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William & Mary Reciprocity Policy

William & Mary Law School’s Office of Career Services (OCS) makes available reciprocal services to students and graduates of other ABA-accredited law schools outside the Commonwealth of Virginia on the following basis: 

  1. Services are available only to individuals whose schools permit William & Mary Law students and graduates to use their services and facilities in a substantially similar manner. 
  2. If any individual’s law school imposes “blackout periods” during which it will not grant reciprocity and/or restricts the type of services available, we will impose a comparable blackout period and/or restriction on the individual’s use of our services. Notwithstanding the blackout period(s) observed by the requesting individual’s law school, at a minimum, our office will observe blackout periods annually between February 1st and April 15th and between June 1st and August 30th.   
  3. Reciprocity requests must be submitted to OCS in writing (lawocs@wm.edu) at least two weeks in advance by a career services official of the requesting individual’s law school. Telephone requests are not accepted. The request must include the individual’s mailing and email addresses. Reciprocity will be granted for a 3-month period, subject to the blackout periods referenced above.  
  4. William & Mary does not permit simultaneous reciprocity with Virginia’s other ABA-accredited law schools. Reciprocity requests must be limited to only one of the Virginia-based accredited law schools for the length of the relevant reciprocity period.  
  5. Individuals granted reciprocity will receive online access to Job Postings on the OCS Symplicity website. Individuals granted reciprocity will not be permitted to participate in any of William & Mary’s on-campus, off-campus, or virtual interview programs.  
  6. When responding to any job posting accessed from William & Mary Law School, individuals granted reciprocity must state in a cover letter to the employer that the job listing was obtained through a reciprocal agreement between the individual’s law school and William & Mary Law School. 
  7. Decisions about reciprocity are made on a case-by-case basis and lie within the sole discretion of the OCS staff. OCS reserves the right to deny privileges to any individual who misuses its facilities or services, or to students and graduates of any law school that surpasses a reasonable number of reciprocity requests within an academic year.