Achievement Award is to honor…
Legal Profession Blog
OK To Sue Mentor
The New York Appellate Division for the First Judicial Department held that a plaintiff stated a valid cause of action under the following circumstances:The following facts are undisputed: In 2002,…
#AssociateLife @BilzinSumberg
Meeting my Mentor!
By ddelaflor
About two weeks before beginning our summer program, each Summer Associate was assigned an attorney mentor. I was very fortunate to be paired up with Wendy Polit, a fourth year…
Zen and the Art of Legal Networking
Mentoring Associates in Business Development
There were so many good tidbits that came out of our LMA New Jersey meeting last week! Amy Adams shared her comments on the session she attended about mentoring associates…
#AssociateLife @BilzinSumberg
Good Pairings: Not Just for Wine!
In my previous post, I discussed the importance of a good summer associate mentoring relationship - if we get this right, the summer is much easier for us and for…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
Survey for Environmental Law Professors on Their Mentoring Experiences
At the AALS midyear meeting, as part of the Workshop on Torts, Environment, and Disaster, Daniel A. Farber, Bruce R. Huber, John Copeland Nagle, Jessica Owley, Melissa Powers, Kalyani Robbins,…
Legal Skills Prof Blog
New law school teaching scholarship: The role of peer mentors in student academic success
This article, entitled The social capital benefits of peer-mentoring relationships in law school is by professors Meera E. Deo (Thomas Jefferson School of Law) and Kimberly A. Griffin (Education Policy…
Cordell Parvin Blog
Mentoring, Supervising, Delegating-Three Simple Ideas You Can Implement
Are you a junior partner developing your practice? If so, you might listen to a Delegating and Supervising Podcast you can download from iTunes on how I delegated and supervised…
The Faculty Lounge
Counseling Students – The Student You Immediately Know Is Wrong for Law School
At this point, we've talked about counseling the socially awkward student as well as the student who has no idea why he went to law school. How about a relative…