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3L In Charge Of Alumni Giving Encourages Unemployed 3Ls Not To Give

Should you boycott alumni giving?

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LETTER FROM 3L “LEGACY PROGRAM” MEMBER — UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LAW

Hey folks,

We’re only a few months away from graduation, which means the big push for us to commit to donate money will begin shortly. As the Co-Chair of the Class of 2014 3L Legacy Campaign, I have been tasked with eliciting donations from you all, but I wanted to touch base with you before that process begins.

According to our website, the purpose of the 3L Legacy Program is to promote and support “continued excellence” and “the same high quality educational experiences at Georgia Law.” Although there is no doubt we receive the best legal education there is to offer here at the University of Georgia, the academic experience is only one aspect of attending law school.

If you feel that the University of Georgia School of Law and our Legal Career Services has done an inadequate job of helping you and your classmates search for future employment, I encourage you NOT to pledge money to this school.

Again, according to our website, the goal of Legal Career Services is “to provide students with the tools, resources, and guidance necessary to enable them to secure fulfilling employment in line with their career goals and individual qualifications.” But too often, I hear our peers discuss their personal frustrations with our Legal Career Services. Particularly for those who aren’t at the top of our class, the lack of focus in helping place students in small to midsized firms in communities outside Atlanta has become all too apparent. A large number of students have been left to their own devices. More and more of our classmates are deciding to forgo practicing law altogether. The job market is disastrous enough, but with inadequate leadership from career services advisors, the blind is simply leading the blind into a dark world of uncertainty.

Student-faculty committees have been formed to discuss improvement in this area as well as many others, and I applaud those efforts. But without us taking a stand together, we as students have no leverage in which to force the administration to hear our pleas.

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Legal Career Services is not fulfilling their purpose. They are not providing students with “the tools, resources, and guidance” needed to secure employment. Something has to be done about it.

Therefore, I encourage you to withhold your commitment for future contributions until we are seen as more than a statistic. Until we are more than just an invisible body that spends three years walking in and out of Hirsch Hall. Until we see real improvement in helping students find careers, not only for our class but for all upcoming and future graduates of Georgia Law.

Otherwise, this school will do nothing to improve their standards for “continued excellence” and will simply offer more of “the same.”

We are leaders. And it’s time for us to lead.

Thanks for your support,
[Redacted]

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