Office of Career Planning Staff
Jennifer Blaga (jennifer.blaga@law.csuohio.edu)
Director, Career Planning
(216) 687-2540
Jennifer, a ’94 graduate of Cleveland-Marshall and member of the Ohio bar, has recently returned to Cleveland-Marshall, after having served as the Assistant Director of Career Planning from 1997-1999. Since graduation, Jennifer has worked primarily in recruiting and placement of attorneys in the Cleveland legal community. She worked as an attorney recruiting manager for Arter & Hadden, Thompson Hine, and Squire Sanders, managing the summer and fall associate recruiting function, as well as lateral attorney hiring. In addition, she spent several years working in national account sales with LexisNexis, training attorneys in Cleveland’s top 25 law firms on Lexis research products. Most recently, Jennifer spent four years as the Executive Director of the Cleveland office of Special Counsel, a national legal staffing provider, where she was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the business and selling their staffing services to law firms and corporations in Northeast Ohio.
Bernadette Salada (bernadette.salada@law.csuohio.edu)
Assistant Director, Career Planning
(216) 687-2264
Bernadette, a graduate of the evening program of Cleveland-Marshall, is a also a member of the Ohio bar. She has provided career counseling to students and graduates since 1999 as the Assistant Director of the Office of Career Planning. She is an active member of the Law Placement Association of Cleveland, having just served as secretary for the organization. Upon graduation from Cleveland-Marshall, Bernadette defended partnership tax issues before the IRS, and later represented local police unions in discrimination cases. She also represented plaintiffs in wrongful death, medical malpractice, personal injury, and workers’ compensation disputes. Prior to law school, Bernadette was a drug analyst for the Bureau of Criminal Identification & Investigation, a division of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.