FASPE seeks applications for its 2015 law fellowships. FASPE Law, one component of a larger program that works with students in several professional fields, uses the conduct of lawyers and judges during the Holocaust and in Nazi Germany as a launching point for an intensive course of study on legal ethics. FASPE is predicated upon […]
Major League baseball players are honoring the life of former MLBPA Executive Director Michael Weiner by creating a scholarship program to encourage the pursuit of a graduate-level degree in labor studies. Beginning January 2015, the Players Trust will annually award up to five $10,000 scholarships to individuals dedicated to a career supporting workers’ rights. You […]
On Thursday, October 16 at 12:30 p.m. in Room F-108, the American Bar Association Section of Litigation is sponsoring a panel of lawyers who will share with you strategies on how to improve your chances of landing and excelling at your first legal job after law school. Learn how the ABA can help you in […]
In its seventeenth year, the GRAMMY Foundation® Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI) promotes discussion and debate on the most compelling legal issues facing the music industry today. The initiative also promotes future careers in entertainment law by seeking out the nation’s top law students and giving them invaluable networking and educational opportunities. The writing contest […]
Interested in a Career in Federal Government? The Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program offers paid two-year appointments with Federal Government Agencies. More than 80 Federal Agencies recruit through this program. The Class of 2015 PMF application period will be open from October 1-15, 2014 and the announcement can be found here when it opens (simply search […]
Law Student Union Summer (LSUS) is a unique and exciting 10-week internship for law students that combines front-line labor-related public interest legal work with grassroots organizing in real, ongoing campaigns by AFL-CIO affiliated unions throughout the country. In addition to legal research and writing, LSUS interns are involved in community outreach, member mobilization, corporate and […]
Apply by date: October 24, 2014 Description: The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is […]
Thursday, October 2, 2014: Judicial Clerkship Nuts & Bolts Application Workshop – 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room A-110
LAWYER COMPETENCY IN THE AGE OF E-DISCOVERY. Wednesday, October 8, 2014 | 1-2 p.m. ET | REGISTER NOW The nature of a lawyer’s duty of competence has been the subject of debate ever since the ABA revised its definition of competency two years ago to require lawyers to understand “the benefits and risks associated with […]
The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless (the “Legal Clinic”) seeks to hire an attorney to serve as project manager for a new, multi-organization, DC Human Right to Housing Initiative. This Initiative emerged from collaboration among the DC Access to Justice Commission, the DC Bar Pro Bono Program and a number of local legal services […]