ACS, in our continued effort to provide professional growth services to our members, is launching a career webinar series. Each webinar will feature an experienced attorney within the ACS network. The webinars will take place monthly. If you are interested in hosting a webinar on career services that you think law students and young attorneys will benefit from, please e-mail Palak Sheth, Associate Director of Network Advancement, at psheth@acslaw.org.
Career Webinar 1: How to Write a Resume that Gets the Job
Wed. April 18th, 2012, 12:00 p.m. EDT
Guest Speaker: Brette Steele
Brette Steele is currently Counsel in the Office of Legal Policy at the Department of Justice. She graduated from UCLA School of Law in 2007 and clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Following her clerkship, Ms. Steele worked as an appellate associate at Mayer Brown LLP. She has been an ACS Next Generation Leader since 2007 and an active member of the UCLA, Los Angeles, and DC Chapters.
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Career Webinar 2: Adding to Your Networking Quiver: The Art of the Informational Interview
Wed. May 9th, 2012, 12:00 p.m. EDT
Guest Speaker: Dino Pollock
Dino L. Pollock is currently Of Counsel at McCain White P.C. in Merrillville, Indiana where he focuses his practice on general civil litigation. He graduated from Valparaiso University School of Law in 2008 and clerked for Associate Justice Robert D. Rucker on the Supreme Court of Indiana and Chief Judge Charles N. Clevert, Jr., on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. A former VU Law student chapter president, he has been an ACS Next Generation Leader since 2008 and an active member of the Chicago, Indianapolis, and Milwaukee Lawyer Chapters. He is currently Vice Chair of the ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter.
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Career Webinar 3: Networking: Building Solid Career Connections
Wed. June 6th, 2012, 12:00 p.m. EDT
Guest Speaker: Sonja Ralston
Sonja Ralston is a Trial Lawyer with the Appellate Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division. A 2009 graduate of Duke's Law and Public Policy schools, she clerked for Judges David Tatel of the D.C. Circuit and Guido Calabresi of the Second Circuit before joining DOJ. Prior to law school, Sonja served as a Teach For America corps member in the Bay Area for two years. She has been an ACS Next Generation Leader since 2008.
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Career Webinar 4: A Relationship, Not A Recommendation: Developing a Mentoring Relationship
Wed. July 11th, 2012, 12:00 p.m. EDT
Guest Speaker: Donya Khalili 
Donya Khalili is the Executive Director of Skills to Succeed, a nonprofit in Kansas City that equips youth with developmental, clinical, and social needs and their families with necessary skills to thrive. She graduated from Yale University in 2002 and received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and a masters in bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 2008. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Boyce F. Martin, Jr. on the Sixth Circuit and to the Honorable Thomas N. O'Neill, Jr. on the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before coming to run Skills to Succeed, she was an associate at Susman Godfrey L.L.P. in New York. A former member of the national board of directors of the American Constitution Society, she also served on the boards of the ACS Lawyer Chapters in Philadelphia and Kentucky and for her law school chapter.
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- Click here to watch a recording of this webinar.
Social Media for Social Good and Your Career
Wed. August 15th, 1:00 p.m. EDT
Featuring:
Chris Geidner, Senior Political Reporter at Buzzfeed, and recent recipient of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association's Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for Excellence in LGBT Media. Geidner's four-part history of the Defense of Marriage Act for Metro Weekly earned him the 2011 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Article. He began his online career blogging as Law Dork during law school, and later served as Counsel to the Ohio Attorney General.
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- Click here to watch a recording of this webinar.
Should You Work Before You Clerk?
Featuring:
Christiaan Highsmith is a litigation associate at Goodwin Procter LLP in San Francisco. Last year he served as a law clerk for the Honorable George Z. Singal in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine. Before clerking he worked as a litigation associate for three years at Goodwin Procter in their Boston, MA and Washington, DC offices.
Mary Kelly Persyn is currently a Managing Associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where she focuses her practice on criminal defense and appellate litigation. After graduating from Columbia Law School in 2007, she worked at a large law firm and a small litigation boutique before clerking for Judge John T. Noonan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. An ACS member since 2004 and a Next Generation Leader since 2007, Mary Kelly led the Columbia Law School chapter and served on the board of the Boston chapter.