Tom Ksobiech
Assistant Dean for Career Services
348-6545
tksobiech@law.ua.edu
Tom Ksobiech
Thomas C. Ksobiech was named the Assistant Dean for Career Services at The University of Alabama School of Law in May 2008. In the position, he oversees all operations of the Career Services Office. This includes mapping strategies for employer recruitment, student and alumni counseling, resource allocation, and career services programming. Prior to this position, he served the Law School as the Assistant Director of Admissions. Mr. Ksobiech also serves as an adjunct professor and teaches Law Office Management, which gives students an understanding of the business of practicing law. The class focuses on the organization of law firms, the marketing and client development of a legal practice, and the management of a law firm’s resources: human, physical, and financial.
Mr. Ksobiech is an active member of NALP, the Association of Legal Career Professionals, and he currently serves the Chair of NALP’s Social Media Work Group. He previously served as the Chair of the Newer Professional Section. In November 2012, the NALP Journal will publish his article on Law Student Professional Development. In April 2013, he will speak on social media at the Annual Education Conference. In 2011, Mr. Ksobiech presented a program on CSO Counseling and Programming Strategies for One-L Law Students at the Annual NALP Education conference. He had two articles in 2011 selected for publication in the NALP Journal: one on cover letter strategies and the other on the use of NALP resources. As a part of the Student Professional Development Section, Mr. Ksobiech drafted NALP’s E-Guide on Law Student Professionalism on Twitter. In 2010, he also had two articles selected for publication in the NALP Journal: the first on CSO and Admissions Office coordination, the second on moving from social networking contacts to in-person meetings.
Mr. Ksobiech graduated magna cum laude from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa in 1997. He earned his Juris Doctor with Distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law in 2000. Mr. Ksobiech spent the following six years as a practicing attorney in Kansas City, Missouri. During that time, he had the opportunity to represent plaintiffs and defendants in complex civil litigation, specializing in medical malpractice and product liability cases. He remains a member of the state bars of Kansas and Missouri.