Get to Know Your Board: Dawn Gile, Membership Director
Up next in our “Get to Know Your Board” series is Dawn Gile, Membership Director.
Adrianne Blake Awarded MSJDN Volunteer Service Award
By Gina Hannah “Blessed are the flexible for they shall never be bent out of shape” is the mantra of MSJDN’s 2018 Making the Right Moves Volunteer Service Awardee, Adrianne Blake. Adrianne is an activist and avid volunteer for...
Get to Know Your Board: Karen Scanlan, President-Elect
Up next in our “Get to Know Your MSJDN Board” series is Karen Scanlan, MSJDN President-Elect:
Get to Know Your Board: Katherine Lee Goyette, President
We are launching a “Get to Know Your MSJDN Board” series where each week we will feature one of MJSDN’s board members so you can get to know us better! To kick it off is MSJDN President Katherine Lee...
Where to Take the Bar Exam: A Guide
by Jasmine Green McNamara Choosing where to take the bar exam is the easiest part of becoming a lawyer for most law graduates. For military spouse lawyers, it’s one of the most difficult and frequent issues we face in...
Amplify Seattle – Military Spouse Career Intensive.
by Tamar Yellin I had the privilege of attending the latest AMPLIFY Military Spouse Career Intensive this March in Seattle, along with 2 other MSJDN members. The program was put on by the In Gear Career and Hiring our...
Embracing the Busy-ness
By Johanna Thibault As attorneys, and especially as military spouses, we are particularly prone to creating a life full of “busy-ness”. It seems we are in a perpetual mode of fighting for our career and/or defining our self worth....
How I am staying hopeful about my job hunt after our second PCS this year
by Maria Campbell I had hoped by the time I started writing this post on finding a job, I would have already secured a permanent attorney position—that way I could write this post with more authority. But, as fate...
Finding a Job After You PCS: Networking Strategies
by Camille Edwards Bennehoff So your spouse just got orders, and you are going to make a permanent change of station (PCS) to a new state or country. How do you find a job? Networking may be your key...
North Dakota Enacts Military Spouse Attorney Rule
The North Dakota Supreme Court adopted Rule 3.3, effective October 1, 2016, granting temporary licensure to practice law to military spouse attorneys stationed in North Dakota pursuant to Permanent Change of Station (PCS) orders. The rule offers military spouse...