Career Development Events

We are honored to welcome Ms. Natalie Phan as our first guest speaker of the semester. Ms. Phan is not only the founding attorney of Natalie Phan Law, but also a fellow Law Dawg. Her firm specializes in immigration law, family law, and wills/estates. Ms. Phan will share her story of how she came to start up and run her own firm. This will be a good listen for those who are interested in starting their own firms at some point in time.

Dan Coll manages legal operations for Jabil, Inc., a $25B global product solutions company headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. His team provides technology, process, financial, and other operational support to Jabil's legal team worldwide.

Michelle Silverthorn is the Founder and CEO of Inclusion Nation. Michelle founded Inclusion Nation on the belief that diversity and inclusion needs a new voice for a new generation. A recognized organizational diversity expert, and in-demand diversity speaker, Michelle works with clients in all industries to design spaces centered on courage, belonging, and authenticity. She equips her audiences across the country with the knowledge and skills to finally move forward on diversity and inclusion.

CDO will conduct an information session to help 2Ls, 3Ls, LLMs & MSLs prepare for upcoming virtual interviews.

Register and obtain Zoom login information: LawDawgDash Events

Kilpatrick Townsend Associate Andy Weeks will be speaking about the intersection of art and copyright law, both from his perspective as an attorney and as an artist.

Sponsored by the Intellectual Property Law Association.

RSVP in Symplicity or by email (profdev@uga.edu) by January 21.

You can join by clicking https://zoom.us/j/5388033812 or dialing 312 626 6799, Meeting ID 538 803 3812

Come learn how to use CDO resources to identify state and local judges and initiate contact with those courts as part of your job search. CDO has developed interactive maps with links to court addresses and can help you research which judges are alums and perfect your techniques to contact those judges and secure a clerkship.

Please visit Law Dawg Dash to register and obtain the Zoom information.

law-uga.12twenty.com/events/30006101082669

For this week's 1L career training, Landscape of the Legal Profession: Employer Types, we invite 1Ls to join the CDO team for a live Zoom session.

Learn valuable information and gain insights about which types of employers are likely to hire when, how they hire, and the types of credentials they seek.

Register in LawDawgDash to obtain Zoom meeting information.

We are honored to welcome Mr. Steven Wong, the Assistant General Counsel at The Home Depot, as a guest speaker this semester. Mr. Steven Wong leads and manages the global intellectual property legal function within The Home Depot. Before working at the Home Depot, he has worked at various IP boutique law firms. Mr. Wong will be sharing his general career experiences on how he got into IP. This will be a good listen for those who are interested in IP law and those who are interested in working in-house at some point in time.