New Jersey Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Tracy M. Thompson has served the state for nearly 30 years as a prosecutor, but she clearly remembers the difficulty she had finding a job in New Jersey after she graduated from an out-of-state law school.

"I thought being from Trenton was going to be enough. I honestly did. A mentor would have told me that was not enough," said Thompson, a New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) trustee.

Determined to pay her success forward, Thompson seized the opportunity to volunteer with the NJSBA's Mentor Match program. Although that program has been phased out, it has been replaced with a new program headed by the NJSBA Young Lawyers Division (YLD). Under the YLD program, mentees fill out a form at njsba.com, where they explain their goals so a suitable match can be made.