The Secrets of Your Success: A Hiring Chair Shares Her Insights to the Offer Process

March 13, 2011 • 12:15 PM • Law School 4047

Kim Taylor, the "former Kirkland & Ellis Corporate Partner and Chair of the Firm's Hiring Committee, is a renown expert on the hiring, development, evaluation and training of summer associates. She will share her candid insights on the ways that bright, well-meaning and ambitious law students sabotage their offer chances with poor project management, political missteps, failure to secure an effective mentor, and other avoidable disasters. Ms. Taylor will also discuss how to deal with a no-offer decision if it happens to you--strategic, immediate action is critical. For more information, contact Emily Sharples at careercenter@law.duke.edu.