AmeriCorps Education Award
The application deadline has been extended to MAY 31 to earn a $1,212 Segal AmeriCorps Education Award through Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps JD Program!
APPLICATION & PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
• Find an unpaid summer service position at a nonprofit or government office.
*We are seeking more students working in our priority areas defined below. Find some organizations on our website that may have openings.
• Complete our quick application with a brief description of the service, a resume, and identification. Review our guide!
• Complete and record 300 hours of service by August 31, 2015.
Earn a $1,212 education award!
SERVICE OVERVIEW
PRIORITY AREAS: Priority will be given to applications from students who are spending at least 50 percent of their 300 hours serving veterans, military families or victims of disasters, or focusing on removing barriers to employment or housing. We also have many spots available for students working with other populations and in other areas of law.
Working with veterans and military families can include issues such as family law, housing, homelessness, health care, disability, and public benefits.
Removing barriers to employment or housing can include sealing, expunging, and/or correcting criminal records; correcting credit reports; helping clients to obtain occupational licenses; restoring driver’s licenses that are necessary for work; and/or other applicable services focusing on legal barriers to employment or housing.
*More information is listed in ROSCOE under Job ID #13245 with Equal Justice Works
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Kansas City Off-Campus Interviews
Monday, August 10
Our annual off-campus interview program has been set for Monday, August 10. We hold the program at the Hampton Inn & Suites Country Club Plaza in Kansas City.
After your grades are final, we will be opening up bidding to the firms who have signed up. Like Fall and Spring OCI, this is a pre-select system so you will “bid” and then be selected by firms based on your application materials. Many firms will interview all the students who meet their general hiring criteria. Here are the firms who participated in 2014:
Stinson Leonard Street
Lathrop & Gage
Shook Hardy & Bacon
McAnany, VanCleave, Phillips
Bryan Cave LLP
Ogletree Deakins
Spencer Fane
Many KC firms have offices around the country so this is a great foot in the door of a larger market.
Even if you have already accepted a position for Summer 2015, consider throwing your hat into the ring for a Summer 2016 position. Stay tuned for more details and make sure to save the date!
Have you finalized your summer employment?
If you have accepted a summer position, please remember to record your employment in ROSCOE. In order to do this, go to your Profile, click on “Placements” and then click “Add New.” You will be asked to fill out the following information:
Placement Type (1L Summer)
Employer
Start Date
End Date
City & State
Job Title
Work Type (clerkship, externship, etc.)
Compensation Type
Compensation (this information will be kept confidential)
Please let us know if you have any questions!
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Summer Career Fairs
See ROSCOE Events for more information.
San Francisco Bay Area 1L Diversity Career Fair
Saturday, July 25
The Bay Area Diversity Career Fair attracts hiring representatives from the most prominent law firms, government legal departments, and nonprofit organizations. Only law students who have completed their first year of law school by the time of the interviews are eligible to participate. Openings are for 2016 2L summer associate positions.
Registration begins on:
Monday, May 18
The registration site can be found at https://basf-orrick-dcf-csm.symplicity.com/students/.
Registration and bidding deadline:
Sunday, June 14
11:59 p.m. PST
A welcome reception for registered students and employers will be held on
Friday, July 24 at 6:00 p.m.
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
The Orrick Building
405 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
For questions, please contact: Jenny Li
Bay Area Diversity Career Fair Project Manager
registration@orrick.com
2015 Rocky Mountain Diversity Legal Career Fair
Friday, July 31
Student registration opens for the Rocky Mountain Diversity Legal Career Fair (RMDLCF) on April 22, 2015. The RMDLCF will take place on Friday, July 31, 2015 from 8:00 a.m. until noon at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium in Denver, Colorado. Students may register through Symplicity at https://law-rmdlcf-csm.symplicity.com/students/
The Rocky Mountain Diversity Legal Career Fair provides an excellent forum for legal employers, law students and law school graduates to meet and discuss employment options with the goal of expanding opportunities and assisting the legal profession in fulfilling its commitment to diversity.
Legal employers attending the RMDLCF seek to hire law students and graduates from diverse backgrounds who have been traditionally under-represented in the practice of law in the Rocky Mountain region. These include candidates who are ethnic or racial minorities, disabled, and/or gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer or transgender.
Law students and recent law school graduates are invited to register and attend the RMDLCF and to apply for twenty-minute scheduled interviews with participating employers. Candidates may also have the opportunity to informally talk with employers at their exhibitor tables.
Indianapolis Bar Association Diversity Job Fair
Thursday-Friday, August 6-7
What sets the IndyBar Diversity Job Fair apart?
* Each year, 20 percent of interviewing students receive and accept job offers
* Twenty-eight firm, government, court and corporate legal employers conducted 401 interviews in 2014
* THREE $2,500 scholarships will be awarded to interviewing students
* Numerous networking opportunities are available for students through a reception, interviews and a luncheon
* A student workshop and one-on-one resume reviews help hone our interviewing students' skills
Find out more information at https://connect.iu.edu/diversityjobfair2015 .
About the Fair
We seek candidates who represent all aspects of diversity and who are looking for a one-of-a-kind legal community in a Midwestern city that has both cosmopolitan style and small-town charm. We invite fall 2015, full-time 2L law students (graduating May 2017) or part-time 2L and 3L law students (graduating 2017/2018) to participate in the fair.
2015 Minnesota Minority Recruitment Conference
Friday, August 7
The Minnesota Minority Recruitment Conference (MMRC) is an annual event that connects the legal employers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area with top 2L and 3L candidates from around the country. Each year's conference and job fair includes around 25 employers and upwards of 100 law students. Employers participating in the interviews may include small, medium and large firms; corporate law departments; and public interest, nonprofit and government entities. Interested in registering? Visit https://law-tcc-csm.symplicity.com/students or our website at http://diversityinpractice.org/event/minnesota-minority-recruitmentconference/
Cook County Bar Association – 2015 Minority Law Student Job Fair
Friday, August 14
The Cook County Bar Association (“CCBA”) is pleased to invite you to participate in the 32nd Annual CCBA Minority Law Student Job Fair (“Job Fair”). In an effort to keep the student-to-employer ratio as low as possible, we are only inviting JD students in the classes of 2017 (current 1Ls/rising 2Ls) and 2016 (current 2Ls/rising 3Ls). Please note that students graduating in any month prior to December 2015 (current 3Ls) are not eligible. All participating students must be from fully accredited law schools. Students must also fall into one of the following categories:
• attend a law school ranked among the top 30 as determined by U.S. News and World Report, or
• attend law school at a historically black college or university, or
• attend a law school located in the Midwest as defined by the National Association
for Law Placement (NALP); or
• be a fellow or associate of the Council on Legal Educational Opportunity (CLEO).
This year’s Job Fair will be held on Friday, August 14, 2015, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Please note that the Job Fair will return to the Embassy Suites Chicago – Downtown/Lakefront, located at 511 N. Columbus Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60611. The Embassy Suites is located two blocks from Chicago’s Magnificent Mile shopping and entertainment district and is minutes from Navy Pier, Lake Michigan and several world-class museums. The hotel’s large suites are conducive to conducting formal interviews, as the sleeping area is closed off while interviews are in progress.
The Job Fair typically attracts more than 500 students from the eligible law schools. Each year law firms, corporations, and governmental agencies register for the Job Fair. These employers are located primarily in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Washington D.C. In addition, we have several employers registered from Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Nebraska. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.ccbaminorityjobfair.org.
The CCBA Job Fair primarily is designed to obtain summer associate positions for rising 2Ls (current 1Ls) during their second summer in law school. A limited number of employers also wish to interview rising 3Ls (current 2Ls) for entry-level associate positions. Rising 3Ls please be aware that Job Fair interview slots for rising 2Ls typically outnumber those for rising 3Ls by a 4:1 ratio.
The 2015 Job Fair Committee adheres to the definition of “minority” provided by NALP, which includes students that are part of certain racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual orientation groups. It is our policy that all students from eligible law schools may register for our event. However, the employers registered for the CCBA Minority Job Fair expect to be able to interview law students of color that are part of racial and ethnic minority groups.
11th Annual Heartland Diversity Legal Job Fair
Friday-Saturday, August 21-22
The 11th Annual Heartland Diversity Legal Job Fair (HDLJF) will be held August 21-22, 2015, in Kansas City, Missouri. Students who are interested in becoming part of Kansas City’s dynamic legal community should strongly consider attending this event. Students who will be returning to school in August and those graduating in May are eligible to attend the job fair, as employers will be interviewing for both summer and post-graduate positions.
The HDLJF is the result of Kansas City's leading law firms, legal associations, and corporate legal departments coming together to encourage law students to practice law in Kansas City. The HDLJF is designed to expose law students of diverse backgrounds to both traditional and non-traditional legal employers. In addition, the event is a great way to learn more about living in this wonderful city.
The HDLJF will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. It will kick off with an evening Welcome Reception on Friday, August 21st at the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association. The Saturday schedule includes a continental breakfast, interviewing from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and a luncheon at which participants will be greeted and addressed by a special Keynote Speaker.
Please register as soon as possible. Students who register before June 5th will be entered into a drawing for exciting prizes. The final deadline for registering is July 3rd, 2015.