Dallas Partners ‘Tell All’ at Careers Program for University of Texas 1Ls

Winston & Strawn hosted a lunch program at the University of Texas School of Law on October 20 for 1L students interested in learning more about Big Law life and strategies for success on this career path.

During their presentation titled “The Insider’s Guide to Big Law: Partners Tell All,” Dallas Partners John Sanders (Texas ‘07) and Jordan Klein (Texas ’06) shared their insiders’ perspective through real-world stories and anecdotes, providing attendees with a number of valuable “tricks of the trade”:

• When deciding on your career path, talk to real people about their experiences: your professors, fellow UT classmates and fellow undergrad alums, contacts in clubs or associations (BLSA, Women in Law), older classmates, your family, extended family, or friends of the family.
• When interviewing with law firms, ask lots of questions of the interviewers: their experience working at their firm, the firm’s culture, how work is assigned and staffed, its reputation in your city of interest, its reputation nationally.
• When you’ve landed your first BigLaw job: listen, learn, observe—then perform and improve. Learn the preferences of the people you work with so you can make their lives easier. And if you don’t know the answer, say “I don’t know, but I can find out.”

The prior evening, we enjoyed meeting members of the UT Law Class of 2022 at Texas Talks: Careers in Law, where Winston hosted an informational table to connect with 1Ls and answer their questions about our firm and law firm life. Houston Associates Cori Hockman and Matt Tanner (Texas ’13) and Dallas Associates Rachel Koehn and Steven Franklin represented the firm at this event.

Winston’s 2020 summer program is expected to run from mid-May to late July. Please visit our Law Students Careers page for more details.