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The summer after your second year can be the most important internship time of your law school career. If you approach this time correctly, it can be a gateway to a satisfying and productive legal career. Your second summer internship is so important because based on this internship you may be offered a full time attorney's job to begin after you take the bar exam. Many of the big, prestigious firms select their new associates from their summer interns, and even some public organizations select their new attorneys this way. When I was in law school, a few of my classmates were hired as assistant district attorneys at the end of the summer after their second year. This means that some law students after their second summer, or during the fall semester of their third year, have secured a full time job that awaits them upon their graduation. Knowing that you will have a job waiting for you after graduation can be a huge stress relief for several reasons. First, you will not have to worry about finding a job, which will allow you to enjoy your last year of school more. Second, you can begin to imagine what your career three to five years in the future will look like and begin to prepare for that time. Finally, you can begin to accurately plan your post-law school life such as where you will live. The time to begin to prepare for your second year summer internship is immediately upon returning for your second year because the deadlines for some jobs that second year students apply for can be much earlier than the jobs available for first year students. Some of these deadlines will even occur in the fall semester of your second year. This happens because at the beginning of your second year future employers have a significant amount of information upon which they can evaluate you such as grades for two semesters and a summer internship. Your law school's career services office is the best place to begin your search for the internships you are interested in, their deadlines, and what is needed to submit an application to those internships. The following websites provide career information and information on searching for jobs.
Other related articles on this website include Satisfying Career and First Summer. Happy job hunting! Michael Santana If you have any questions or comments about this article, or want to write your own article about the pre-law or law school process, feel free to contact me.
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