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The Janet D. Steiger Fellowship Project (Summer 2013)

By on September 27th, 2012

The Janet D. Steiger Fellowship (named in memory of the late Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission) provides second year law students an opportunity to work in the consumer protection or consumer affairs offices of locations of participating State and Territorial governments. Selected students will serve for a minimum of eight weeks during the summer of 2013.

*Note: *Will only accept 2Ls

Each selected student will receive a $5,000 stipend for the summer (administered through the offices of the state attorneys general and subject to certain federal taxes). There is also a possibility that an optional travel/housing allowance in an amount yet to be determined may be available to Steiger Fellows not living at home during their fellowship, but applicants are encouraged to apply for locations near their place of residence and in any event should not rely upon receiving an allowance in deciding whether to apply for a fellowship.

The application period is (September 24, 2012 until October 19, 2012). Applications will not be accepted beyond October 19, 2012 deadline date. Students must submit all documents requested in the application form via email.

Download application form here.

For additional information, please visit the website.

 

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The Eighth Annual Constitutional Environmental Law Student Writing Competition (2012-2013)-Deadline is April 12, 2013

By on September 27th, 2012

The U.S. Constitution has long been interpreted by the courts and understood by most Americans to support comprehensive environmental protections. However, arguments questioning the constitutional legitimacy of environmental law have continued to gain traction in the federal courts. In response to this trend, ELI, ABA SEER’s Constitutional Law Committee, and NAELS invite law students to submit papers exploring current issues of constitutional environmental law. The article deemed best by a panel of judges will receive the award.  

AWARD: $2000 cash, an offer of publication in the Environmental Law Reporter, and a one-year individual membership to ELI. 

TOPIC: Any topic addressing recent developments or trends in U.S. environmental law that have a significant constitutional or “federalism” component. (See sample topics) 

ELIGIBILITY: Students currently enrolled in law school (in the U.S. or abroad) are eligible, including students who will graduate in the spring or summer of 2013. Any relevant article, case comment, note or essay may be submitted, including writing submitted for academic credit. Jointly authored pieces are eligible only if all authors are students and consent to submit. Previously published pieces, or pieces that are already slated for publication, are ineligible. 

DEADLINE: Entries must be received no later than 5:00 PM ET on Friday, April 12, 2013. Email entries (and any questions) to Judy Amsalem. You will receive a confirmation by email. 

For submission requirements, format, criteria and sample topics, please visit the website.

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The DC Volunteer Lawyers Project is Seeking Applicants for a Managing Attorney for the Domestic Violence Division

By on September 27th, 2012

The mission of the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project (DCVLP) is to increase the pool of trained pro bono lawyers donating their services to low-income families in the District and supporting these lawyers with the necessary resources to provide high-quality representation. The DCVLP’s primary goal is to recruit, train and support these attorneys so they can help local women and families achieve stability and security.

Position Description:

The Managing Attorney for the Domestic Violence Practice reports to the DCVLP Management Team (Co-Executive Directors and Managing Director). 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

  • Oversees all aspects of the Domestic Violence practice area
  • Designs and implements training programs for volunteers preparing to take CPO cases, and Divorce and Custody cases representing victims of domestic violence
  • Serves as primary contact for DCVLP’s partner organization, Survivors and Advocates For Empowerment (SAFE), regarding intake and referral of CPO cases
  • Represents DCVLP in practitioner, task force, and other regular and special meetings of local legal services providers and keeps Management Team and volunteers apprised of relevant information arising from such meeting through memoranda, weekly update and other communications as needed 

Minimum Qualifications:

  • A J.D. degree from an accredited law school
  • Active D.C. Bar membership or ability to become an active D.C. Bar member prior to first day of employment
  • Three or more years of relevant work experience, preferably with a legal services organization that provides legal services to survivors of domestic violence
  • Experience managing volunteers in a legal setting also is desirable
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Fluency in Spanish is a plus
  • Excellent organizational skills, ability to manage multiple priorities at once, and ability to work independently
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to develop good working relationships with volunteers, staff, partner organizations and members of local legal services and domestic violence coalitions
  • Ability to meet deadlines and work well with minimal supervision
  • Competence in MS Word, MS Excel and online legal research tools and willingness to become competent using DCVLP’s case management system and online pleadings library
  • Ability to handle and maintain confidential and sensitive information in accordance with attorney-client privilege requirements and accepted standards for domestic violence service providers
  • Monitors changes to judicial process and legal precedent that are relevant to the Domestic Violence Practice and ensures that changes are communicated to attorney volunteers and additional information and/or training is developed as appropriate
  • Assists Management Team with recruitment of attorney volunteers, including participation in meetings and conferences for this purpose
  • Assists Management Team with special projects (including on-going communications efforts and responses to specific media inquiries) as necessary

To Apply: 

Please send cover letter, resume and writing sample to Claudia Gwilliam.

The application deadline is October 11, 2012.

For additional information, please visit the website.

 

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INTERIGHTS Announces Six-month Funded Internship, Europe Programme

By on September 27th, 2012

Application deadline: October 15, 2012

INTERIGHTS is pleased to invite applications for a six-month funded internship for a lawyer or academic with experience working on human rights in Europe.

Established in 1982, INTERIGHTS works to promote respect for human rights through the use of law. They achieve this through a range of activities: strategic litigation through co-representation, legal support to applicants and third party interventions before international, regional and national human rights courts and bodies; advising lawyers on the use of international and comparative human rights law before their domestic courts; building capacity through litigation partnerships, targeted training activities and internships, and through the dissemination of legal information. Thematically, INTERIGHTS’ priorities are equality, security and the rule of law (including counter-terrorism), and economic and social rights (ESR). INTERIGHTS currently focuses its activities in Africa, the Commonwealth, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

The precise nature of internship activities will depend on organisational and programme priorities at the time of the placement; however, it is likely that the main areas in which experience will be offered will include:

  • Legal research on international and comparative human rights law and practice to support the preparation of legal submissions in cases to be lodged with or pending before the European Court of Human Rights, as well as other legal      work depending on INTERIGHTS’ needs at the time
  • Preparation of materials for INTERIGHTS’ training workshops
  • Assistance on INTERIGHTS’ publications
  • Where possible, attendance at meetings with human rights practitioners, lectures, or visits to other international/national human rights organisations based in London

The six-month internship will begin on 2 January 2013 and will be based in London.

INTERIGHTS will arrange and pay for travel. The intern will receive a monthly grant of £1,300. Accommodation is not provided but INTERIGHTS can advise on finding a suitable place to stay.

Applicants should check the attached terms of reference to ensure that they fit the requirements before applying. This internship is only open to a practising human rights lawyer. Non-lawyers or lawyers without experience in human rights law should please not apply.

To apply please send a covering letter, a curriculum vitae indicating two referees, a recent writing sample of no more than two thousand words and a completed equality and diversity monitoring form. Short-listed applicants may be interviewed by telephone. Due to the high number of applications for our internships we are unable to contact applicants that have not been short listed.

Applications should be sent to Chloë Marong via email. Please enter the title of the internship you are applying for in the subject heading of your email. The closing date for applications is 15 October 2012. Interviews will take place in the week commencing 29 October 2012.

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The National Employment Law Project 2013 Summer Legal Internship Opportunities – New York City, Seattle, Oakland

By on September 27th, 2012

The National Employment Law Project is a non‐profit research and advocacy organization that partners with national, state and local allies – including community groups, immigrant advocacy organizations, worker centers, unions, policy makers and think tanks – to develop and promote policies and programs that create good jobs and enforce hard-won worker rights. They are currently seeking applications from interested law students for their 2013 summer legal internship program in New York City, Seattle and Oakland.

With a staff of lawyers, social scientists and policy experts, NELP’s approach is to work in close partnership with grassroots organizing groups and reformers to test new models in the states and then translate them to the federal level, in order to respond to the key problems of the U.S. labor market in the twenty‐first century. Theor work includes:

  • Developing new strategies to improve enforcement of basic workplace rights in order to combat the growing number of low‐wage and immigrant workers who are not paid the minimum wage or overtime, endure unsafe workplaces and face retaliation when trying to organize;
  • Developing policies and providing campaign support to raise minimum wage and labor standards at the federal, state and local levels, with a particular focus on eliminating loopholes that exclude immigrants, people of color, and contingent and temporary workers from these protections;
  • Working with policymakers and community coalitions to make economic development accountable to community needs and create living wage jobs for local residents.

Summer legal interns will assist NELP attorneys in all aspects of their work. Interns will perform legal research and writing in support of policy advocacy, litigation and community education, and will assist in drafting manuals, articles and policy briefs for publication. Interns may also work with NELP’s National Wage and Hour Clearinghouse, a growing movement of unions, community groups, worker centers, legal services, plaintiff’s attorneys and public agencies working to make headway against wage theft and the erosion of the minimum wage floor and right to overtime pay.

Interested students should submit an application (resume, cover letter and writing sample) via email and indicate in the subject line which location(s) they are applying for. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, but students are encouraged to apply as early as possible.

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Graduate Teaching Fellow Position in Georgetown’s Domestic Violence Clinic

By on September 26th, 2012

Application Process:

Please complete an application, and submit it to both the Domestic Violence Clinic and the Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program. Please be sure to indicate your interest in the Domestic Violence Clinic on the application. Applications must be submitted by Friday, November 16, 2012. Those selected to interview will be interviewed in December or January, with selection following shortly thereafter. Start date is in early July, 2013, and the fellowship is two years, terminating in June, 2015.

Description of the Clinic:

Students in the Domestic Violence Clinic represent victims of intimate abuse in civil protection order (“CPO”) cases in D.C. Superior Court. The Clinic provides students with an intensive, challenging education in the art of trial advocacy, extensive hands-on experience with family law and poverty lawyering, and the opportunity to alleviate a crucial community need for legal representation. Through course work and client representation, students are exposed to every phase of expedited civil litigation. Students also learn to navigate the criminal justice system by working, in cases where it is consistent with their client’s wishes, with the U.S. Attorneys Office in prosecutions against those accused of abusing Clinic clients.

Students litigate to obtain Civil Protection Orders (“CPOs”) that last for up to one year and can include a broad spectrum of relief designed to effectively end the violence in a family or dating relationship. For example, in a CPO, a judge may direct a batterer to cease assaulting and threatening the victim; to stay away from the victim’s home, person and workplace; and not to contact the victim in any manner. The judge may award temporary custody of the parties; minor children, with visitation rights for the non-custodial parent, and award child and/or spousal support, so that a victim is not forced to return to a batterer due to economic necessity.

To prepare students to appear in court, Clinic faculty provide intensive instruction in evidence, civil procedure and legal ethics, as well as the civil, family, and criminal law applicable to domestic violence litigation. In the seminar class, students participate in exercises designed to develop and refine essential litigation skills such as conducting direct and cross examination, delivering opening statements and closing arguments, introducing exhibits into evidence and conducting negotiations. In addition, students hear from expert guest speakers on topics such as the psychological dynamics of battering and victimization, immigration and domestic violence and counseling programs designed for the perpetrator community.

Description of the Fellowship:

The Domestic Violence Clinic hires one person to serve as a clinical teaching fellow and supervising attorney each year, for a two-year term. Fellows have several areas of responsibility, including: representing victims of family abuse in CPO cases; designing and teaching Clinic seminar classes; and supervising third-year law students in their representation of clients. The fellowship experience is designed particularly to develop the fellow’s skills as a clinical instructor and to introduce fellows to a career in clinical law teaching. Throughout the fellowship, fellows also receive extensive supervision and training on their litigation skills.

Clinic fellows also pursue a program of graduate study, through an Introduction to Clinical Pedagogy seminar, taught by the Georgetown clinical faculty. Fellows also may audit regular law school courses. Finally, during the first year, fellows also are members of the Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program, where they have an opportunity to collaborate with lawyers doing a variety of women’s rights legal work in Washington, D.C. For a description of the Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program visit their webpage.

The Clinic prefers, but does not require, applications who have a background in family law, domestic violence, or poverty law and who have some trial practice experience. Fellows must have excellent oral and written advocacy skills, and must be admitted to a Bar prior to commencing the fellowship. Those fellows who are not members of the D.C. Bar must apply for admission by waiver upon accepting the fellowship offer.

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The Federalist Society is Hosting Governor Scott’s General Counsel, Jesse Panuccio on Monday, October 1, 2012

By on September 25th, 2012

The University of Miami School of Law’s Federalist Society is hosting Governor Scott’s General Counsel, Jesse Panuccio on Monday, October 1st. Mr. Panuccio will be speaking about the role of the governor’s general counsel and also about working in Tallahassee.

The event starts at 3:30pm in the Reading Room.

 

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The Center for Reproductive Rights Announces Fellowship and Summer Internship Openings

By on September 25th, 2012

Founded in 1992 and located in New York City, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) is a non-profit organization that promotes women’s equality worldwide by securing reproductive rights in constitutional and international human rights law. Its mission is straightforward and ambitious: to advance reproductive health and rights as a fundamental right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect and fulfill. CRR is unmatched as a reproductive rights organization in its expertise on U.S. constitutional law, comparative law and international human rights law.

Fellowship:

Fellowship application deadline: 1 November 2012

The new fellow will join CRR at an exciting time for the institution and at a critical time for the nation. As opponents of women’s rights are mounting a scorched-earth campaign to turn back decades of hard-won progress, the Center is fighting back with short, medium and long-term strategies, embodied in a new strategic plan launched in 2012.

Responsibilities:U.S. Legal Fellows play an integral role in the department’s work, which includes trial court and appellate litigation; human rights advocacy; legislative and other advocacy projects; drafting of public education materials; public speaking; and legal analyses of state legislation. Some travel is required. These are two-year fellowships. The positions are full-time, beginning in the Fall of 2013 (an earlier start date may be possible if desired by the fellow), and based in New York City.

Qualifications: Juris Doctor degree. Applicants should be self-motivated, capable of complex legal analytical work and have an ability to write clearly and effectively. Knowledge of, or commitment to, reproductive rights or other civil rights and justice issues is desirable.

How to Apply: The deadline for applications is 1 November 2012 (applications received after that date may be reviewed at the discretion of CRR).

Please send your cover letter, resume, at least one legal writing sample and the contact information for three references via email (preferred).

Note: Applicants must indicate “Legal Fellow – United States Legal Program (code 153)– and your last name as the subject of emailed applications. Cover letter, resume, writing sample and references should be sent as attachments. If applicants are applying for more than one position at the Center for Reproductive Rights, they must submit an application for each position separately.

Mailing address:
Legal Fellow – U.S. Legal Program
Center for Reproductive Rights
120 Wall Street, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10005
Fax: 917-637-3666

Summer 2013 USLP Legal Internship Openings:

Summer internship application deadline: 26 November 2012

As a legal intern with USLP, you will analyze state and federal legislation, conduct legal research in connection with active and potential litigation, assist attorneys with client intake and work with members of CRR’s legal team on developing and carrying out the Center’s approaches to strategic and theoretical legal issues. The New York summer program also includes opportunities for joint projects with CRR’s Global Legal Program, lunches with experts in the field, social events, networking opportunities with other organizations and other activities.

CRR seeks to hire four skilled and highly-motivated summer legal interns to help them pursue our mission of advancing women’s fundamental human rights. Applicants are encouraged to obtain funding from law schools or other sources; the Center may be able to provide limited funding. The summer program is ten weeks long.

Qualifications: Law students are expected to have completed at least two years of law school, to have strong legal research and writing skills, and have to demonstrate interest in public interest, gender justice and/or reproductive rights.

How to Apply: Please send your cover letter, resume, unofficial transcript, legal writing sample and contact information for two references via email. Each document should be submitted as a separate attachment. Your cover letter should tell CRR why you share in the Center’s mission and vision, and how you think you would help us to pursue it. CRR encourages you to learn about the organization from its website, and from the cases CRR has litigated, before you submit your application.

You must indicate the position to which you are applying in the subject line of the email, as follows: “United States Legal Program Intern, Code 154, your last name.” (You may apply to both the U.S. Legal Program and the Global Legal Program, but must separately apply to each). CRR will not consider applications submitted incorrectly.

Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. CRR encourages you to submit your application no later than 26 November 2012.

 

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Attend a Free Live Multipurpose Legal Practice Webinar!

By on September 24th, 2012

Law students and alumni are cordially invited to attend a free live webinar hosted by Danny Vazquez, President/CEO of National EUO, LLC. Through this multipurpose webinar, attendees will discover…

  • How to use niche knowledge to get a job, become more marketable or grow your own lucrative niche practice and how you can get started in a little over a month
  • The “Five Simple Steps to Niche Success”
  • The “Path to Profits”
  • The “4 Expert Mandates” — Apply them and succeed no matter specialty you decide to practice.

Danny Vazquez is the President/CEO of two national companies, including National EUO, LLC.  Having created a niche practice, he looks to expose students and alumni to opportunities available through National EUO and related training. Based on their commitment, dedication and ability to conduct EUOs and Statements, the company will identify those candidates who could end up working for NEUO or be granted the privilege to be part of their national network.

Students and alumni may register for the webinar and learn more here.

 

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The Egyptian American Rule of Law Association in Washington, DC Seeks Law Clerk

By on September 24th, 2012

The Egyptian-American Rule of Law Association (EARLA) seeks a second or third-year law student to serve as a pro bono law clerk for ten weeks. EARLA is a non-profit organization that provides technical legal assistance to promote the rule of law in Egypt. Law clerks work virtually from home or in EARLA’s Washington, DC office on various substantive projects, including but not limited to, drafting policy papers on various aspects of Egyptian law, analyzing ongoing changes in Egypt’s legal system and politics, raising public awareness about rule of law in Egypt through social media, assisting in fundraising, attending conferences on behalf of EARLA and preparing for and attending high profile public policy panels at leading think tanks.

EARLA will consider the following criteria when making its hiring decision:

  • Strong interest in rule of law, international law, and the Middle East
  • Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision
  • Excellent legal writing skills
  • Strong legal research skills
  • Ability to multi-task under short deadlines
  • Willingness to perform administrative tasks
  • Fluency in Arabic speaking or reading is preferred but not required
  • Ability to commit a minimum of 10 hours per week during the semester and 15 hours per week during the summers
  • Possesses a positive, can-do attitude

Interested law students should send a resume and a writing sample via email here.

For additional information, please visit the website.