One-On-One Career Mentoring for Law Students and Lawyers
Our Mission
Older Wiser Lawyer Mentors is a nonprofit network of volunteer mentors dedicated to providing free one-on-one mentoring to law students and lawyers as they navigate their legal careers.
Our Focus
Older Wiser Lawyer Mentors is focused on helping individuals who are the first in their families to become lawyers. First-generation professionals, especially those from diverse backgrounds, often lack the family connections and other resources that can provide a “head start” for their peers.
OWL Mentors hopes to narrow that gap and promote a more equitable and diverse legal profession by connecting first-generation law students and lawyers with experienced attorneys for free, one-on-one career mentoring.
Our Mentors
A key feature of OWL Mentors is that our volunteer mentors are no longer actively practicing law in traditional settings such as a law firm, government, or in-house. They all have legal experience but have since retired or continued onto other career paths, and can provide valuable career insights and more candid advice to new and aspiring attorneys.
Our Experience
Our network includes volunteer mentors who were partners and associates at AM Law 100 law firms in cities throughout the country. Their legal experience covers a broad range of practice areas, including litigation, transactional, and counseling at law firms and beyond.
Our mentors have previously served in roles such as:
Law Firm Office Managing Partner
Law Firm Practice Group Leader
General Counsel of a federal agency
Trial Attorney at the U.S. Dept. of Justice
Law Clerk to a federal judge
Founder of their own law firm
Our mentors represent a wide range of career paths, including individuals who currently work as:
Mediator
Law Professor
Law Firm Consultant and Attorney Coach
Chief Development Officer for a nonprofit
Small Business Owner
Published Novelist