Bidding for the 2015 Loyola Patent Law Interview Program (PLIP) begins on Tuesday, April 14. Registered students will receive an email from Loyola on Monday, April 13 with information regarding accessing the program’s Symplicity system and bidding on employers.
To help you take full advantage of this program, Loyola is offering a pair of briefings on how to maximize students’ opportunities at PLIP. The first one is called Your Resume, Research and Bidding: Your First keys to Success at Loyola Chicago’s PLIP, and will be live on the Web on Wednesday, April 15th, at 1 pm EST. (An archived version of the presentation should be available a week or two after.)
The topics discussed in this briefing will include:
- How to write a resume targeted to employers looking for patent attorneys (at PLIP and elsewhere!)
- How to research employers using the information on Symplicity
- What additional research you should do on the employers’ websites
- How the bidding process on Loyola PLIP’s Symplicity works
- How to best use your 32 bids to generate the most interviews
- How to identify and apply to IP firms who do not participate in the PLIP program.
The presenters for this briefing:
- Alissa Holterman, Assistant Director of Career Services at Loyola University Chicago School of Law (the school that hosts PLIP), who has been a key point person for the program for 9 years and knows everything there is to know about the Program
- Katharine Patterson, of Patterson Davis Consulting, who works exclusively with Intellectual Property and Patent practices on issues of attorney recruitment, hiring policy and retention. As PLI’s guest, she has attended PLIP for the past 8 years to brief students on what’s going on in the current job market, review individual resumes, and offer one-on-one counseling. This Web Briefing is in part inspired by the fact that so many participants at past PLIPs said to us “I wish I’d known this BEFORE I got to PLIP.”
- Mark Dighton, the Practising Law Institute’s (PLI) Director of Law School Relations and Administrative Director of their Patent Bar Review, has participated in PLIP for more than 12 years. He’s PLI’s resident expert on the Patent Bar Exam, and has picked up a lot about the patent law job market along the way.
Click here to sign up for the live briefing. You will need to create an account on PLI’s system in order to listen, if you don’t already have one.
If you have any questions about the briefing, please direct them to Mark Dighton at mdighton@pli.edu.