Mary Karen Rogers
Executive Director
Mary Karen has established her career in legal higher education over the past three decades, starting in the Admissions/Financial Aid Office, Registrar’s Office and recently earning the leadership role in the Career Development Office at Suffolk University Law School.
Mary Karen was appointed to the position of Executive Director in the Career Development Office in 2007. She served as the Associate Director of the Career Development Office at Suffolk University Law School from 1986-2007, as well as the Budget and Program Coordinator for the Rappaport Honors Program in Law and Public Service from 1999-2002. She has been meeting, counseling and following the careers of innumerable Suffolk students and alumni in the Career Development Office over the past twenty years.
Her educational background includes a Masters in Counseling and Human Resource Development, which she received in 1992. Ms. Rogers is a member of The Association for Legal Career Professionals, American Counseling Association, Massachusetts Law School Consortium, the Boston Lawyers Group and The Northeast Law Consortium. Ms. Rogers served as co-director of the Northeast Law Consortium from 1988-2001. Mary Karen has previously participated in career related panels for the Boston Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, and the Massachusetts Legal Recruitment Association.
Dorothy Commons
Assistant Director for Programs
Dorothy received her B.A. in education from the University of Massachusetts
Amherst and her M.S. in counseling psychology from Northeastern
University. She was hired as Assistant Director of Career Services
at New England School of Law in August 1994 and was promoted to
Director in 1996. She joined Suffolk University Law School in 1998
as a career counselor and became Assistant Director for Programs
in 2000. She is a member of the National Association for Law Placement
and the Massachusetts Law School Consortium. She currently serves
on the steering committee of the Massachusetts Legal Recruitment
Association (MALRA). Dorothy is a qualified administrator and interpreter
of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Maureen Ricciuti
Career Counselor
Maureen holds a B.A. in social sciences/psychology from Boston
College and an M.A. in education and human development from George
Washington University. She started in law school career services
in 1989 at the National Law Center at George Washington University.
In 1991 she became the Assistant Director of Career Development
at New England School of Law. She joined the staff at Suffolk University
Law School in 1994, where she worked as an assistant director until
May 2001. Maureen is a member of Chi Sigma Iota, Counseling Academic
and Professional Honor Society International. She is a member of
the American Counseling Association, the National Board for Certified
Counselors, and the National Association for Law Placement, for
which she was the northeast regional coordinator for the Annual
National Education Conference in 1995. Currently a part-time career
counselor, Maureen is also qualified to administer and interpret
the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.
Margaret Talmers
Judicial Clerkship Advisor
Margaret is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she received her A.B. in Linguistics, and Northeastern University School of Law. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable A. David Mazzone of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts for several years. Her former private practice focused on civil litigation and included special education advocacy. During the 2006-2007 academic year, Margaret taught legal research and writing as an adjunct professor at Northeastern University School of Law, and served as a Co-op Advisor in their Office of Cooperative Legal Education. She is admitted to the Massachusetts and the United States District Court Bars. Prior to attending law school, Margaret worked as a canvasser for a state-wide citizen action organization, a research assistant at Harvard University and a paralegal and later a database administrator at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. She joined the Career Development Office in January 2008.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Armour Director of Employer Relations
Betsy is a graduate of Smith College with a B.A. in Italian Language and Literature. She has an extraordinary background and more than 25 years of experience in law school career services and the employment of law school graduates in private law firms. Betsy served as Director of Career Development at Boston University School of Law from 1992-2004. She is also a former Director of Legal Recruiting at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge (2006-2008), and held similar positions at Foley Hoag LLP, Goldstein & Manello, and Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Ferdon (NY).
Betsy is a former President of the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), and twice served on NALP’s Board of Directors. She has also served on the Executive Board of the Student Services Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and is a frequent speaker at NALP, AALS, and ABA conferences. She is a past President of the Massachusetts Legal Recruitment Association (MALRA) and an active member of the Boston Lawyers Group. Betsy joined the Suffolk Law CDO team in the Fall of 2008.
Michelle Dobbins
Associate Director for Recruitment and Marketing
Michelle has a B.S. in finance, summa cum laude, from the University
of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an MBA from Suffolk University.
Michelle has worked in the Career Development Office at Suffolk
University Law School since 1988 and has held various positions
including career development assistant, recruitment coordinator,
recruitment manager, and assistant director. She was promoted to Associate Director
for Recruitment and Marketing in the summer of 2006. Michelle is
an active member of the Massachusetts Legal Recruitment Association,
where she currently serves as treasurer; the Massachusetts Law
School Consortium, where she also currently serves as treasurer;
and the National Association for Law Placement.
Victoria Finn
Office Coordinator Vikki has a B.S. in Communications, summa cum laude, from Boston University. She became the Office Coordinator for the Career Development Office in March 2009. She recently applied to the MBA program at Suffolk University and hopes to pursue a graduate degree specialized in Nonprofit Business Management.
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