Student Opportunities
Connect with our student body to raise your profile on campus and meet your recruiting goals. Go beyond OCI to form strategic partnerships and customize programs that enhance your recruiting efforts. Expand your reach Law School-wide or target specific student organizations and affinity groups. Sponsorship is an effective recruiting tool whether you're looking for 1L-specific events or opportunities aimed at particular topics or practice areas (transactional, litigation, pro bono, etc). Please reach out to external-partnerships@law.northwestern.edu to be added to our outreach list.
1L Recruiting
Summer Law Preparatory Program
August
This intensive one-week program takes place before law school begins and is designed to demystify the process-oriented aspects of law school learning. Get your firm name in front of our students as they walk on campus by sponsoring this orientation activity and help our students be prepared to hit the ground running when classes start in September.
Law 101: Exploring Practice Areas
September and October
Our two most popular career panels of the year. Law 101: Exploring Practice Areas presents two panels: Introduction to Litigation and Introduction to Transactional Law. Each panel covers a variety of topics-a typical day in the office, qualities every attorney should possess, the transition from associate to partner–and provides a great opportunity for attorneys to give our students a peek into life and work at their firm.
1L Networking Training Series: Building Your Network
October
Join us for our annual 1L networking reception and further connect with the first year class. Featuring a networking expert, this reception teaches and enhances our first year students' professional networking capabilities. After the networking presentation, your attorneys have the opportunity to meet our students and discuss their practice areas as our students practice their networking skills. Each year's program sells out and this year's promises to do the same as we only accept five firm sponsors. So get on board early!
Fireside Chats: Alumni Speaker Series
Throughout the Fall and Spring semesters
Fireside Chats are an alumni speaker series designed to provide students with the opportunity to hear from motivating and inspirational alumni in a casual environment. Sponsorship of this program provides consistent exposure to the student body every month throughout the school year.
Exam Breaks
December and April
Get your name in front of every student at the Law School by sponsoring an exam break. During these breaks, students congregate to re–fuel with snacks and drinks, relax in a massage chair, and take a break from the stress of exams.
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Student-Led Programming
Student Organizations
More than 40 student organizations are active on campus and have developed out of students' academic and recreational interests. Each organization hosts programming and events on topics relevant to the group and welcome firm and corporate sponsorship.
For information on how to get involved with a particular student organization contact the Office of Executive and Professional Education. Find a list of current student groups.
Legal Journals
Second– and third–year law students are responsible for Northwestern's six scholarly legal journals, and members are selected on the basis of grade point average and performance in a writing competition. If you are interested in gaining access to these students, or if you want information on how to get involved with journal symposia, please contact the Office of Executive and Professional Education.
Northwestern University Law Review
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (JCLC)
Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business (JILB)
Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy (JLSP)
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property (JTIP)
Journal of Human Rights (JHR)
Northwestern Law Journal des Refusés (NLJR)
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