Optimizing Your Summer and Future Employment Opportunities

Summer jobs have been interrupted this year for countless students as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, shelter-at-home orders, and the resulting economic impact on many legal employers. 

If your summer employment plans have changed, fallen through, or never materialized, there is still much you can do to optimize your summer and your future employment opportunities. This program is designed to focus on you and your options. Our speakers offered you concrete advice on how you can use your time this summer to become the "preferred candidate" employers describe in their job postings.

Speakers include:

Additional Resources

Mike Gotham - Senior Director of Legal Talent

Advice Articles

• Optimizing Your Summer & Your Future Employment Opportunities (co-authored by Mike Gotham and Shelley Levine)
• Not Just a Job Search: Developing Your Future Network (co-authored by Mike Gotham and Shelley Levine)
• Writing Your Best Possible Resume (co-authored by Mike Gotham and Shelley Levine)
• How to Choose the Right Firm for You (co-authored by Mike Gotham and Shelley Levine)
• Ten Steps to Effective Informational Interviewing (co-authored by Mike Gotham and Shelley Levine)

Justin Moon - Technology Transactions and Licensing

Blogs:

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance for Businesses - For those currently dealing with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and those anticipating its effects, our attorneys are helping businesses respond and prepare.
• Consumer Protection Review - Our blog helps businesses that market and sell to consumers navigate federal and state legal issues related to advertising, privacy, promotions, products liability, government investigations, unfair competition, class actions and general consumer protection.
• The Fintech Report - The Fintech Report provides news and analysis on legal developments affecting innovative fintech companies, from pre-seed startups to complex, multinational organizations.
• Privacy Quick Tips - The Privacy Quick Tips blog addresses latest privacy and data security developments and best practices for companies across various industries including retail, tech and healthcare.
• Virtual Currency Report - The Virtual Currency Report provides news and analysis on legal developments relating to Bitcoin and other decentralized virtual currencies, math-based currencies, and decentralized ledgers. Perkins Coie attorneys offer insight on the complex regulatory, enforcement, investment and consumer protection issues arising in the virtual currency ecosystem.

Blogs:

• Asset Management ADVocate - The Asset Management ADVocate provides unique analysis and insight into legal developments affecting asset managers in the United States.
• Virtual Currency Report - The Virtual Currency Report provides news and analysis on legal developments relating to Bitcoin and other decentralized virtual currencies, math-based currencies, and decentralized ledgers. Perkins Coie attorneys offer insight on the complex regulatory, enforcement, investment and consumer protection issues arising in the virtual currency ecosystem.