Design Your Life in the Law

2 credits · Law School

A life in the law in the 21st century offers increasingly varied and rich opportunities, starting in law school and extending into a rewarding professional journey that can last for several decades. At the same time, the profession can present many challenges as reflected in empirical data, including on mental wellbeing and high rates of associate attrition. How do you start now to plan your professional journey with intention and purpose, to explore and design paths that will lead to your thriving and success the law? Three years earning a JD can pass by without deliberate, proactive reflection on cultivating a career that best capitalizes on a young lawyer’s unique skills, style, passions, and principles. This course offers the opportunity to explore these big questions through applying the principles and methods of innovation and creative problem solving to intentionally design your life and vocation as a lawyer, and to effectuate that design in and beyond Vanderbilt Law. Enrollment Limited. [2]