{"id":3721,"date":"2012-05-24T16:54:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2012-05-24T18:09:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T21:09:08","slug":"pli-offering-free-program-how-to-succeed-as-a-summer-associate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=3721","title":{"rendered":"PLI Offering Free Program: \u201cHow to Succeed as a Summer Associate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PLI is in the process of scheduling their very popular, free program \u201c<strong>How to Succeed as a Summer Associate\u201d<\/strong> again.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Why You Should Participate<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A summer associate position is really a twelve-week interview. Simply avoiding career-limiting behavior is not enough; you need to successfully navigate the dilemmas and challenges you\u2019ll face during the summer. PLI experts will help you figure out how to turn this opportunity into a permanent position at the firm. If you haven\u2019t yet secured a summer position and want to be ready to put yourself out there next year, this program will provide an excellent opportunity to gain valuable insight into the summer associate process. At this<em> free<\/em> program you\u2019ll get practical advice from law firm partners who\u2019ve not only been through summer associate programs themselves but who are now involved in supervising the summer associates at their respective firms.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What You Will Learn<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Workload and time management\u00a0expectations<\/li>\n<li>Getting feedback and dealing\u00a0with criticism<\/li>\n<li>Making the most of your\u00a0mentor<\/li>\n<li>How to take advantage of pro\u00a0bono and training opportunities<\/li>\n<li>Social expectations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The date and time is TBA for this program; however, you may watch the free archive of the same program from last year by <a title=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pli.edu\/Content\/OnDemand\/How_to_Succeed_As_A_Summer_Associate_2011\/_\/N-4nZ1z13xwg?fromsearch=false&amp;ID=97965\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLI is in the process of scheduling their very popular, free program \u201cHow to Succeed as a Summer Associate\u201d again. Why You Should Participate: A summer associate position is really a twelve-week interview. Simply avoiding career-limiting behavior is not enough; you need to successfully navigate the dilemmas and challenges you\u2019ll face during the summer. PLI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,17,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1l-information","category-2l-information","category-general-announcements","category-resources","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}