Want a face-to-face interview with a prospective employer basedthousands of miles away, without all that pesky travel? No problem –if you’re a student at a law school using a cutting-edge recruitmenttool called Law School Connect.

The College of William & Mary recently announced the launch of Law School Connect, a nationwide network linking law firms, law schools, nonprofits and judges through videoconferencing. The network is a joint project between William & Mary Law School’s Courtroom 21 Project, an ongoing real-life demonstration of the uses of cutting-edge technology in the legal system, and Courtroom Connect, a company that provides Internet, videoconferencing, and content-streaming products to the legal industry.