Reciprocity

The Office of Career & Professional Development of Hastings College of the Law is located in the heart of a large metropolitan area with a highly competitive legal market. As such it has become a target for many law school graduates from other cities/states, many of whom want to use the resources of Hastings' Office of Career & Professional Development in their job searches. Our reciprocity policy is designed to fulfill our primary responsibility to serve UC Hastings College of the Law graduates, while still offering employment information to job candidates from other law schools. Hastings' Office of Career & Professional Development will provide reasonable access to resources for alumni of law schools outside of the San Francisco Bay Area per the following policy:

1. Reciprocity is available only to graduates of those ABA-accredited law schools that allow Hastings alumni to use their facilities.
   
   
2. Hastings maintains Open Reciprocity with Santa Clara, California Western, University of Michigan, McGeorge, Fordham in NY, and all U.C. Law Schools, including U.C. Berkeley Cal Career Center. Graduates and students from these schools may visit our Office of Career & Professional Development without a letter and use Hastings' resources as described in item 5 by presenting proof of attendance (e.g., an alumni card or student ID), and vice versa.
   
   
3. Requests for reciprocity must be made in writing via mail, fax or email by a career services official from the graduate's home law school and should indicate the graduate's name, address and year of graduation. Approval for reciprocity must be granted from Hastings Office of Career & Professional Development; no drop-in visits. Requests should be addressed to:
   
   Reciprocity Coordinator
   Office of Career & Professional Development
   U.C. Hastings College of the Law
   200 McAllister Street, Room 230
   San Francisco, CA 94102
   email: reciprocity@uchastings.edu
   
   
4. If reciprocity is granted, our policy allows a visitor 3 visits within a 3-month period PER YEAR, beginning with the date of first visit. Upon each visit, the graduate must present the letter granting reciprocity from Hastings (see Item 3) along with a form of photo identification (e.g., driver's license).
   
   
5. Reciprocity services include access to the graduate job postings and the Office of Career & Professional Development resource library only. We allow reciprocal viewing of our online job listings only through a computer located in our office. We are not able to provide individual passwords to our online job database. Counseling, student jobs, and participation in on-campus interviews are not included.
   
   
6. RECIPROCITY IS CLOSED from August 15 through November 1 each year.