Career Services Staff
Brian Lewis
Assistant Dean for Career Services
(919) 962-1023
brian-lewis@unc.edu
Brian Lewis is Assistant Dean for Career Services. His extensive professional experience includes positions in career services at the University of Iowa College of Law in Iowa City, the University of Florida College of Law in Gainesville, and, most recently, William & Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, Virginia. A long-time member of the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Brian has served on the NALP Board of Directors, and has chaired or served on NALP's Nominating Committee, Judicial Clerkship Working Group, Bylaws Committee, and Recruitment Practices Committee, among others. He has been a presenter at national and regional conferences, and contributed a chapter to Perspectives on Career Services, published by NALP in 2004. He has run numerous off-campus job fairs for law students in Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Boston, New York, and Washington, DC. Brian has a BGS and an MA in Counselor Education from the University of Iowa.
Maria Mangano
Director of Career Services
(919) 843-5658
mangano@email.unc.edu
Maria came to Carolina's Career Service Office in January 2005. She counsels students and alumni on all aspects of job searching and career development. She is especially interested in working with students who plan to work in small and medium sized firms in North Carolina, and students and alumni thinking about alternative careers.
Maria is a Carolina Law alum, and has worked in the Triangle area since graduating in 1982. She is a past president of the NC Association of Women Attorneys and has also worked at the Office of Career Services at Duke Law School and taught Legal Writing there. She is currently on the Board of Directors of NC LEAF, on the Board of the NC Gay Advocacy Legal Alliance (formerly known as NC Gay and Lesbian Attorneys), and is a member of the NC Bar Association's Minorities in the Profession Committee. Maria has a BA from the University of Virginia and an MA from Duke, both in English literature. She and her husband, Durham attorney Dan Read, have two children, both undergraduates at UNC.
Holly Bryan
Career Counselor
(919) 843-9918
hmbryan@unc.edu
Holly, a 2001 graduate of UNC Law, started with Career Services in December of 2006. She counsels students and alumni on all aspects of job searching and career development, with a particular interest in students examining public interest and alternative careers. Holly also focuses on issues that affect women in the legal world, both as law students/attorneys and as clients.
Holly comes to us from the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, where she was Legal Affairs Counsel since 2003, and also served as Website/Membership Coordinator. While a law student at Carolina, Holly was an RA for two years to Professor Marion Crain and did extensive volunteer work (she was UNC Law's Pro Bono Student of the Year in 2001). She is currently President-Elect of the NC Association of Women Attorneys for the 2007-08 year. In addition to her legal, organizational and personal skills, she has developed an unusually large network of lawyer contacts that will be very helpful to our students interested in smaller firms within NC. Holly is a 1997 graduate of Duke University.
Lynn Boone
Career Counselor
(919) 843-7560
lhboone@email.unc.edu
Lynn started with Career Services in November of 2006. She counsels students and alumni on all aspects of job searching and career development, with a particular interest in issues of diversity, positions as in-house counsel, and intellectual property law.
Lynn recently relocated to North Carolina after an accomplished career as an in-house attorney at Sears, Roebuck, specializing in intellectual property. She also did a stint at the EPA in Washington and clerked on the Illinois Appellate Court. Lynn is a graduate of Oberlin College and Georgetown School of Law. She has extensive mentoring experience with junior lawyers and has shown a special commitment to minority lawyers, through both formal bar committees and informal mechanisms.
Kim Silver
Career Counselor
(919) 843-8848
ksilver@unc.edu
Kim joined the Career Services Office staff in August 2006 as a part-time career counselor. She counsels students and alumni in all aspects of career development, and also focuses on federal and state government opportunities and fellowships.
Kim graduated from the law school in 1999 and spent four years as an associate at Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman in Raleigh. After moving to Virginia Beach, she did work with the Athletic Department and the University Counsel's office at Old Dominion University in Norfolk. She and her husband and two sons recently returned to Chapel Hill. Kim is a 1993 graduate of Duke University.
Sylvia Novinsky
Assistant Dean for Public Service Programs
(919) 962-7813
snovinsk@email.unc.edu
Sylvia Novinsky is the Assistant Dean for Public Service Programs. She joined the School of Law in 1996, serving as the Associate Director for Public Interest Law in Career Services, then as the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and the Associate Dean for Student Affairs. She coordinates programming and services for students and alumni interested in pursuing careers in public interest law, as well as opportunities for pro bono service at the School of Law. Dean Novinsky grew up in Queens, New York, and is from Argentina. She is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations and The American University's Washington College of Law. She practiced employment and immigration law before coming to the School of Law representing migrant farmworkers at Peninsula Legal Aid in Virginia and serving as Legal Director for the Center for Immigrants' Rights in New York, New York. She serves on the NC Bar Association's Public Service Advisory Committee and the Hispanic/Latino Lawyers Committee and served as past chair of the Association of American Law School, Student Services Executive Committee.
Kala Glenn-Pruitt
Recruiting Administrator
(919) 962-0280
kvglennp@email.unc.edu
Ms. Glenn-Pruitt is responsible for managing all aspects of the fall and spring on-campus interviewing programs and off-campus job fairs. She advises students with regard to these programs and other career search issues and provides career management system training sessions for students.
Kala has been at UNC Law for over twenty years, starting out in the Office of Admissions in 1985, then transferring to Career Services in May of 1986. She has an Associate's Degree in Audio Visual Technology from Alamance Community College. Kala served on the board of the Southeastern Minority Job Fair in 1998, 2003 and 2007 and was appointed Southeast Regional Coordinator for the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) in 2002. She is currently serving on the 2007-2008 NALP Nominating Committee as the Southeastern Law School Representative
Adam Ronan
Office Coordinator
(919) 962-8102
aronan@email.unc.edu
Mr. Ronan greets and answers questions from students and employers who visit the office or contact the office by telephone. He posts jobs for students and alumni on Symplicity. Additional primary duties include handling student's resume collections and day-to-day operations in the CSO. Adam also coordinates and assists third-year students with the judicial clerkship application process. Adam came to the CSO in June 2004, and earned a BA in History and Art History from UNC-Greensboro and is currently finishing a graduate degree in Historic Preservation.