OFFICE OF
CAREER
SERVICES
OFFICE OF
JUDICIAL
CLERKSHIPS
MORTIMER
CAPLIN
PUBLIC SERVICE
CENTER
EXTERNSHIPS
PRO BONO
PROGRAM
KEVIN DONOVAN
PATRICE HAYDEN
MARIT SPEKMAN
LAUREN K. VENTRE
RUTH PAYNE
ANNIE KIM
W. LAWTON TUFTS
AMANDA YALE
A. SPRIGHTLEY RYAN KIMBERLY EMERY
SENIOR ASSISTANT DEAN
FOR CAREER SERVICES
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF LAW
FIRM RECRUITING
DIRECTOR OF CAREER
SERVICES
DIRECTOR OF CAREER
SERVICES
DIRECTOR OF JUDICIAL
CLERKSHIPS
ASSISTANT DEAN FOR
PUBLIC SERVICE
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC
SERVICE
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF
LAW, GENERAL FACULTY
J.D., UNIVERSITY OF
PENNSYLVANIA
J.D., M.B.A., UNIVERSITY OF
VIRGINIA
J.D., B.A., UNIVERSITY OF
VIRGINIA
J.D., B.A., UNIVERSITY OF
VIRGINIA
J.D., UNIVERSITY OF
VIRGINIA
J.D., NORTHEASTERN
UNIVERSITY
DIRECTOR OF
EXTERNSHIPS
B.A., DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
B.A., STANFORD
UNIVERSITY
Lauren Ventre
connects students and
alumni with privatesector positions
within their areas of
interest and assists
them in formulating
application documents
and strategies. Prior
to joining the Career
Services team in 2014,
Ventre worked at
the Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation
in Washington, D.C.,
and, more recently,
in the undergraduate
University Career
Services office. In that
role, she managed
B.A., CLAREMONT
MCKENNA COLLEGE
DIRECTOR, MORTIMER
CAPLIN PUBLIC SERVICE
CENTER
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC
SERVICE AND ALUMNI
ADVISING
B.A., COLGATE UNIVERSITY
J.D., UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
Kevin Donovan
leads the Office of
Career Services and
counsels students and
alumni on general
career choices and on
pursuing positions
with law firms. Before
joining the school in
2009, Donovan was a
litigation partner in
the Philadelphia office
of Morgan Lewis &
Bockius, where his
practice focused on
complex tort litigation,
including class actions
and national serial
litigation. While at
Marit Spekman
counsels students and
With eight years of
alumni on a broad
large-firm practice
array of career choices
experience, Patrice
with a focus on law
Hayden assists students firm positions. She
who are considering
works with students
positions in law firms
to evaluate practice
and coordinates
areas, firms and legal
Virginia Law’s presence markets, and helps
in job fairs across the
students and alumni
country. Hayden also
develop strategies to
works with students
compete effectively
who are evaluating
for the positions they
different practice
target.
areas and comparing
Spekman previously
alternative jobs to
was an associate in
firm practice. She
the New York office
previously served as
of Willkie Farr &
an associate at Bryan
Gallagher, where she
Ruth Payne advises
students and alumni as
they navigate the application process for both
judicial internships and
judicial clerkships. This
includes counseling,
reviewing cover letters
and resumes, conducting mock interviews
and running workshops on the clerkship
process. Payne was an
articles editor on the
Virginia Law Review.
After law school, she
clerked for Judge J.
Harvie Wilkinson III
VIRGINIA’S career counselors
Morgan Lewis, he was
the firm’s pro bono
chair from 2003-08,
was heavily involved
in recruiting and
participated in running
three summer associate
programs. After law
school, Donovan
clerked for U.S. District
Judge Frank J. Battisti
in the Northern District
of Ohio. Following his
clerkship he joined
Morgan Lewis and
became a partner in
2000.
Cave in Washington,
D.C., where she
specialized in whitecollar, regulatory and
consumer protection
matters. During her
tenure there, she
spent five years on the
recruiting committee,
culminating in her
chairing the summer
program, and served as
co-chair of the office’s
Lawyers of Color
affinity group.
focused on private
equity/venture capital
transactions, mergers
and acquisitions, and
other corporate and
securities matters.
She also served as
a member of the
firm’s Professional
Personnel/
Legal Recruiting,
Professional
Development and
Marketing committees.
In law school at UVA,
she was a member of
the editorial board of
the Journal of Law
& Politics, First Year
Council and Virginia
Law Women.
the on-Grounds
on the 4th U.S. Circuit
interviewing program Court of Appeals and
and recruiter relations. completed a one-year
Ventre is a member
Bristow Fellowship
of the Virginia
with the U.S. Solicitor
State Bar and a 2012
General’s Office. From
graduate of the Law
2004-08, she was an
School, where she
honors attorney with
served on the editorial the Criminal Division
board of the Virginia
of the Department
Law Review and was
of Justice, where she
elected to the Order of worked in the Office of
the Coif.
International Affairs.
J.D., B.A., UNIVERSITY OF
VIRGINIA
M.F.A., CREATIVE WRITING,
WARREN WILSON COLLEGE
J.D., WILLIAM & MARY
MARSHALL-WYTHE
SCHOOL OF LAW
B.S., JAMES MADISON
UNIVERSITY
Amanda Yale
previously worked
at Legal Services
for Children in New
York City, where she
defended the rights
of indigent disabled
children in special
education and Social
Security disability
benefits proceedings.
After graduating from
law school, she worked
as a staff attorney at
the 2nd U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals. She
then clerked for Judge
I. Leo Glasser in the
U.S. District Court for
B.A., YALE UNIVERSITY
ASSISTANT DEAN FOR
PRO BONO AND PUBLIC
INTEREST
J.D., UNIVERSITY OF
VIRGINIA
B.A., CARLETON COLLEGE
Kimberly Emery has
been the Law School’s
assistant dean for
pro bono since 2004,
and was a founder
and director of the
Mortimer Caplin
Public Service Center.
Emery coordinates
and administers pro
bono programming for
law students, counsels
students and graduates
regarding pro bono
and public interest
opportunities, develops
and fund-raises for
new service projects,
and oversees the
Law School’s
have extensive experience in private practice,
Pro Bono
in public interest lawyering and as clerks. Challenge.
Under Emery’s
direction, the Pro Bono
practiced commercial
Lawyers, and
the Eastern District of seminar to students
New York.
in the UVA Law in DC Program in a typical
and school litigation at worked as a summer
year coordinates
the McLean office of
intern at both the
externship program
that helps participants pro bono projects
Hunton & Williams and Charlottesville and
with more than 100
later worked at a small Fredericksburg public
make connections
defender’s offices. After
employers nationwide,
between legal theory
firm in Alexandria.
from work with fullgraduation, he litigated
and practice. Ryan
Starting in 2002, Kim
criminal and family law
previously served
time public interest
served as in-house
cases at a small firm in
as inspector general
lawyers to pro bono
counsel for Virginia
local governments for
western Virginia. He
of the Smithsonian
efforts undertaken by
private practitioners.
nine years, working
also was a guardian ad
Institution, worked
litem for children.
for the Environmental Emery was a board
on everything from
Crimes Section of
member for the Legal
civil rights and
Tufts serves on the
employment law
board of directors for
the U.S. Department
Aid Justice Center for
cases to representing
the OAR-Jefferson
of Justice as a trial
more than 15 years and
schools, police and
Area Community
attorney, and served
was recognized in 2000
as a special assistant
as the organization’s
other local government Corrections program
departments. She won and is a member of
U.S. attorney with the
Volunteer of the Year.
U.S. Attorney’s Office
her first case before the the Thomas Jefferson
4th U.S. Circuit Court
Inn of Court and
for the District of
of Appeals in 2012, her the Charlottesville
Columbia.
Albemarle Bar
final case arguing on
Association.
behalf of Albemarle
County.
W. Lawton Tufts
Annie Kim leads the
previously worked
as an assistant
Mortimer Caplin
Public Service Center,
public defender for
through which she
the CharlottesvilleAlbemarle Public
counsels students
seeking public-interest Defender’s Office,
where he represented
jobs and fellowships,
hundreds of indigent
invites speakers to
discuss careers in
defendants in
misdemeanor and
public service and
coordinates numerous felony trials.
other activities that
As a law student,
Tufts served on the
support public service
at the Law School. After boards of the Public
Service Fund and
graduating from the
Law School in 1999, she Lawyers Helping
Sprightley Ryan
directs the externships
program at Virginia
Law. Externships allow
students to work fulltime or part-time doing
legal work for public
service employers
while earning academic
credit. As director,
Ryan counsels students
who are in the program
or who are considering
an externship, and
advises them on
selecting an employer.
Ryan also teaches a