Dear 1L – Summer Spotlight – Law Student Networking
Dear 1L – Summer Spotlight:
I’m starting a second series. It aims to connect law students and lawyers. But first,
🔷 PREFACE: Do you follow Alex Su? You should.
Here, on Tik Tok, he’s brilliant. He’s also a master people connector whom I admire greatly. He inspires this post.
A couple days ago, Alex shared a networking post. It encouraged people to Comment with a self-introduction if they were interested in growing their networks.
🔸 The notes he’s received are very much worth a read (see thread if you haven’t yet seen, link in comments).
Within hours of reading Alex’s post, I’d already had conversations with:
-a highly credentialed lawyer and moot court coach in Germany;
-a budding lawyer and author in India; and
-a law student in Poland.
⭐️ This is LinkedIn’s magic. It all happens in the Comments.
Although any “following” of mine dwarfs that of Alex, (and I’m not tagging, for surely he has more important things to do), hopefully, this post helps people, too.
Just type, below here and on Alex’s thread:
-who you are (broadly defined)
-what you seek on LinkedIn
1, 2, easy, peasy. We all have to start somewhere, right?
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🔷 SUMMER SPOTLIGHT: Gregory Parker
New this summer: meet pre-L Greg Parker.
Greg is a first-generation college grad and future law student who grew up in rural West Virginia. Some stats:
▫️ Greg served in the U.S. Army from 2002-2010, when a disabling work injury sidelined him. Following a two-year recovery, Greg returned to full-time contractor work for the FBI and DoD, before more recently returning to complete college and start law school.
▫️ Greg is the single father of an “awesome” 13-year-old boy, who, Greg shares, “amazes me every day with his resilience.”
▫️ I have found Greg to be a gifted, intellectually curious, and motivated future advocate with an enormous heart. He aspires to federal clerkships, scholarly publishing, and related pursuits in academia.
Greg’s end goal is “to be able to pass on knowledge and leave the world a little bit better than the way in which it was handed to me.” That resonates deeply with me.
Please join me in welcoming this budding creator and legal scholar to our LinkedIn community.
Happy Sunday.
Fondly,
Amanda
May 22, 2022
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