The Miami Lakes Bar Association cordially invites you to its Fall Frolic, a networking happy hour on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at
Shula’s Steak House – The Original 7601 Miami Lakes Drive Miami Lakes, Florida 33014Enjoy complimentary appetizers and happy hour drink specials!
An RSVP is strongly encouraged. Please e-mail Haydee Sera to RSVP.
Women’s Link was founded in 2001. They have regional offices in Europe (Madrid, Spain) and Latin America (Bogotá, Colombia) and are a bilingual organization, working in both English and Spanish in many different parts of the world.
Women’s Link Worldwide is an international human rights non-profit organization working to ensure that gender equality is a reality around the world. Women’s Link has an internship program where students can apply either for the Madrid or Bogotá offices. For more information about that program, please visit the website.
Additionally , the Gender Justice Observatory (GJO) offers students the possibility of long distance collaborations. One of the main projects of the GJO is the free on-line case-law data base which includes commented summaries of the cases. Students could work by doing research on case-law by country, jurisdiction or subject matter or by doing the summaries of selected decisions. This work is a great learning experience that gives the opportunity to come into contact with different case-law produced in very different contexts and also with the practice of law.
For more information about the GJO, please click here.
Attorneys step aside from the legal profession for a variety of reasons and subsequently many decide to resume the practice of law. Some attorneys, although licensed, choose to pursue careers other than law and/or have never practiced. Pace School of Law, with support and assistance from the Westchester Women’s Bar Association, has developed a unique and innovative program, New Directions for Attorneys, designed to provide lawyers re-entering the legal marketplace with knowledge of substantive law, professional legal skills, and practical legal experience that will enhance their chances of success either as practicing attorneys or attorneys pursuing alternative non-legal careers. This part-time five month long program includes numerous components to support individuals in their re-entry efforts.
New Directions is a comprehensive program consisting of a diverse curriculum of substantive law covering a wide range of practice areas, training in practical legal skills, career-related workshops, and the opportunity to obtain an externship with an organization that provides supervised practical experience and mentoring.
For application and program details, click here.
The following is the information about the upcoming session of New Directions:
NEW DIRECTIONS FOR ATTORNEYS Session Two, 2012 September 10, 2012 – February 1, 2013 Location: Pace Midtown Center, 551 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY (45th Street and Fifth Avenue) Application Deadline: August 1, 2012The Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education is hiring one or more General Attorneys for its Program Legal Group. Applications will be accepted through August 3. General attorneys are part of group of about 20 attorneys in the Office for Civil Rights that develop and draft policy dealing with federal civil rights statutes (Title VI, Title IX, Section 504/ADA, Age Discrimination Act, and Boy Scout Equal Access Act) as applied to recipients of financial assistance from the Department of Education. Additional information and the full official job description of this career position is on the website.
The Assistant Dean will develop and implement a long-term enrollment management strategic plan for theSchool of Law, in keeping with the law school’s strategic plan and direction from the Dean, to promote and advance the law school’s goals. The Assistant Dean will lead and manage the Office of Enrollment Management, which encompasses Law Admissions and Law Financial Aid, with the objective of annually enrolling a broadly diverse and highly talented JD cohort of full and part-time students. In carrying out these responsibilities, the Assistant Dean provides leadership to the full array of law school efforts to achieve enrollment goals, including the design and development of strategic initiatives in response to national trends in law school application and enrollment. The Assistant Dean will provide dynamic leadership in the implementation and administration of the long-term strategic enrollment initiatives for the law school. This is a full time position reporting to the Dean of the School of Law.
For information concerning responsibilities, duties, qualifications and how to apply, please visit the website.
Quarles & Brady LLP seeks a junior level associate with 1-3 years of securities law and transactional experience to join its Corporate Finance and Securities Team in theMilwaukee or Chicago office. Applicants should have experience in federal securities regulation (periodic reporting, offerings or related transactions) and drafting, reviewing and negotiating transactional documents. Applicants should demonstrate good judgment and responsiveness to client needs and deadlines, be attentive to detail and be able to manage multiple projects and transactions with supervision. The successful candidate must have a strong academic record paired with the skills, enthusiasm and commitment to become a partner at this firm.
Qualified applicants should submit your cover letter, resume, law school transcript and a writing sample through the firm website. Click here for more information.
Did you ever receive a callback interview when you were taken to lunch by a potential employer? Were you nervous about the luncheon setting? It is true that bad table manners are inexcusable. In this competitive market especially, you cannot afford to make mistakes—even ones as superficial as how you utilize your silverware.
For a good article on how to handle an interview meal, please visit “The Careerist” and read the article titled Watch Your Table Manners by Vivia Chen. The author lists table etiquette which should come in handy in such situations.
The Program:
The Planning and Law Division (“PLD”) of the American Planning Association (“APA”) serves those who seek to understand the diverse legal issues that affect the planning profession. The legal issues underlying the planning of cities and communities are important and essential components in the education and training of those who would become professional planners and land use practitioners. The purpose of the PLD Daniel J. Curtin, Jr. Fellowship Program (“Fellowship Program”) is to foster increased interest in the study of land use planning and its interrelationship with the law at the advanced undergraduate, graduate, and law school levels. This will provide increased participation in the planning profession, and ultimately, greater service to communities across the nation. The Fellowship Program is open to third and fourth year undergraduate students, first and second year master’s degree students, and first and second year law students. One fellowship with a stipend of $3,000 is awarded per academic year. The stipend includes a $2,000 award and a $1,000 APA membership and Annual Conference stipend. The term of the fellowship is approximately ten months (the typical length of two semesters or three quarters) and will include approximately 100 to 200 total hours of work. The fellow will conduct his/her fellowship duties remotely, i.e., from where they live or attend school.
Fellowship Responsibilities & Benefits:
If selected for an award by the PLD Fellowship Committee, the fellow’s responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, assisting the PLD with preparing and conducting its annual membership survey, assisting the editor of the PLD Newsletter (published quarterly), preparing articles for publication in the PLD Newsletter, serving as a Continuing Legal Education (“CLE”) liaison between the APA and various states for the provision of CLE credits to its members, and assisting with the solicitation and review of session proposals submitted by PLD members for the annual National APA Conference. Fellowship benefits include contact with a network of nationally recognized leaders in the field; access to newsletters, webinars, educational sessions and online resources featuring current legal issues and trends relevant to planning; participation in planning and law networking events; and opportunities for leadership and volunteerism in the planning and law field.
Application Requirements:
Applicants for the Fellowship Program shall complete an application form and shall submit all of the following:
Please Note: Incomplete applications will not be reviewed by the PLD Committee. To verify the status of your application, email a request here.
Deadline:
The application submittal deadline for the Fellowship Program is September 14, 2012. All original application information must be received in the PLD Fellowship Program Administrator by that date. If forwarded via FED-EX or similar courier service the delivery must be made to PLD by September 14, 2012. Faxed or electronic documents will not be accepted. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed by the Committee.
For the application and additional information regarding where to send the application materials, the award process, selection criteria, etc., please visit the website.
Miami Law’s Legal Corps program has been selected as one of five finalists in the human rights category for the Southern region for the CLASSY Awards. Now in its fourth year, the CLASSY Awards is the largest philanthropic award ceremony in the country and the event celebrates the greatest charitable achievements by nonprofit organizations, socially conscious businesses, and individuals worldwide.
The Miami Law Legal Corps is an ambitious postgraduate fellowship program that places recent law graduates in public sector organizations globally. To date, 148 fellows have participated in the program and 104 fellows have been hired by their host organizations or have found outside employment since participating in the program.
In order to advance, Miami Law’s Legal Corps program needs your vote before July 26th. To vote:
1. Visit http://www.stayclassy.org/classy-awards/vote;
2. Select South from the list of regions;
3. Scroll to the Human Rights category and select the Miami Law Legal Corps.
New employers are being added to session Fall Recruiting 2012: Fall OCI Program. One new firm is seeking 2L students for their 2013 summer associate program at the firm’s Miami office.
Bidding for this session began Monday, July 16th and will conclude on Sunday, July 29th at 11 p.m. Please continue to regularly check Symplicity and your email account for important Fall Recruiting updates, including participating employers. If you have any questions about Fall Recruiting 2012, please contact Nirva Pierre-Louis or your CDO advisor.
