Instructions for Reciprocity at Other Schools

UC Hastings’ website, under Careers, describes reciprocity for both students seeking to use our career office and to our students seeking to use another office. This handout details how UC Hastings students can apply to use another school’s career office to assist with a job search.

• All law schools CLOSE their career services to the students or grads of other schools during the fall. UC Hastings closes its reciprocity use from August 15 through November 1. Some schools close into December. Most schools allow reciprocal use between November or December and early August. Figure out a school’s CLOSED period from that school’s website or by calling its career office.
• The process to use another school’s career services center is streamlined for those schools with Open Reciprocity with UC Hastings. Those schools are Santa Clara, California Western, University of Michigan, McGeorge, Fordham (NY), and all UC Law Schools, including U.C. Berkeley Cal Career Center. If you wish to use the career services resources at these schools you may go to the school (during the OPEN reciprocity period; not during the CLOSED period) and present proof of your UC Hastings attendance (e.g., an alumni card or student I.D.).
• For those schools not on our Open Reciprocity list, first verify that the school grants reciprocity. To do that, go to the NALP page which lists all the schools who grant reciprocity: http://www.nalp.org/content/index.php?pid=94
• If the school does grant reciprocity, go to the school’s website and verify the dates that they allow reciprocal use. You should apply for reciprocal use during the open period. If you apply while reciprocity is closed, it will be a waste of time as you will be denied.
• To apply, email our Reciprocity Coordinator – reciprocity@uchastings.edu –the following information:
   

- Name of School at which you seek reciprocity
- Name of the Reciprocity Coordinator at that school (found either from the NALP page or that the career services page of that school’s website)
- The snail mail address for the Reciprocity Coordinator at the school;
- The email address for the Reciprocity Coordinator at the school
- Your name
- Your snail mail address
- Your email address
- Your year of UC Hastings graduation

• After you submit to our coordinator ALL this information, our coordinator will send a formal reciprocity request to the school you seek, copying you. Note that we request you limit your reciprocity requests to no more than 3 schools. Some states (including New York) will limit your use of their resources to a single school. 
• You must await a response granting you reciprocity from the school. Once you get it, bring that and your ID to your first visit.  Once you are granted reciprocity access, usually the schools allow approximately 3 visits within a 3-month period. The 3 month period begins on the date of your first visit. But again, check that school’s website to confirm these details.