Jill Backer

February 23, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The time saved from not having to travel may allow for a broadening of the base of who the firms interview.

By Jill Backer

4 minute read

January 29, 2021 | New York Law Journal

This coalition of law school faculty, administrators, staff, students and alumni is committed to building an anti-racist culture and climate in law schools.

By Jill Backer

3 minute read

April 25, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The legal market is going to have to stop the rhetoric of diversity initiatives and pipeline programs and figure out how to actually increase the number of minorities in the profession, and in positions of leadership.

By Jill Backer

9 minute read

March 19, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Career centers at law schools are faced with the sometimes competing interests of reporting data and building a service relationship with their new graduates. The regulators and indeed the legal profession as a whole need to decide what is important.

By Jill Backer

6 minute read

April 18, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Jill Backer, assistant dean for career and professional development at Pace Law School, discusses how LinkedIn and other social media platforms can be effective and beneficial modes of professional communication and networking if utilized properly and effectively.

By Jill Backer

10 minute read

August 17, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Jill Backer of Pace Law School writes: Solid legal education has always contained the element of hands-on learning, whether in an apprenticeship or now in law school clinics or jobs with legal employers. Today, law schools are taking practical skills to a higher level to achieve the type of readiness that legal employers require and demand.

By Jill Backer

5 minute read

August 16, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Jill Backer of Pace Law School writes: Solid legal education has always contained the element of hands-on learning, whether in an apprenticeship or now in law school clinics or jobs with legal employers. Today, law schools are taking practical skills to a higher level to achieve the type of readiness that legal employers require and demand.

By Jill Backer

5 minute read

May 22, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Jill Backer, assistant dean for career and professional development at Pace Law School, writes: Section 342 will likely have a large impact on recruiting and diversity practices within the financial industry, and will also impact the legal industry as a vendor of the financial industry.

By Jill Backer

5 minute read

May 21, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Jill Backer, assistant dean for career and professional development at Pace Law School, writes: Section 342 will likely have a large impact on recruiting and diversity practices within the financial industry, and will also impact the legal industry as a vendor of the financial industry.

By Jill Backer

5 minute read

April 20, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Jill Backer, assistant dean of career and professional development at Pace Law School, writes: A J.D. is a versatile degree. So, why are the various regulators and reviewers of law schools making a sharp delineation between those graduates that are practicing law in the traditional sense which requires the Bar exam and those graduates using their degree in other ways?

By Jill Backer

6 minute read