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Legal Recruiters and Where to Meet Them

published September 24, 2013

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Most law schools have people on their staffs whose job it is to publicize the school's good points, hand out publications, answer your questions, and encourage you to apply. These representatives may be law professors. They may be currently enrolled law students who receive law school funds to travel to their alma maters for the hometown law school fair. Most commonly, they are full-time professionals specializing in enrollment management. Their formal titles vary; I will refer to them as recruiters, representatives, or reps.

Law schools want you to talk to their reps. Reps will often come to your campus individually; last year, thirteen came to Bradley. The prelaw adviser, prelaw club, or placement center will maintain a calendar and arrange for reps to speak to interested students. At Bradley, we try to provide a quiet lounge for an hour or two on a Wednesday or Thursday afternoon (which we've found to be the time when most students are free). Students can come in and ask the rep questions individually or in small groups.


Reps are available at the annual open houses that many law schools hold, and they also attend college and university law school fairs. Larger universities typically attract more recruiters, although as many as twenty have attended Bradley's small September fair. Most of the reps at a campus fair come from law schools in the region. (If there's a recruiter from a school far out of the immediate area, a school that your prelaw adviser tells you has not drawn any of your college's graduates in recent years, that person is probably there because that law school is trying to increase its geographic diversity by enrolling more students from your region. Your application may be viewed unusually favorably at such a school.)

If your campus does not hold a law school fair, ask your prelaw adviser about fairs at neighboring campuses. Law Services sends your adviser an annual Recruitment Calendar; though it's admittedly incomplete, the 1991-92 edition lists more than 150 events. If you are a nontraditional student, ask the prelaw adviser at your alma mater, or at the university nearest to you, when the fair will be held. No one will object if you come and ask a few questions.

You can also speak to reps at one of the national law school forums that the Law School Admission Council sponsors each year. In 1991, forums were held in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. As opposed to campus fairs, which tend to be regional, the forums are of national scope. Representatives of 100 or more law schools are typically on hand.

Reps like to talk about the strong points of their schools and are knowledgeable about course offerings, special programs, unusually good faculty members, and similar details. If they're astute, they will know something about their students, especially those who are alumni of your college. (I often learn about my former advisees from law school reps.) They may have promotional videotapes and other advertising materials to show you. They usually bring catalogs and other publications with them.

Many have been trained to emphasize one or two things that distinguish their law schools from other law schools; therefore, they can often discuss truly unique educational programs. A rep can explain what you'll be studying if you want to specialize in, say, environmental protection law, and how her school differs from other schools with this emphasis. She can also tell you how many of her students take this option and what kind of placement history they have. Catalogs are often vague about such details.

You'll get the most useful information if you do some preparation before the interview. If you can say, "Your catalog said you specialize in environmental law, but you have fewer courses in it than law school," you'll get more specific information than if you just say, "Uh, do you guys have environmental law?" Reps have told me that they're more likely to be candid when they're talking to people who have demonstrated an interest in their schools by having done research.

Reps can also discuss student life, including such details as class size, financial aid, and the availability of housing. But remember, the rep is not an impartial informant. He works for the law school, and his job is to try to present it in the best light. He will not volunteer details of his campus's crime problem or parking problem. If you tactfully ask him direct questions about such things, you will probably get honest but vague answers. Similarly, don't expect definitive answers about your chances of admission. If you explain your status and grades to a rep and she discourages you from applying-if, for example, she gently suggests that you take extra coursework or graduate work to improve your grades before you apply-then you can assume that your chance of admission isn't very good. But the reverse isn't true. If the rep encourages you to apply, don't assume that you are assured of acceptance. It's part of the rep's job to encourage you to apply. Law schools like to have the luxury of a large applicant pool from which they can choose the best-qualified students with the maximum geographic and ethnic diversity. Unless your application status is hopeless, the rep wants to put you in this pool.

Whenever you talk to a recruiter, you will be asked to put your name and address on a list or to fill out a card. You may observe the recruiter taking notes about your conversation. Don't panic. This does not mean that your interview is part of the application process or that it will "count" in any way. The rep is going to put you on a mailing list for follow-up contact; if you've asked detailed questions, you can expect to get more information in the mail (perhaps some of those specialized brochures I mentioned earlier) or a letter from a specialized rep, such as a minority group adviser. The rep also monitors her own performance by keeping track of what kinds of questions she is asked. If people keep asking her the same question- perhaps, for example, about the incidence of date rape on campus- she will report the existence of widespread concern to her superiors. However, you shouldn't assume that you can be sloppy because the interview doesn't "count." The rep will always note his impressions of the people he talks to. If you are really obnoxious, he will remember, and he may mention it to someone whose opinion really does count. Law schools are small organizations. Their employees all talk to each other. Truly shocking or humorous details may make their way to professors who sit on the admissions committee, and you don't want to become famous as the kid at the recruiting luncheon whose idea of humor was to make mashed potatoes come out of his nose. Whenever you speak to any law school employee, you should be inoffensive and polite.

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published September 24, 2013

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