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The access problem

Talent is distributed widely. Access is not.

Most legal careers are shaped by a handful of early conversations. Who gets them often depends on where a student studies and who they already know.

  • Networks follow geography

    Students near large legal markets meet practicing attorneys early. Many others never get the first conversation.

  • Career offices are stretched

    A small team cannot personally introduce every student to the attorney who could answer their next question.

  • Cold outreach rarely works

    Students do not know who to ask or how. Attorneys who want to help get unstructured messages they cannot triage.

What Embra provides today

Software your students use, and a team that helps you run it.

We keep the two apart, so you know exactly what is product and what is service.

In the Embra Law app today

Software students and attorneys use on iPhone and the web.

  • Verified attorney profiles, with bar admission confirmed before a mentor can accept requests
  • Student profiles with goals, interests and questions
  • Mentor discovery by practice area and background
  • Structured mentorship requests that attorneys accept or decline
  • Messaging once a request is accepted
  • Request limits, community guidelines, reporting and blocking

Delivered by the Embra team

Founder-led services that wrap the pilot. Not software features.

  • Pilot planning with your career services lead
  • Student onboarding sessions and launch materials
  • Recruiting and onboarding attorney and alumni mentors
  • Introduction support when a student needs help finding the right person
  • Programming and events agreed in the proposal
  • A written relationship summary at the end of the pilot

How a pilot works

Four steps, agreed in writing.

Nothing starts until your school has approved a written proposal.

  1. Step 1: Scope

    A conversation with your career office about goals, the student group, timing and what success should mean.

    You and Embra

  2. Step 2: Proposal

    A written proposal with scope, responsibilities, the measures you will see, and pricing.

    Embra drafts, you approve

  3. Step 3: Launch

    Your school invites students. Embra onboards students and recruits attorney and alumni mentors.

    Shared

  4. Step 4: Review

    Regular check-ins during the pilot, then a written summary and a decision on next steps.

    You and Embra

Who takes part

Students, mentors and the introductions between them.

  • Student participation

    Students join free on iPhone or the web, build a profile and choose which attorneys to approach. Participation is voluntary.

  • Attorney and alumni mentors

    Alumni and local attorneys join free as mentors. Each sets topics and capacity and accepts only the requests that fit.

  • Introductions and relationships

    Structured requests start the first conversation. The Embra team helps when a student is unsure who to approach.

  • Programming

    Where the proposal includes them, events and small-group sessions bring students and mentors together in person.

What we measure

Relationships, not downloads.

A pilot is judged on whether students built real professional relationships. These are the measures your summary covers.

  • Activation

    How many invited students complete a profile, and how many attorneys and alumni join as mentors.

  • Introductions

    How many requests students send, and how many attorneys accept.

  • Meaningful relationships

    Accepted mentorships that continue past the first conversation. The exact definition is agreed in your proposal.

  • Student experience

    What students say they gained, gathered through short feedback questions they choose to answer.

Illustrative example

Sample figures for a fictional organization. Not Embra results.

Relationship summary

Example School of Law

Sample spring term

Students onboarded
120Of 300 invited to the pilot
Mentors participating
38Alumni and local attorneys
Requests accepted
64Of 90 sent during the term
Ongoing relationships
41Still in contact after 60 days

What the written summary covers

  • Practice areas students asked about most
  • Where student demand outpaced mentor capacity
  • Mentor capacity against student demand
  • Recommendations for the next term
Reports contain counts and summaries only. They never include private messages, and they name a student or attorney only with that person's consent.

Responsibilities

A clear split of the work.

Embra carries most of the operating load so the pilot does not become another program your office has to staff.

Your school

What we ask of the career office.

  • Name one pilot lead
  • Invite students through school channels
  • Introduce Embra to alumni who may mentor
  • Share the academic calendar so launch and events fit it
  • Review the summary with us at the end of the pilot

Embra

What we take on.

  • Run Embra Law and its support
  • Verify every attorney mentor before they can accept requests
  • Recruit and onboard mentors, including your alumni
  • Onboard students and provide launch materials
  • Prepare check-ins and the written summary

Trust, privacy and consent

Built for a profession that runs on trust.

  • Verified mentors

    Every attorney mentor is reviewed and their bar admission confirmed before they can accept a student request.

  • Private conversations stay private

    Your school sees counts and summaries, never student messages. Embra does not sell personal data.

  • Consent first

    Students decide who to contact and what to share. A student is named in a report only if they agree.

Questions

What career offices ask us.

Request a proposal

Plan a pilot for your students.

Tell us about your school and what you want students to gain. A member of the founding team will reply by email to set up a scoping conversation.

  • A written proposal with scope, responsibilities and pricing
  • No commitment until your school approves it
  • Free for your students and mentors

Fields are required unless marked optional.

Your details

A few sentences is plenty. Please do not include student records or other sensitive information.

Embra uses these details only to reply to your request and keeps them in its internal records. Nothing you type here is sent to analytics. See the privacy policy.

Give every student a first conversation worth having.

Start with a scoping conversation. We will tell you plainly what Embra can deliver for your students today.