Your Credit Rating and Your JD: How Your Credit Record Can Affect Your Career Options

This video explores the real impact that your credit history can have on your admission to the Bar, maintaining your license to practice law, and your future employment opportunities. Guidance will be provided on ways to take better control of your financial health, and how to manage and improve your credit score.

Panelists: Maryland and Virginia Bar Directors of Character and Fitness; Mike Frisch, Georgetown Law's Ethics and Adjunct Professor (formerly of the DC Bar Counsel); and the Assistant Director from the of Attorney Recruitment and Management from the U.S. Department of Justice. (Approximate time 1 hr. 45 min.)

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A copy of this presentation is also available on reserve in the library.