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November 2010

The Florida Bar Foundation Legal Aid Summer Fellowship (1L and 2L Students)

The Florida Bar Foundation is sponsoring the 2011 Legal Aid Summer Fellowship Program at legal aid and legal services programs in Florida. Florida Bar Foundation Legal Aid Summer Fellowship Brochure Florida Bar Foundation Legal Aid Summer Fellowship Program Placement Sites Florida Bar Foundation Legal Aid Summer Fellowship Online Application The Florida Legal Aid Project Directors’ […]

Putting Your Law Degree to Work in a Non-Legal Career

Join the Academic Achievement Program for a lecture featuring Miami Law alumnus and former Dean’s Fellow, Joel Rose, Esq. CEO of School of One New York City Board of Education and learn how you can put your law degree to work in a non-legal career Tuesday, November 23, 2010 12:30 p.m. Room 352

This Week at the CDO (Week of November 15, 2010)

Monday, November 15 Deadline for Class of 2010 (December 2009-May 2010) J.D. graduates to apply to Legal Corps. Wednesday, November 17 1L Judicial Internship and Clerkship Information Session.  12:30 p.m. in Room F109.

1L Judicial Internship and Clerkship Information Session

Are you interested in a judicial clerkship after graduation? Do you want to intern with a judge this summer? If so, join Professor Sergio Campos and the CDO to learn what you can do now – as a 1L – to prepare yourself for the judicial clerkship hiring process and to find out how to […]

Janet D. Steiger Fellowship for 1L and 2L Students

The American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law sponsors a summer fellowship program, named the Janet D. Steiger Fellowship Project, honoring the memory of the late Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.  In this program, 20 first or second year law students serve a minimum of eight weeks in the consumer protection department of one […]

Presentation on Securities Laws – Law Students Welcome

The Florida Bar’s Business Law Section and the Dade County Bar Association’s Business Law Committee Present: Demystifying the Securities Laws: A Practitioners Approach to Getting the Deal Done Part 4-A The Florida Bar’s Business Law Section and the Dade County Bar Association’s Business Law Committee present “Demystifying the Securities Laws: A Practitioners Approach to Getting […]

Florida Bar Business Law Section Presentation – Law Students Welcome

The Florida Bar’s Business Law Section Presents: Understanding the Little FTC Acts and their Implications The Florida Bar’s Business Law Section presents “Understanding the Little FTC Acts and their Implications.” This event will be held on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 from 12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. The 1.0 hour CLE will be presented by Leon […]

Equal Justice Works and Southern Public Defender Center’s Public Defender Corps

Equal Justice Works and the Southern Public Defender Center have partnered to develop the Public Defender Corps, a pilot project that will provide fellowships for top students to engage in indigent defense with a strong training and support structure. These will be three year fellowships inside select public defender offices. This initiative addresses the ongoing […]

University of Miami School of Law Legal Corps

The University of Miami School of Law recently established Legal Corps, an ambitious postgraduate fellowship program which will place recent law graduates in government agencies, public interest organizations, and judicial chambers in Florida and throughout the country. The recent economic crisis has resulted in a reduction of funding for public sector agencies while the demand […]

This Week at the CDO (Week of November 8, 2010)

Tuesday, November 9 Learn More About Health Care Law! Interested in health care law?  Join three UM law students who recently attended a health law student conference to find out what they learned about taking the health law career path in both the public and private sectors.  Resources for a health law job search will […]