After graduation, I’ll be joining Debevoise and Plimpton’s New York office as a litigation associate where I plan to work within the intellectual property and, and I am very excited to return.
Dean Kaul was so helpful to me during the application process for summer internships and during the interview process. The Career Planning Office is so knowledgeable about all the firms and makes the recruiting process, which can be really stressful and opaque, manageable. Dean Kaul made time to personally reach out to me a few times to check in and see how my interviews were going. It meant the world to me.
The two main benefits of Michigan have been the friends I’ve made and the connections a U-M education gives you. At pretty much anywhere that I’ve been interested in working—law firm or otherwise—I’ve met a Michigan alum who works there and is more than happy to chat with me.
My advice for incoming Michigan Law students: try not to play the comparison game with your peers. Everyone studies, learns, interviews, and just generally does law school differently. Also, talk to the people who happen to sit near you during the admitted students weekend or orientation week. The person I sat next to is now my best friend three years later.
