News & Events

Information Session: Homeless Persons Representation Pro Bono Project

 HPRP is Maryland's only legal services and advocacy organization dedicated to eliminating homelessness. Student volunteers conduct interviews and gather essential data from clients for criminal record expungement in order to facilitate higher success rates for clients in obtaining employment and housing. Due to COVID, there have been some changes in how HPRP volunteers conduct intakes (now virtually). Please join us for a session with HPRP and OPI staff to learn more about how to get involved! Register to receive the link. 

Diversity Statement Writing Workshop

A diversity statement is just one more way for an employer to decide if you are the right fit for them—even as they try to change firm culture through pipeline and diversity programming. You are on your way to becoming a lawyer, so join this workshop on Diversity Statement Writing to sharpen your writing skills and make the case that you are the best person for the job!

Health Law and Policy Fall Faculty Meetup with Professor Grossman (Zoom)

Get to know Professors Wiley, Grossman and Scielzo during fall Faculty Meetups! Each professor will hold on campus, outdoor, small group sessions for students who are interested to learn more about their areas of expertise (as well as a Zoom session for those students unable to come to campus).

Professor Grossman will discuss food and drug law via Zoom on Wednesday, November 11th from 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm ET. Please email Program Coordinator Tori Nadel at vnadel@wcl.american.edu to receive the Zoom link. 

 

Gender and Law course Advising Session

Join the Women and the Law Program staff to learn more about all the courses in gender and law and family law being offered next semester. 

Success is Knocking!

When life doesn’t go exactly as you planned and you experience rejection, it is easy to lose confidence in yourself and your abilities. With the disruptions Covid-19 has caused, most are reeling from unplanned bumps in the road. If you are wondering what to do next in finding a job, finding a better job, or changing career direction, now is the time to dig deep, show resilience, reignite self-belief, rediscover self-worth, and wake up the winner that dwells deep inside. As we discuss self-doubt turning into self-esteem, we are not advocating just thinking positive thoughts. Positivity is a part of building a successful career, but right thoughts must turn into right actions.

In this webinar, Karla Brandau will cover how to:

• Increase charisma and confidence in six easy steps
• Live with positive expectation every day of your life
• Turn a negative spiral of self-doubt into a positive spiral of moving forward
• Give yourself the benefit of the doubt when you make human mistakes
• Turn rejection or life’s unexpected twists into lessons that move you forward

Karla Brandau is a leading authority on leadership for a more collaborative and productive workforce. She has educated leaders, managers, supervisors, and individual contributors with her proven people skills and productivity systems in companies such as Motorola, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Panasonic, Siemens, and BYD America. Government agencies that have benefited from her programs include NIH, NIDA, the EPA, and IBB. As a thought leader in the field of employee engagement and moving from a manager to a charismatic and confident leader, Karla has written “How to Earn the Gift of Discretionary Effort”, “The Leadership of One”, “Wake Up the Winner Inside”, and “Have More Day at the End of You Day”.