Legal Career Options Night Features Top Employers
One of the unique programs at RWU is Legal Career Options Night, an event conceived and directed by Assistant Dean for Career Services Anthony Bastone. It is a great event which brings to campus representatives from more than 60 institutions, proving what, according to Bastone is “the versatility of the J.D. degree.”
Here is a sampling of the folks from the public sector who spoke with RWU students (all in business attire, as the pictures show!):
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield
• Office of Connecticut Chief State’s Attorney
• Office of Rhode Island Attorney General
• United States Secret Service (but nobody was wearing an earpiece!)
• Federal Public Defender
Here just some of the leading law firms represented:
• Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
• Greenberg Traurig
• Little Medeiros Kinder Bulman & Whitney
• Nixon Peabody
• Partridge Snow & Hahn
• Wistow & Barylick
From the corporate sector we had representatives from:
• Sun Microsystems
• New England Patriots
• All State Insurance
• Gilbane Building
• First American Mortgage Guarantee and Title
Alumni in attendance included:
• Madeleine Bass, Mediation Consultants
• Esme DeVault, Staff Attorney, Rhode Island Ethics Commission
• Stephanie Federico, Senior Assistant to the Chief of Staff, Providence Mayor David Cicilline
• Michael Field, Special Assistant Attorney General, RI Department of Attorney General
• Lauren Graham, Immigration Advocate, South Coastal Counties Legal Services, Inc.
• Terrence Haas, Judicial Clerk, the Honorable Chief Justice Frank J. Williams, RI Supreme Court
• Shelley Rhoads Perry, Gift Planning Officer, The Rhode Island Foundation
• Matthew Plain, Taylor Duane Barton & Gilman
• Joelle Sylvia, Desisto & Feodoroff
• Jason Van Volkenburgh, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
After 90 minutes of meet-and-greet, participants are treated to a champagne reception.
Here I am along with (from left to right) Kathy Sulentic, a 2L who interned for Sun Microsysytems last summer; Veronica Paricio, our new Director of Career Services; Connie Brenton from Sun Microsystems in Colorado; and Anthony Bastone, our Dean of Career Services
Kathryn Thibault from the government sector
The Honorable Elaine Bucci of RI District Court
David DiMarzio, Clerk of Court at U.S. District Court
Theodore Howell from Partridge, Snow & Hahn (L) and Derek Davis from Greenberg Traurig (R)
