Jim Leipold: Career Insight to Help the Next Generation of Law Grads

By Noah Austin

Jim Leipold has made a career of understanding the challenges that law school graduates face when they hit the job market. As a senior advisor for 카지노, he focuses on Legal Education Consulting (LEC), an initiative that develops custom solutions to help law schools achieve their institutional goals. In that role, he해외 카지노 추천�s translating his experiences and insight into knowledge for law schools to even better support their graduates.

Those experiences include Leipold해외 카지노 추천�s circuitous route to finding his place in the world of law. 해외 카지노 추천�It wasn해외 카지노 추천�t a direct path,해외 카지노 추천� he says. 해외 카지노 추천�In retrospect, it was a great career path, but I didn해외 카지노 추천�t set out to get where I was going.해외 카지노 추천� That해외 카지노 추천�s true of many law school graduates, who might struggle to find employment or try various roles in the industry before finding one that feels right. Through his work with LEC, Leipold is helping law schools ensure their graduates are well equipped to navigate the job market and profession.

That work is the continuation of a long history. For more than 18 years, Leipold led the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), which works to promote fair and ethical hiring processes for law students and lawyers, support professional development opportunities for legal professionals, and advocate for a diverse and inclusive legal profession. And this week, he해외 카지노 추천�s returning to NALP해외 카지노 추천�s Annual Education Conference in Boston in his 카지노 role.

The conference, Leipold says, is a chance to introduce people to an initiative that fits perfectly with his passion for improving the legal education landscape. 해외 카지노 추천�I think LEC해외 카지노 추천�s services provide a really valuable resource for law school deans,해외 카지노 추천� he says. 해외 카지노 추천�We have built this team of experts, and we can come in from the outside and provide some guidance and support.해외 카지노 추천�

Leipold has roots in the Midwest but grew up in Brussels, Belgium, while his dad was working in Europe. He applied to colleges overseas but ended up attending Brown University. When he graduated in 1984, the economy was booming and his peers were going into fields such as consulting and finance. 해외 카지노 추천�I didn해외 카지노 추천�t want to do any of that,해외 카지노 추천� he says, 해외 카지노 추천�so I went to Alaska and taught high school in a rural Indigenous community in the middle of nowhere for a while해외 카지노 추천� 해외 카지노 추천� an experience, he adds, that exposed him to the challenges faced by Indigenous communities.

At one point, when Leipold was considering going back to school for library science, he was reading The Chronicle of Higher Education and saw that the University of Vermont was hiring in undergraduate admission, with a focus on international recruitment. 해외 카지노 추천�I was like, bingo,해외 카지노 추천� he recalls. 해외 카지노 추천�I lived overseas. I could do that. And I knew what admissions was.해외 카지노 추천�

His law school journey was spurred by a move to Philadelphia, where his partner was completing a post-doctorate fellowship. 해외 카지노 추천�I had to figure out what I wanted to do,해외 카지노 추천� he says, 해외 카지노 추천�and I knew I didn해외 카지노 추천�t want to be a doctor and I didn해외 카지노 추천�t want an MBA, so I ended up in law school.해외 카지노 추천� That was at Temple University해외 카지노 추천�s Beasley School of Law, from which he graduated in 1993.

해외 카지노 추천�I loved law school, and I excelled at it,해외 카지노 추천� he says. 해외 카지노 추천�It was a great luxury to be back in the classroom full time after working for six years.해외 카지노 추천� And the experience also filled in some of the missing pieces in his understanding of 해외 카지노 추천�how America works 해외 카지노 추천� or was supposed to work in an ideal setting.해외 카지노 추천�

Leipold graduated during a major slowdown in the legal industry, and with student loan payments looming, he took a state court clerkship and made ends meet by reading admission files from the Temple law school on the side. That led to his hiring as the school해외 카지노 추천�s director of admissions, and in that position, he became active as an 카지노 volunteer on several committees, including the Services and 카지노 웹사이트 Committee해외 카지노 추천�s first LGBTQ subcommittee. 해외 카지노 추천�We put together some of the early candidate outreach about LGBTQ candidates and their experience in applying to law school,해외 카지노 추천� he says. 해외 카지노 추천�Law schools were just getting comfortable with saying those words out loud and in their materials. It해외 카지노 추천�s hard to imagine now, but it was a different time.해외 카지노 추천�

Eventually, Leipold moved to 카지노 full time, in a position overseeing law school services and programs. And after a few years, the opportunity to lead NALP came along. 해외 카지노 추천�I didn해외 카지노 추천�t have a ton of leadership experience, and I was young,해외 카지노 추천� he says. 해외 카지노 추천�I thought it was a long shot, but it was a perfect fit, and it allowed me to use my skills in the best way possible.해외 카지노 추천�

He saw NALP through economic ups and downs, including the recent pandemic, and he says he해외 카지노 추천�s proud of the continuing professional education and valuable research it provided during his tenure. 해외 카지노 추천�It was an ideal platform for championing diversity and equity,해외 카지노 추천� he says. 해외 카지노 추천�Because we had all the data, and we could hold the mirror up to the profession and say, 해외 카지노 추천�See? You think you해외 카지노 추천�re doing a good job. But look at African-American women, [for example,] and what해외 카지노 추천�s happening here.해외 카지노 추천� The patterns he saw then, he adds, are still in play today.

It was important work, but 18-plus years is a long time, and Leipold felt it was time for new leadership at NALP. Coming to 카지노, he says, was a logical next step. 해외 카지노 추천�I wanted to take all this expertise and use it to help others and other organizations,해외 카지노 추천� he says. 해외 카지노 추천�I had, kind of by default and timing and experience, become the country해외 카지노 추천�s leading expert on law school graduate employment in the marketplace. That해외 카지노 추천�s a tiny, tiny bit of expertise, but it was mine, and I had earned it over almost 20 years in the trenches.해외 카지노 추천�

Leipold is now focused entirely on helping law schools. Every school has unique challenges, which is why LEC does what Leipold calls 해외 카지노 추천�bespoke work해외 카지노 추천� to identify those challenges and design a solution that fits perfectly. On one recent project, Leipold해외 카지노 추천�s team worked with a school that had merged two campuses into a single law school and was trying to work through staffing and finance challenges; on another, it tackled factors that were affecting a school해외 카지노 추천�s U.S. News and World Report rankings.

In both cases, Leipold says, having an outside voice in the process was helpful for the schools. 해외 카지노 추천�I think American law school deans have some of the very hardest jobs in the country,해외 카지노 추천� he says. 해외 카지노 추천�And it해외 카지노 추천�s sometimes easier for them to hear from someone on the outside, not just internal voices.해외 카지노 추천�

This week해외 카지노 추천�s visit to the NALP conference is a chance for Leipold and other 카지노 representatives to build awareness of the LEC practice among NALP members. "We are taking a team of senior leaders from 카지노, and we're excited about sharing a little bit about all of the good work 카지노 has been doing," he says. "And, to be honest, I'm looking forward to seeing old friends and colleagues."

If you해외 카지노 추천�d like to meet Leipold at the conference, you can find him at the 카지노 booth (410) in the exhibit hall. And for more information about Legal Education Consulting, visit 카지노해외 카지노 추천�s website.