Student Spotlight: Katie Fuehrmeyer '08
While interviewing for summer internships last year, third-year law student Katie Fuehrmeyer found herself at the intersection of Who You Know and What You Know, and likes where it led. “I spent the summer after my first year working for Professor [Mary Ellen] O’Connell, and the next year I received a call-back from a prospective employer because he knew Professor O’Connell and thought highly of her work,” says Katie.
Katie attended Notre Dame as an undergrad and went to work as a paralegal at a large law firm after earning her degree—she was a political science and Spanish double major. “Because I had a few years to think about it before entering law school, I had a fairly good idea about which area of the law I wanted to focus on,” says Katie, who will specialize in tax at Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago upon finishing the bar exam this summer.
Right now, Katie is concentrating on closing out her year as an executive editor of the Journal of College and University Law and on publishing a directed reading paper on foreign investing by nonprofits. “Professor [Lloyd] Mayer has helped me immensely with regard to reviewing my paper and helping me prepare it for publication. He is also very good about helping me think about what I want to do down the road and plan how to get there.”
If the past three years are any indication, that road leads straight to success.
