Brand New BYU Law Alumni Directory! Engage with the Community
BYU Law Alumni are positioned to help not only the Law School and the current students, but also to support and network with each other. In conjunction with the BYU Law Alumni Chapter, the Law School just rolled out a new Alumni Directory. This online directory will:
- Help Alumni locate fellow alums in their geographic area.
- Help Alumni engage with their classmates and work with current class leadership.
- Help Alumni find and reach out to fellow alums with specialized knowledge and experience.
- Help Alumni negotiate mid-career moves.
- Help Alumni find and communicate with fellow alums with whom they share particular affinity, such as Women in the Law, other Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), additional LLM Masters of Law alums, fellow retired alums, etc.
The online Alumni Directory will substantially change how most of us navigate our engagement with fellow alumni and the Law School. You, me, and all of us as BYU Law Alumni can work to make sure the online directory is posed to reach its full potential, by doing two simple things:
- Claim your Alumni Account by clicking the link in the email you received inviting you to join Hivebrite.
- Update your profile to reflect your current information (and return regularly to update your profile!). YOU decide what information to include and what others can see.
While it’s a rare occurrence for me to give someone directions these days, when I do my kids think it’s funny. I’m all about landmarks: ‘Turn at the blue barn’, ‘It’s two streets past the water tower’, ‘Three more blocks on the left’, etc. Gone are the days of relying on paper maps, printed directions, or routes provided by locals. Today, we are blessed with smart devices that provide real-time directions guided by global positioning systems (GPS).
In some ways, BYU Law Alumni for the past 50 years have been successfully networking and engaging in a manner analogous to the tried-and-true methods of paper maps, physical landmarks, and directions from locals. Those methods work, but technology can provide a better way.
As we all take simple steps to update accurate information the efficacy of the online directory will grow, just like GPS positioning gets better the more satellites are available. If you need help updating your information or have questions about the new Alumni Directory, please email ([email protected]) or call (801-422-3671) Erin Fale, BYU Law’s Director of External Relations.
This is an exciting and transformative time for BYU Law Alumni. As BYU Law Students continue to graduate, the online Alumni Directory provides them (and all of us) a marvelous technological tool that helps readily facilitate alumni networking and bolsters continued alumni engagement with the Law School.
- Jon Madsen ('04), BYU Law Alumni Board President
Please note that this directory is separate from the J. Reuben Clark Law Society (JRCLS) directory. This new directory is exclusively for BYU Law Alumni to connect with each other and to learn about alumni-specific events, news, and opportunities.