Welcome everyone! So glad you are here.https://www.nalp.org/jd_advantage - here are some great resources for you! We will post the recordings of the sessions here by Monday as well.

Thanks for joining us everyone! Feel free to "pin" the video windows of our speakers so that you can see them more readily:-Michael Pastor (Moderator), Director, Tricarico Institute for the Business of Law and In-House Counsel at New York Law School-Lauren Ciaccio (Panelist), Associate Counsel at IMG Models-Rick Klau (Panelist), Chief Technology Innovation Officer at the California Department of Technology-Louis Perez (Panelist), Privacy Program Manager and Counsel at Kayak and OpenTable-Irina Gomelskaya (Host), Executive Director of Career Development and Employer Relations at New York Law School

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Question from audience - What are job titles that JD students should be searching for when they are looking for JD advantage internships and entry level positions?

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How does a first year law student stand out and get introduced to this field? Most jobs are looking for people with experience, and I find it extremely hard to find the first opportunity.

Question 3: A company’s business and tech can be specific and niche. Any strategies to prepare for an interview for a JD+ role (risk, compliance, IP, etc.)? Thank you!

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Without a solid tech or privacy background, how important is the Cipp certification to attorneys?

Question: To flip the tables, what are the technical skills or knowledge that lawyers should have to succeed in privacy or tech laws?

Great. So there are so many jobs out there and there is such a need. But, how do you go about getting these opportunities? I have an MBA and now I have a JD as well and I am not getting any interviews no less offers. I try and network whenever possible and I attend events such as this and nothing seems to help. So what advice can you give to someone who has faced every roadblock possible and can’t seem to get a foot in the door no less a leg up?

Are there any Industry specific organizations like IAPP that you can recommend for current JD students to look into becoming members of or to learn more about things to help prepare them to secure opportunities in these areas?

A question for Lauren - have you felt that passing the patent bar was a barrier to any opportunities or is experience more important?

What is your recommendation for those of us that are non-traditional students? I.e Law is a second career and have a family, etc.

When you were applying for and accepting positions early in your careers, what value did you place on the people who would be your direct supervisors? (e.g., did their experiences, attitudes, visions, etc outweigh some traditional considerations of your law-bound peers because you were sort of mapping to your destination in real-time?)

Do you expect opportunities to work remotely will continue?

It might be helpful to take a look at the JD Advantage Career Guide that includes a list of job titles and key search terms for many JDA positions: https://www.nalp.org/uploads/JDAdvantage/JDAdvantageGuide.pdf

How would you recommend that international LLM students go about looking for opportunities in privacy law?

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These non-traditional paths are non-linear, which seems exciting but a bit unstable! What are things you all do or have in your life which keep you grounded?

I had an interview experience where, at the end, I asked the two people from the firm what made them excited to work at that firm, and one of them said "I take issue with the fact that you think lawyers are happy at their jobs." What do you think would have been an appropriate response for me to give to that answer?

@Kathleen: that’s a pretty big red flag. I don’t think it’s too much to ask to enjoy the work you do, to feel a strong connection to the mission… if someone at the firm - *in an interview* - is telling you that’s missing, I’d want to really dig in and understand whether that was an aberration, or representative of the firm more broadly.

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