Volunteer for YLS 

Stay involved with YLS by volunteering your time and expertise through a number of opportunities. 

Regional and International Events
The Law School holds approximately 50 alumni events each year.  Several of the events are held overseas.  The types of events vary from a reception at Fenway Park in Boston, to a judges’ panel in New York, to a get-together in Paris. 

If you are interested in hosting an event or in planning events with other alumni, please contact your regional YLS alumni association or the Alumni Affairs Office.

Reunions
The annual Alumni Weekends which take place in the fall in New Haven offer lots of volunteer opportunities for YLS graduates. Whether it is serving on a reunion gift committee, as a reunion chair, as an attendee, or as a panelist, graduates enjoy getting involved in the reunions which approximately 1,000 YLS alumni and guests attend. Contact the Alumni Affairs Office if you would like to get involved with your reunion.

YLS Career Connections (formerly the Alumni Mentoring Network)
From time to time, Yale Law School's students would like to invite graduates of the school to events organized by their organization. If you would like to be a resource for current Yale Law School student organizations, please join our online alumni mentor network, YLS Career Connections, at http://www.law.yale.edu/careerconnections.

Career connections is also an invaluable resource for students seeking career advice. Please join today and share information about your employment experiences.

Yale Law Report
Play a part in the Law Report, the alumni magazine of the Yale Law School, by submitting your news to your class secretary, sending your books for our Books in Print section and for our Alumni Reading Room book shelves, or participating in a discussion on the new interactive Yale Law Report site. For an exciting new opportunity, see our Book Tours: Alumni & Faculty section.

YLS Executive Committee
If you are interested in serving on the Executive Committee, contact the Alumni Affairs Office.

Volunteer for a Service Organization

YLS alumni often are active volunteers in the community. If you are involved in a volunteer service organization and think that YLS alumni may want to help out, please send us information about your organization and its needs to post on this volunteer bulletin board!

Bulletin Board

Big Brothers Big Sisters:  For information, go to http://www.bbbs.org/.  If you have questions about volunteering for the organization, you may contact Andrew Woolf '05, andrew.woolf@gmail.com.

ABA Mentor Program for Law Students and Recent Law School Graduates With Disabilities:  The American Bar Association, through its Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law (“CMPDL”), is sponsoring a Mentor Program for law students, prospective law students and recent law school graduates with disabilities in which Larry Berger (‘72L) and Steve Glickman (‘73L) have participated as mentors since 2005.  One of their mentees is now serving as a law clerk to a state appellate court judge, and another is working as a first year associate in a Washington, DC. law firm.  The range and variety of disabilities among students and lawyers who seek mentors through the ABA program is wide.  Examples include learning disabilities, physical disabilities including mobility, hearing and vision, and speech, psychiatric and neurological disabilities.  Mentors can offer advice, and sometimes just a sympathetic ear, on subjects ranging from course-selection, job interviews, the best way to discuss the disability and any needed accommodations with an employer or prospective employer, summer programs, bar examinations (where the disabled student may need to request accommodations from state bar examiners), networking and more. 

A mentor need not have a disability himself or herself, or have experience with disability law, in order to be helpful.  The personal rewards of serving as a mentor and getting to know the exceptional students and lawyers who have surmounted their disabilities are enormous, and greatly exceed the modest amount of time that is required.  The benefits to the profession and society from including students and attorneys with disabilities in every part of the profession are also great. 

Alumni/attorneys who would like to find out more about the Mentor Program can obtain a brochure at http://www.abanet.org/disability/docs/brochure.pdf, and can find an online application form at http://www.abanet.org/disability/subcommittee/mentor_form.shtml.  You also can contact Larry Berger at berger@ballardspahr.com with any questions.