From Lawyer to Administrator
From Lawyer to
Administrator
? NALP 2006. NALP grants permission to NALP law school members to reproduce print copies of this publication for distribution to students and graduates. For all other inquiries about reproduction rights, please contact NALP's Director of Publications Janet Smith at jsmith@ of 202-835-1001.
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Introduction
The original Lawyer to Administrator Handbook was born when David Baum, Assistant Dean of Students at University of Michigan Law School, Ellen Cosgrove, Associate Dean and Dean of Students at Harvard Law School, and Anne Lukingbeal, Associate Dean and Dean of Students at Cornell Law School, began discussing how they came to be in law school administration. When they noticed a trend among their own graduates, namely that many of them were looking to leave law practice for higher education administration, they came up with the idea of surveying other administrators about their career paths. The survey responses were compiled into the Lawyer to Administrator Handbook, which was originally published in Spring 2004.
The original handbook was organized essentially as a narrative. This revised version has been reorganized by topic:
4 The options available in administration; 4 Why administrative jobs are attractive; 4 The pros and cons of a career in administration; and 4 How to get a job in administration.
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Acknowledgments
In the classic style of a bad Oscar-winning speech, we would like to thank all those who made this publication and web resource possible. The titles and institutional affiliations listed here are those as of the time the information for the original handbook was collected in the spring of 2003.
The editors, survey compilers, and those brilliant minds responsible for the original concept:
I David Baum, Assistant Dean of Students, University of Michigan Law School
I Ellen Cosgrove, Associate Dean and Dean of Students, Harvard Law School
I Anne Lukingbeal, Associate Dean and Dean of Students, Cornell Law School
Those who responded to the survey and allowed their words and thoughts to live on forever and ever:
I Karen Comstock, Assistant Dean for Career Services, Cornell Law School
I John DeRosa, Assistant Dean for Student Services, Cornell Law School
I Diane Downs, Assistant Dean for Career Services, University of Pennsylvania Law School
I Gihan Fernando, Assistant Dean for Career Services, Georgetown University Law Center
I Richard Geiger, Associate Dean and Dean of Admissions, Cornell Law School
I Mary Beth Grant, Judicial Administrator, Cornell University I Susan Guindi, Assistant Dean, Office of Career Services, University
of Michigan Law School I Michelle L. Jeffrey, Assistant Director of Admission, Cornell
Law School I Michael Machen, Director of Financial Aid, University of Chicago
Law School I Jennifer D'Arcy Maher, Assistant Dean for International Studies,
Duke University School of Law I Jill Miller, Assistant Dean of Students, Duke University School of Law I Risa M. Mish, Director of Alumni Relations, Johnson Graduate School
of Management, Cornell University
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I Abel Montez, Director of Student Affairs, Fordham University School of Law
I Marsha Ferziger Nagorsky, Director of Special Projects and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law School
I Ann Perry, Assistant Dean for Admissions, University of Chicago Law School
I Kate Rainbolt, Public Interest Coordinator, Cornell Law School I Sophia Sim, Director of Admissions, Georgetown University Law
Center I Meredith Wade, Assistant Director of Admissions, Georgetown
University Law Center I Stacey Wiley, Associate Director for Career Services, Cornell Law
School
Those responsible for converting a book into a web resource:
I Meghan Commins, Intern, Davis Polk & Wardwell I Bonnie Hurry, Director of Recruiting & Legal Staff Services, Davis Polk
& Wardwell I Liz Peck, Director of Career Services, Cornell Law School I Janet Smith, Director of Publications, NALP I Fred Thrasher, Deputy Director, NALP
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Table of Contents
What Are Your Options? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Admissions/Financial Aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Student Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Career Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Alumni Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 International Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Judicial Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Hybrid Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Why Would You Want a Job Like This? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Work/life Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Making an Immediate, Tangible Difference in People's Lives . . . . . . . 15 Working with Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Working with Other University Professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Working in an Educational Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Having a More Predictable Work Schedule with Some Flexibility . . . . 20 Working "Non-Billable" Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Advancing the Mission of Higher Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Having a High Level of Autonomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
What Positive and Negative Factors Should You Consider? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Making Less Money than Lawyers Who Practice Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Being "Below" the Faculty in the Law School Hierarchy. . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Geographic Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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