Law Student Mentorship: Building Connections with Mentors

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• Harrison recommends getting a job inside law firms for aspiring legal professionals.
• You can start by working with paralegals or as a law firm employee.
• Finding a mentor in a law firm is a valuable idea.
• Many successful lawyers began as secretaries or paralegals before law school.
• Consider this advice to kickstart your legal career effectively.

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The best way to do that is to get jobs inside law firms. You can get jobs inside of working there, and that's probably the best thing I can recommend is just you can get jobs with paralegals. You can get a job working inside a law firm and then working for an attorney there.

You could find a mentor reasonably quickly; that's a good idea. I know a lot of people. Those who run across them all the time have worked in law firms as secretaries or paralegals and things before going to law school. So I think that could help you quite a bit.