Career Resources

Getting a first job or changing positions after receiving the LLM degree is a goal of students. Indeed, achieving a relatively better position than others seeking real estate careers is the main motivation of our students. While the Center advises students about career-related decisions and job-search strategies, students are encouraged to get acquainted with the resources and databases maintained by John Marshall's Career Services Office (CSO) and to talk to CSO staff about job searches and career advancement concerns. Among the many services available from the CSO are mock interviews and résumé review, which are especially helpful for those who begin the LLM program immediately after earning their JD degrees.

Networks and relationships help get jobs. Who you know or who knows of you can make a difference. Thus we advise students to identify and reconnect with the relationships and networks that they developed while undergraduates, while earning their JDs or while working. Networks and relationships are an important resource.  Additionally, bar associations and industry associations offer our students opportunities to meet real estate professionals and graduate business students.  Lambda Alpha International, CoreNet and the Eisenberg Foundation are among the organizations which have reached out to our students.

Certain Center students will also participate in the Real Estate Legal Practicum.  Through the Real Estate Legal Practicum, Center students have worked at offices such as Freeborn & Peters, Ticor Title, Motorola, Hinshaw & Culbertson, and Holland & Knight.  The Real Estate Legal Practicum gives full-time students an opportunity to complete an externship in a law firm, corporate law department, non-profit organization or government agency under the supervision of experienced commercial real estate practitioners.

The Center for Real Estate Law regularly partners with the CSO to present programs intended to help students better understand the career options open to real estate attorneys and learn about skills that will help advance their careers. Alumni of the LLM program and members of the adjunct faculty are often asked to speak at these popular programs.

For more information about the Center for Real Estate Law, please contact us or request information.