The mentor program was an easy way to make a connection with someone. In college, it was helpful to have an older person who had been there and done that. When he was a supervising attorney for Cambridge District Court prosecutors in 1998-1999, Russell, who is also a mentor to Jachlyn Davis '03, worked with students in the BCLS prosecutorial program. It was like being a professor and a mentor. That experience led him to sign up for the Law School's mentor program when he heard about it.
Mentors act as emotional and professional support network for their students.
Especially at the beginning of the year, mentors spend much of their time trying to put their students at ease. His current students are Valerie Vignaux and Rory Zamansky, both class of 2003. Sheh specializes in business law in the law office of Colin Coleman '87, who used to run the mentor program for the Law School and encouraged Sheh to become involved. Sometimes the students still have to find out things on their own. It took Lisa Goodman a couple of months of trial and error to find the best pizza in Brighton.