UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW — For nearly 30 years, over 2800 students have been matched with practicing attorneys—Iowa Law alumni and friends—across the globe for the Partner for a Day program. The program serves as an opportunity for students to personally learn from an attorney and gain a feel of what it is like to be in practice. Based on a survey of each student’s interests, the Career Services Office matches students with a practicing attorney who fits in with those preferences and has agreed to participate in the program. From there, students are given the chance to explore and ask questions about various aspects of the practice of law in diverse settings, as well as enabled to gather information not always readily available in law school. Iowa Law alum, Thomas Cunningham (84JD), stated that, “Generally, during the semester break, a first year is paired with a law firm partner/Iowa law school alum for a day and they shadow that lawyer to get the experience of seeing what practicing lawyers do, what the practice of law looks like from the inside, and how law firms function.” Cunningham was one of the alums that decided to participate in the program and was paired with Eric Fischer (16JD) over the semester break in January 2014. He arranged for Fischer to not only shadow him, but to also meet with several of his partners who work in all kinds of areas in law.