Big Law: Application Timeline 101

Our Private Interest Chairs, Andrea Arcia and Ximena Cesa, put together a fantastic event to shed light on the accelerated recruiting process across big law firms. Ximena moderated a panel with law students who have landed jobs in major markets including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego. The students offered candid advice on their paths to receiving offers, explaining how their approaches differed by market and what they believe first-year students should do to be prepared this recruiting season.

Native Land Acknowledgement


We take a moment to recognize that Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin) (Hoo-Choon), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo (Cho-Chen-yo) speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma (Muh-wek-muh) Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band.

We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has benefited, and continues to benefit, from the use and occupation of this land since the institution's founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university's relationship to Native peoples. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold the University of California, Berkeley more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.