Not Too Late to Clerk: A Discussion on Mid-Practice Judicial Clerkships

 

Pondering the value of adding a judicial clerkship to your resume, but afraid you might have missed the boat on applying while in law school? Think again! Join the HLSA of Washington, DC for a conversation featuring HLS alumni who clerked after having started their legal careers elsewhere as practicing attorneys. The panelists will share their experiences with the application process, considerations that factored into their decisions to clerk, reflections on their time in chambers, and thoughts on how clerking has helped shape their career trajectories. Also joining us will be a representative from the HLS Office of Career Services (OCS), who will provide an overview on the resources offered to both alumni and soon-to-be graduates considering a clerkship as a career move.

 

Date: Monday, February 28, 2022
 
Time: 6 PM - 7:30 PM
 
Online/virtual program via Zoom
 
(Zoom information will be emailed to registrants prior to the event.)
 
Our panelists will be Natacha Lam '14, Jaimie Lasky-McFarlin '15, anneke dunbar-gronke '19, and Elizabeth (Liz) Blume, Assistant Director of Judicial Clerkships at OCS. The program will be moderated by HLSA-DC board member John Dey '14.
 

Natacha Lam '14 is a Trial Attorney at the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section. After graduating from HLS, she spent two years as a legal fellow for Americans United For Separation of Church and State, a non-profit organization that litigates First Amendment cases in federal district and appellate courts. She then clerked for Chief Judge Gregory on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. After her clerkship, she spent two years as an associate at Jenner & Block LLP's DC office and joined the Civil Rights Division in 2020.

 
Jaimie McFarlin '15 serves as a Deputy Associate Counsel in the White House Counsel’s Office. She was previously an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel for the Biden-Harris Presidential Transition. Before joining the transition, McFarlin worked in a legal and operations role for a fashion start-up. Prior to that position, McFarlin was an associate at Sidley Austin LLP and clerked for Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. McFarlin was also an associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Originally from New York, she graduated from Harvard Law School, where she was a NAACP Legal Defense Fund Earl Warren Scholar. She received her Bachelor of Arts as a John B. Ervin Scholar and her MBA as a Consortium for Graduate Study in Management Fellow, both from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to law school, McFarlin played professional basketball in Copenhagen, Denmark.
 
anneke dunbar-gronke '19 is a Skadden Fellow for Fair Housing and Community Development at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where their work centers on ensuring Black people in Baltimore can stay in their homes and building toward a future of permanently affordable housing and community control over housing and land. Prior to joining the Lawyers' Committee, anneke served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Before clerking, anneke worked as a Litigation Fellow at the plaintiff side employment firm Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP, where anneke worked primarily on race-based employment discrimination matters. Anneke graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in political science. While at HLS, they served as an Articles Editor and organizer of the Prison Abolition Symposium at the Harvard Law Review, a Law and Social Change Fellow, co-chair of the Harvard Black Law Students Association's (HBLSA) political action committee, a student attorney and Chair of Outreach with the student-led criminal defense organization Harvard Defenders, and a core organizer of the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign.
 
Elizabeth (Liz) Blume advises students and alumni seeking judicial clerkships. She joined OCS in January 2015 as a Clerkship Specialist and spent several years tracking hiring practices among judicial chambers. Liz obtained her J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a Thomas and Karole Green Scholar in Law and a Bioethics Research Assistant. She has experience as a law clerk for the Massachusetts Superior Court, as well as with a hospital, a consulting firm, and a small law practice. Prior to law school, she worked in Washington, D.C. as a Congressional staffer and for the government relations practice of a large law firm. Liz lives in Dedham, MA with her family and plays for a tennis team.
 
The program will be moderated by HLSA-DC board member John Dey
 

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6:00PM - 7:30PM Mon 28 Feb 2022, Eastern timezone

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