Lisa Abrams is a graduate of University of Illinois College, practiced as an insurance defense attorney in Chicago, and led the career services office of Chicago-Kent College of Law as the Assistant Dean.  Lisa has written extensively about career planning and development.  Her book, The Official Guide to Legal Specialties: An Insider’s Guide to Every Major Practice Area, is on the bookshelf of every law school career services office in the country. 

In her research for the legal specialties book, Lisa interviewed more than 120 attorneys in 30 different practice areas, asking them what they liked about their jobs and what advice they had to offer law students.  She currently heads the Career Services office at the University of Chicago School of Law and works as a consultant, providing career planning advice to law students and career transition advice to lawyers. 

You may be one of the fortunate folks who knows exactly what kind of law you want to practice.  Or you may be one of the many who just knows they want to be a lawyer and is hoping that law school will point the way for them.  What could be the ideal legal job for me? How do I know what I really want? What work environments would make me most happy?  Discover your passion in the legal field.

Ms. Abrams comes to us from Chicago, Illinois.