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Welcome fellow law students!
Take steps now to boost your future legal career. The State Bar of Wisconsin offers a variety of resources to help you get connected to the legal profession while you’re still a student. You can network with your future colleagues at events, stay up to date on what’s happening in the law, and find career resources, as well as get answers to career questions through StraightTalk.
Join Law Student Associates today for free and start making your connections! If you have any questions, concerns, or comments, please submit them.
Young Lawyers Division Student Liaisons
Richelle Martin Balistreri
UW Madison Law School
Law Student Associate
Hans Thompson
Marquette Law School
Law Student Associate
News
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Wisconsin Lawyer November 2009: Career: Navigating a Job Search in Challenging Times
November 5, 2009 -
Challenge to ‘diploma privilege’ reinstated by U.S. Court of Appeals
July 9, 2009 -
WisBar offers lawyer resources for a down economy
June 22, 2009 -
Law school applications up at UW-Madison, down at Marquette for entering class of 2009
April 15, 2009 -
Freezing for a reason: U.W. law students take the plunge for Special Olympics
March 4, 2009
All Questions
- If you start out in one field of law, can you switch later?
- How short is too short to stay with a firm?
- How do you juggle family and work obligations successfully?
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More Resources- Legal Career Center: Through a national network, WisBar gives legal employers a powerful tool for recruiting legal professionals-from attorneys to paralegals and other support staff. Job seekers have free access to thousands of current law-related position openings, searchable by job type, area of practice, and geographic location.
- Classified ads: Get the latest job openings from theWisBar and Wisconsin Lawyer classified ads.
- Pro Bono Opportunities: Getting involved in providing legal services to low-income residents is a great way to learn practical lawyering skills, client interviewing techniques, network with practicing lawyers and learn more about different substantive areas of law. This site offers useful resources to help you learn more about pro bono opportunities in Wisconsin.
- Law Student Associate Program - Take your law school experience to the next level by becoming a State Bar of Wisconsin Law Student Associate - at absolutely no cost to you!
- Diversity Clerkship Program - To further support the goal of diversity within the legal profession, The State Bar of Wisconsin facilitates a summer clerkship for first-year law students with diverse backgrounds. The program is open to University of Wisconsin Law School students and Marquette University Law School students. Students are matched with private law firms, corporate legal departments and governmental agencies.
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