Large Firms
Aug. 13, 2002
Weston Benshoof Hosts Students at Minority Job Fair
Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava MacCuish hosted the Dupont Legal Minority Job Fair at its Los Angeles office Aug. 3. The fair brought 50 law students from all over the country to interview with six West Coast firms.
Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava MacCuish hosted the Dupont Legal Minority Job Fair at its Los Angeles office Aug. 3. The fair brought 50 law students from all over the country to interview with six West Coast firms.
Dupont has held the minority job fair for nine years, but only in the last six did it come to the West Coast. Weston Benshoof has hosted all six of those fairs.
The other firms involved this year were Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt; Dillingham & Murphy; Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich; Lewis and Roca; and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey.
The students' resumes and job applications were circulated to the participating firms who chose candidates for full-time and summer positions.
"Everyone was very well qualified and well received," Christian Roux, Weston Benshoof's managing partner, says.
The students attended an interviewing and résumé workshop in the morning, conducted by Karyn Schlinkert of Kelly Law Registry, for some tips that they could use at the fair and also in the fall during on-campus interviews.
"We've got too many good choices," Roux says of the 10 students Weston Benshoof interviewed.
Students also had the opportunity to have individual résumé critiques with Kelly Law Registry, according to Nicole Rivas, a Weston Benshoof associate who coordinated the event.
But the highlight of the day was the guest speaker, according to Roux.
Maribeth Annaguey, a summer associate this year at Weston Benshoof who was hired through the fair last year, spoke to the students at lunch at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel.
Annaguey, who is Mexican and Filipino, spoke of the importance of being yourself.
"We may feel pressure to conform and to lay behind our cultural and religious background ... but when you have a firm committed to diversity you don't have to leave that person behind," Annaguey said.
Stefanie Knapp
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