UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of the Liberal Arts will host a two-day event to introduce students to careers in law on Oct. 5 and 6. The showcase will feature Penn State Liberal Arts alumni working in the field who will discuss applying to law school, share career advice and provide overviews of different paths to follow within law.
The first event on Thursday, Oct. 5 will be an alumni panel at 7:30 p.m. in 101 Chambers, followed by a question and answer session. On Friday, Oct. 6, students will be able to meet with alumni in one-on-one appointments in 322 HUB for a more intimate discussion about their futures in law. While all the one-on-one time slots are currently full, students can be added to the wait list by contacting Kristin Harpster at kmm21@psu.edu.
Alumni guests at the two-day event will include:
— Jill M. Caughie, a crime, law, and justice and psychology alumna, and the associate director of legal recruiting for Cozen O’Connor in Philadelphia. Caughie manages her firm’s summer associate program and works with the hiring and diversity committees to shape the firm’s recruiting and retention strategies. She is a graduate of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law.
— Chena L. Glenn-Hart, a political science alumna, and a shareholder of McQuaide Blasko Attorneys at Law in State College. Her legal concentration is on civil litigation in labor and employment law, personal injury and insurance defense. She is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire School of Law.
— Robert S. Donaldson, a law enforcement and corrections alumnus, who graduated from the University of Miami School of Law before becoming the principal of Donaldson Law Office in 2010. He has also previously served as the deputy attorney general for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in its Organized Crime and Narcotics Section.
— Barry P. Hoffman, an arts and letters alumnus, who is now retired after previously working as the executive vice president and general counsel of Valassis Communications, Inc., a media company specializing in data analytics, direct mail, newspaper, and digital sectors. While with Valassis, Hoffman aided the company’s mergers and acquisitions and led the company’s Corporate Human Resources Division and Communications Center. Hoffman attended George Washington University Law School.
To learn more about the event and the alumni participants, please visit the event website here.