Seeking work experience as a pre-penultimate year student
As a pre-penultimate year student, you are generally not eligible for most internship, vacationer and clerkship programs. However, as explained in What makes a competitive applicant for clerkship, vacationer, internship or graduate positions? , this fact does not mean that you need to wait (or should be waiting) until your penultimate year to obtain work experience (whether it is legal or non-legal experience). This post focuses on examples of "legal experience" and tangential experience which pre-penultimate year law students could be considering. However: remember that "legal experience" is not the only form of work experience valued by law firms and other legal employers. For example, customer service experience is valuable to employers as such experience tends to demonstrate the proven ability to work with clients and customers. The importance of "other" experience is perhaps evidenced by the fact that there will be always some seasonal clerks who,...