Ep. 271: Networking During a Pandemic with Rachel Gezerseh
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges to college students, 1Ls and lawyers-to-be around the world. But where one door closes…another opens, dear listeners. Rachel Gezerseh (Panish, Shea and Boyle, LLP) is back on the pod to talk about how you can and should be networking for your legal career even though you can’t grab coffee or meet up with lawyers in person. Ben and Nathan also talk about the effectiveness of a JD MBA, they consider whether an MA certificate program will help your chances of getting into a good law school, they weigh some advice about personal statements from a pre-law advisor, and they offer advice to someone who just jumped from the 130s to the 150s. Plus, the guys answer LR question 11 from prep test 65. Read more on our website!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast uses words that are frequently used to describe lawyers. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 271 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast in State Line, Nevada. |
| 0:16.0 | I am Nathan Fox. |
| 0:17.0 | With me in Vienna, Virginia is Ben Olson. |
| 0:20.0 | And Rachel Gezerse is on a cliff in Big Sur apparently. |
| 0:27.0 | How you doing Rachel? |
| 0:28.0 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:30.0 | Where actually are you? |
| 0:38.3 | In real life. Yes. I am currently I live in Valencia California. Right I thought you were in Valencia. You're working from home these days? I am working from home living the dream no commute. |
| 0:44.3 | Cool. This is your third appearance on the show. How would you like to introduce |
| 0:51.4 | yourself to the audience? |
| 0:54.0 | Well, I am an attorney, first and foremost. |
| 0:58.0 | I am now a plaintiff, since last we talk, |
| 1:01.0 | I now work at a high stakes personal injury plaintiff firm, which has always been my dream. |
| 1:05.8 | And I transitioned to that actually during, on March 23rd during the pandemic. |
| 1:10.0 | So my entire career has at this new place has been remote, which has been amazing. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm also the author of the Law Career Playbook, which came out about almost two years ago |
| 1:21.0 | and has been selling like gangbusters in the pandemic as people are trying to navigate |
| 1:24.6 | how to network and find jobs in this new reality. |
| 1:28.9 | That is awesome. |
| 1:29.9 | We'll get back to a conversation with Rachel in just a second. We also will have on today's show a |
| 1:36.9 | a bunch of questions from listeners. Somebody wants to know whether JD MBAs are good for big law. |
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