Attorneys Help Students Learn About Law

Associates at many large law firms take for granted that their jobs require long hours of detail oriented work and that professional advancement requires increasing substantive mastery of a specialized practice area. However, immersed as they are in the daily maelstrom of legal practice, some associates may neglect to develop the dense web of relationships that is required to support a truly healthy career — relationships with clients, with the legal community and with the broader civic community of Chicago. One way associates can start building such relationships is by working together with in-house attorneys of a firm client on a community service project that advances the charitable objectives of both organizations while providing professionals on both sides of the firm-client relationship the opportunity to interact outside of the everyday professional relationship.