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SPECIALIZED STUDENT SUPPORT WHEN YOU ENROLL AT FSU LAW, you join a community where the administration places a high priority on providing individualized support to students. In addition to support from alumni and faculty members, students have personalized advising, mentoring and counseling resources through several offices on campus.
Our Career Services and Professional Development Office meets one-on-one with law students to help them launch their careers. The Career Services team will collaborate with you to create individualized job-search strategies, based on your specific goals and aspirations. Students receive counseling on a wide range of topics, including interviewing, drafting cover letters and resumes, and searching for jobs in desired locations and practice areas. Through advising and professional development initiatives, the Career Services team prepares students to be knowledgeable, confident and competitive in the legal market.
Our Academic Programs Office was created in 2017 to provide more personalized guidance to students on course selection, and to offer enhanced legal writing and other academic support. The office also is dedicated to helping students and recent graduates as they prepare for bar exams. FSU Law also has a full-time bar support professor, whose sole focus is helping students prepare for bar exams and who has a strong record of preparing test-takers for success.
The professionals in our Student Advancement Office are always available to assist students. One of the many ways they support students is through our Raising the Bar Professionalism+ Program, which was launched in 2018 to assist students as they begin to form their professional identities. An exciting component of the program is that all third-year students may elect to have a professionalism mentor assigned to them—someone who will help them as they transition from law student to new lawyer. This new initiative will provide you with many tools to help you thrive in law practice. The office also hosts a wide variety of wellness events for students.
“I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR FSU LAW’S CAREER SERVICES OFFICE and the resources they provide to students. Through their OnCampus Interview Program, I was able to obtain a summer associate position at Hill Ward Henderson, a full-service law firm in Tampa. The practical experience I gained encompassed different practice areas, including commercial litigation, corporate transactions and employment law.” Melina Garcia (’18) is an associate at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in Seattle. She clerked at Hill Ward Henderson in Tampa during the summer after her 2L year and previously was an associate in the firm’s Tampa office.
