In this episode, Lawyer, Author, Blogger and adjunct professor Rachel Gezerseh shares her secrets to securing a dream job or internship.  In this episode, Prof. Gezerseh explains the Dark Job Market, and explains how to use networking to leverage a career.  She describes how she turned her law school experience at an unranked law school into a Big Law job with Jones, Day.  Her best advice: network, network, network.  And, as you will hear in this episode, Prof Gezerseh is true to her word, inviting any of our dear listeners to connect with her on LinkedIn and in return, she will help you reach your networking goals.

About our guest…

Rachel Gezerseh is the author of The Law Career Playbook: The Guerrilla Guide to Getting a Job You Actually Like, and the blog, Break into Big Law. She is a partner at Liang, Ly, LLP.  Her practice involves a wide variety of complex commercial litigation in federal and state courts, where she represents both plaintiffs and defendants. She has substantial experience in products liability and consumer protection matters, as well as in contract and business tort cases. Rachel’s peers have consistently recognized her as a Southern California Super Lawyers “Rising Star.”

Before joining Liang Ly LLP, Rachel practiced at Jones Day, in Los Angeles, California. Rachel has handled all phases of litigation, including trial preparation, oral argument, settlement negotiations, strategy formulation, and appeals, as well as internal investigations. Recently, Rachel was the lead associate defending ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in a commercial dispute regarding control of the top-level .AFRICA domain. Rachel was also lead counsel defending a national credit reporting agency in several cases filed in federal court.

Rachel takes pride in mentoring new lawyers and is an Adjunct Professor at Southwestern Law School, where she teaches LawCareerLab, a course she developed to teach law students and recent graduates how to position themselves as desirable candidates and build meaningful connections in the profession.

Want to learn more about Rachel Gezerseh? Visit the links below: 

 http://www.lianglyllp.com/rachel-gezerseh

The Law Career Playbook: The Geurrilla Guide to Getting a Legal Job you Actually LIke is available at https://www.amazon.com/Law-Career-Playbook-Guerrilla-Actually/dp/1732637202/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=rachel+gezerseh&qid=1552350312&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spell

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