Law students from FIU, UF, UM, and Stetson attended.
Sponsored by the Kozyak Minority Mentoring Foundation, the conversation focused on how to secure mentors, clerkships, scholarships, and fellowships.
The career-enhancing discussion also suggested classes to take and activities to participate in during law school.
The primary goal of the Kozyak Minority Mentoring Foundation is to build an effective pathway to diversity in the legal profession by providing opportunities and support to minority law students.
Along with Professor Smith, participants in the conversation included Miami attorneys Juan C. Enjamio, labor and employment partner with Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Detra Shaw-Wilder, partner with Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, and John W. Kozyak, founder and now of counsel to the firm.
A trailblazing civil rights pioneer and trial lawyer, Professor Smith is founding director of the FIU Law Trial Advocacy Program. He teaches Trial Advocacy and Advanced Trial Advocacy.
Reach Professor Smith at 305-348-8095 and htsmith@fiu.edu. To learn more the Trial Advocacy Program at FIU Law, visit law.fiu.edu/trialad.