Campus to Career Experience: 2025 Schedule and Programming
9:00 a.m.
Various locations (in program details)
Breakfast with the Inns: Plan for Success
Classroom A - Adams
Classroom D - Bent
Classroom E - Bowman
Classroom F - Kaye
Classroom G - Simcox
F&R Courtroom - Radwan
Classroom AD237 - Podgor
Eleazer Courtroom - Vaughan
Classroom AD102 - Flex JD
9:45 a.m.
Great Hall
Welcome and remarks
Flora Patel, SBA President and Senior Campus to Career Fellow
Anne Mullins, Associate Dean for Assessment and Professional Engagement, and Professor of Law
10:00 a.m.
Great Hall
Keynote: Wake Up Call
The Risk of Identity: What if it all works out? In a world obsessed with self-branding and curated online personas, we often shy away from the risks of authenticity. This session delves into the power of vulnerability and the potential rewards of embracing our unique identities. Join us as we explore the illusion of perfection, the power of imperfection, and the rewards of vulnerability. This interactive session will challenge you to reconsider your approach to identity and inspire you to live a more authentic and fulfilling life.
11:00 a.m.
Florin Roebig Courtroom
Me, as a Lawyer
Michelle Kotler and Anne Mullins
Interactive, facilitated, and productive, this session tees up the afternoon's practice mentoring rooms by identifying and explaining features of different kinds of practice and different settings and markets. INteractive exercises will help students explore their core values and interests so they can align their career choices effectively.
11:00 a.m.
Classroom A
What I Learned Last Summer (About Me, as a Lawyer)
Campus to Career Fellows
Campus to Career Fellows will lead a discussion about summer work in the legal profession--paid or volunteer--and the transformative effect of working in the profession.
11:00 a.m.
Great Hall
What Distinguishes a Stetson Lawyer? (And Why Does it Matter to Me?)
Ryan Hoyle interviews a panel of Stetson Lawyers, asking them pointed and poignant questions about the path they took and take every day.
Panelists for the podcast will be Jacina Parson, a board certified City, County, & Local Government Law attorney with Bryant Miller Olive, P.A.; Anisha Patel, Shareholder with Hill Ward Henderson and past president of the Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division; and, Zackary Zuroweste, Shareholder at PersanteZuroweste, and past President of the Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors
11:00 a.m.
Eleazer Courtroom
Permissionless Mentorship and Building Your Own Path
Law is a profession of passed down wisdom. Historically, this transfer of knowledge from one generation of lawyers to the next came in the form of apprenticeship. Today, it comes instead through mentorship. But finding strong mentors and getting helpful advice from them is a challenge for today's law students. In this session, Professor Jonah Perlin will draw on the experience of interviewing more than 130 interviews with practicing lawyers on his How I Lawyer Podcast to offer a framework for students to build their own legal path through new forms of "permission-less mentorship" that are available for free, asynchronously, at scale, and from a laptop or smartphone.
Following this session, Jonah will host a LIVE episode of his How I Lawyer Podcast featuring Howard Williams, a Stetson Law alumnus as his guest.
12:00 p.m.
Great Hall
Lunch
Keynote: Jonah Perlin
A LIVE episode of Jonah Perlin's How I Lawyer podcast, featuring Howard Williams, a Stetson Law alumnus, as his esteemed guest.
1:00 p.m.
Advocacy Center
How I Lawyer Rooms
Office of Career and Professionalism Development and Faculty
Staff, students, and faculty nominated Law Practice Mentors from among known alumni, adjunct professors, On Campus Recruiting lawyers and firms, Florida Government agencies and offices, nonprofits and pro bono and externship resources. We have invited Law Practice Mentors to register and participate in an exposition and networking event where students can explore day to day and strategic matters and issues that lawyers in practice confront and work with every day. Law Practice Mentors will be grouped into practice areas and students will be encouraged to seek them out and learn more about how they practice.
3:00 p.m.
Mann Lounge
Afternoon Tea Reception
Prize Drawings
Dean Barros
Afternoon tea--with actual tea choices (iced or hot) to follow along with the Britishness of the Inns. Guests, students, faculty, staff to be included.