Over the past few years, much has changed in the legal world. Most significantly, the legal job market has contracted due to financial difficulties that have spread throughout the world. These changes have led many law students to ask "what can I do to stand out" when I enter the workforce? For many law students, joining the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) of the American Bar Associ
ation (ABA) has given them the tools and experience needed to stand out. TIPS, with 30,000-members and over 30 committees, provides countless opportunities for law students to interact with a TIPS community that includes the legal profession's most accomplished attorneys. Additionally, TIPS has instituted a number of programs focused on the development of law students. These programs include: (1) Leadership opportunities to students, including a student vice-chair position on every substantive committee; (2) Scholarships to help fund law students? attendance at TIPS meetings; (3) A mentoring program that connects TIPS student leaders with attorneys who practice law in the student's area of interest; (4) The TIPSTER newsletter with articles targeting issues of interest to law students, and (5) Several student writing competitions, including the annual TIPS-wide Law Student Writing Competition that awards cash to the top two papers and paid air and hotel accommodations to the ABA Annual Meeting to the first place winner
Finally, membership in the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section is FREE to law students who are members of the ABA. We look forward to having you as a member! Best Regards,
Joan Schaffner
Christopher Shelton
