Julie Anna Alvarez is
the new Director of Alumni and International Career Services at the Office of
Career Services and Professional Development at Columbia Law School. She has
been a law school career services professional for 11 years (having previously
worked at Fordham and Cardozo) providing counseling and strategy to students
and graduates at all stages in their careers. Her work in the academic setting
has included helping her constituencies with resumes, cover letters, job search
strategies, interviewing, networking and more. Throughout her career, she has
also often been involved in the hiring process of her employers, screening
resumes and interviewing candidates for open positions, so she has an insider
perspective. Julie Anna was elected to the Board of Directors of NALP (National
Association for Law Placement -- the industry organization for all major law
schools and legal employers) for the 2016-2018 term. Julie Anna received her BA
from Harvard University and her law degree from Harvard Law School. She began
her legal career at the firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore as a corporate
attorney, later transitioned to a boutique firm to practice Copyright/
Trademark/ Entertainment Law. Thereafter, she pursued various “alternative
legal career” opportunities including six years as the Assistant Director of
the Legal Referral Service at the NYC Bar Association. In 2000 she also became
a certified Feng Shui consultant and ran a full-time consultant practice from
2001 to 2006, a business which she now maintains on a part-time basis. She has
been a NYC Comadre for 7 years or more (but who’s counting?!).
