Building Your Personal Brand as a Pre-Law Student
We’ve all spent enough nights staring at practice tests to know that thinking like a lawyer can sometimes feel like losing your humanity. I know from personal experience that as a pre-law student there is so much pressure to build your LinkedIn profile up with a bajillion connections and half as many internships. While those things are important, your lens as a pre-law student is much more than your LSAT score or your interest in a specific practice area. It's also the things that make you, you! It's the filter through which you view the world's problems, and defining those things early can help you down the line.
As you work on building your personal brand, look at the experiences that shaped you before you ever picked up a prep book and find the common thread. Maybe your lens is build on a background in social work that makes you prioritize restorative justice, or a career in tech that taught you to view the law as an operating system. Whatever it is, own your unique perspective in your networking and your personal statements. Don't be who you think a lawyer should be, be who you are. Speak from the intersection of your own values and the mechanics of the legal system.
When you stop trying to fit into a generic mold you create a brand that is authentic to you and impossible for others to ignore!
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"Be who you are" resonated with me on this one @KatherineGalland_KCT. We definitely need more of that in the world. Wise words.
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