This story is part of a series of profiles featuring some of this year’s outstanding law school graduates from UC Law San Francisco.
When he graduated from UC Law San Francisco in May, Long Truong ’23 had already secured a job at one of the world’s top law firms, an accomplishment he attributes to guidance from his mentors.
“Where I stand today stems from the people who believed in me enough to take me under their wing,” Truong said. “Their willingness to share what they did right and what they wish they had done provided me with timely wisdom to make key decisions during law school.”
Before law school, Truong spent a year studying Mandarin and interning at a global law firm in Shanghai. While there, he worked under a partner mentor who encouraged him to build his network early in law school.
Heeding that advice, Truong spent his 1L year meeting up to five attorneys per week for virtual coffee chats, resulting in over 100 meetings in a year. He said the connections he made helped him understand the legal “lay of the land.” The payoff was a 1L summer internship at a well-regarded law firm in the Silicon Valley.
“With COVID generating so much uncertainty, it felt surreal to receive an offer to work with startups and Fortune 500 companies in the Silicon Valley,” he said.
Truong soon set his sights on the top-rated multinational law firm Kirkland & Ellis, where he interned his 2L summer and will return as an associate in September, “After being exposed to the intellectual...
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