The Career Services office at Santa Clara University’s School of Law will once again present author Kimm Walton who will talk about getting the legal job of your dreams. The program will be held in Bannan 127 from 4-6 pm on Tuesday, January 25. Refreshments will be served.
Ms Walton will address questions like: Where do you start? How can you overcome disappointing grades? What can you do during your law school career to maximize your odds of landing a job in a practice area that truly interests you? Most importantly, how do you find a law job that will make you look forward to going to work in the morning? Don’t miss this exciting special event! ALL law students and alumni are welcome.
Kimm Walton, is a popular law school author who has authored several books in addition to Guerilla Tactics for Getting the Legal Job of Your Dreams including, America’s Greatest Places to Work with a Law Degree, What Law School Doesn’t Teach You, But You Really Need to Know, and The Best of the Job Goddess, a collection of her favorite “Dear Job Goddess” columns. . They are all available at Law Career Services and the Heafey Law Library.
Kimm earned her law degree from the Case Western College of Law. After graduating without a job, she jumped at the first offer she got, which was to write a book about investing in biotechnology. After deciding that writing was the career for her after all, she created a series of legal study aids that she believed would help law students learn better by making them laugh. Every publisher she approached rejected her idea, saying that law students have no sense of humor. Determined to see her ideas in print, she wrote a business plan, raised a million dollars, and started a publishing company of her own. After three years of constant rejection, bookstores finally agreed to give her products a try. Since then, law students nationwide have spent more than twenty-five million dollars on the study aids she created. It is Law In A Flash, the flash cards in the yellow boxes.
After selling Law In A Flash, Kimm turned her attention to her many writing projects and now works as a consultant to law schools, providing career programs and counseling to students and alumni. In the last four years, she has visited more than a hundred and twenty law schools around the country, and talked to more than twenty thousand law students.
