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What do you say when a potential employer asks, "Tell me about a project that you have managed and what you learned from that experience; tell me specifically about how you handled a difficult team member in implementing the project?" If you are like most law students, the slightest mention of "project management" or "difficult team member" makes you cringe, evoking painful memories of free-riding classmates. Once your discomfort passes, you either struggle to come up with a meaningful answer or fail to think of an experience demonstrating your project management and teamwork competencies. Would it surprise you to know that was supposed to be an easy question? What happens when you get a tricky question, such as, "What value do you bring beyond just technical legal skills to help our clients be successful?"
The Roadmap process transforms this type of challenging question into an opportunity to differentiate yourself from other students. You will not need to wait for a specific question about the value you bring beyond technical legal skills to help legal employers and clients. Instead, you will understand what skills legal employers and clients need and will be able to explain how your strongest skills can help them succeed. You will be prepared with your best stories to demonstrate persuasive evidence of your strongest skills.
“ . . . an amazing resource that enables young lawyers to get onto a successful career path. . . . The ROADMAP is, I think, a breakthrough. . . . It is the first book that integrates professional development in a manner that could be used in a for-credit course rather than a career-services add-on.”
—William Henderson, University of Indiana Law Professor and National Jurist’s most influential person on legal education
“With legal services in a time of disruption, it is more important than ever that law students develop effective, proactive strategies for meaningful employment that provide what the public needs. The ROADMAP provides a unique, tested approach to enabling every student to take the initiative in becoming a resilient, responsible professional through law school and into practice.”
—William Sullivan, Co-director of the Five Carnegie Foundation Studies on Educating for the Professions and co-author of Educating Lawyers
“Neil Hamilton is in the vanguard of professors who see that law school should be about the full development of students as professionals. His ROADMAP is a rich resource for every law student and law school—a work of passion that is packed with insight and real practical guidance.”
—Louis Bilionus, University of Cincinnati College of Law Former Dean
Contents
Acknowledgments vi
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Roadmap Steps... 1
Chapter 2 Completing the Online Roadmap Template... 31
Chapter 3 Your Timeline for the Roadmap Process... 39
Chapter 4 Building a Tent of Relationships with Professionals Who Both Support You and Trust You to Do the Work of a Lawyer... 51
Chapter 5 Completing the Online Template for Building a Tent of Professional Relationships... 69