The Cuban American Bar Association (“CABA”) is offering a paid internship to law school students. Students will be offered the opportunity to work for one month with CABA on and one month in a judicial internship.
CABA will be taking two students who will be offered $2,500.00.
For the application form, please speak with your CDO advisor or visit the Symplicity Document Library as “DIVERSITY DIGEST: CABA Summer 2012”.
The Intellectual Property Law Association of Florida’s next meeting will be held on May 29, 2012, at the Stearns Weaver offices in Miami. Please join them for a panel discussion with Jason Buratti, formerly of Zumba Fitness, LLC, Randi Karpinia of Motorola Solutions, Inc., and Michael Montgomery of Miami Children’s Hospital. They will be sharing their experiences and giving a few tips for enhancing communication and facilitating productivity between in-house attorneys and those in private practice.
When:
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 – 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Where:
Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A.
Museum Tower
150 West Flagler Street, Suite 2200
Miami, FL 33130
(305) 789-3200
Please click here for directions
PAID BY 05/28: MEMBERS $50 / NON-MEMBERS $65
AT THE DOOR: MEMBERS $55 / NON-MEMBERS $70
Please send your RSVP via e-mail by Friday, May 25, 2012, along with your check (made payable to IPLAF) to the address below:
ATTN: Dr. Katherine Dover
Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.
200 East Las Olas Boulevard, Suite 2040
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
You are invited to an Online Career Event with U.S. Department of State recruiters and Diplomats in Residence on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 from 1pm to 4pm EDT.
Learn more about more about the Foreign Service Officer Test and how you can prepare for it. You will have an opportunity to connect with recruiters and Diplomats in Residence from the Bureau of Human Resources who will provide insightful suggestions and answer your questions about the FSOT.
Register at http://goo.gl/jL8xC.
Judge Weissbrodt’s chambers is seeking applications from law school graduates who are interested in serving as unpaid Volunteer Law Clerks for summer 2012, the upcoming fall semester 2012 (or longer), spring semester 2013 and/or during the summer of 2013.
Volunteer Law Clerks work on trials and motions. They typically help prepare the Court for complex motions calendars, perform research, and assist in the drafting of decisions. The issues on which they work are highly diverse, involving matters of state and federal substantive law and bankruptcy law, and Federal procedure. They spend time in court and also learn how a judge’s chambers operates.
Interested candidates should submit a resume, writing sample, and law school transcript. Preference will be given to candidates who have taken a course in bankruptcy law or debtor/creditor rights; however, that is not a requirement for the positions. Applications should be sent via e-mail to Kristi Gerrior, Administrative Law Clerk.
The City of Chicago’s Law Department is seeking an attorney for the position of Assistant Corporation Counsel in the RE Division to represent the City in eminent domain proceedings, zoning board of appeals contests, Special Assessment Area collections issues, and general litigation. The Assistant Corporation Counsel will work independently, though under the general supervision of the Deputy Corporation Counsel of the RE Division. The Assistant Corporation Counsel will be given a high level of responsibility for prosecuting City eminent domain matters, including reviewing appraisals, preparing letters, filing complaints, motion practice, discovery and use of expert witnesses, preparing settlement agreements and, if necessary, trial. The Assistant Corporation Counsel should also have the transactional skills needed to close a purchase when the case settles through a voluntary settlement, including drafting a purchase and sale agreement and preparing ancillary closing documents. The Assistant Corporation Counsel will also prepare briefs on behalf of the City in defending decisions by the Zoning Board of Appeals.
The Assistant Corporation Counsel will also be responsible for assisting the Department of Transportation in the administration of Special Assessment Areas.
Qualifications:
Graduation from an ABA-accredited law school and admission to the Illinois Bar (or eligible for admission on motion to the Illinois Bar pursuant to Illinois Supreme Court Rule 705) on or before May 2007 and a minimum of four (4) years of experience as a licensed, practicing attorney.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Application Process and Materials:
There is a two-step application process for this position.
Step One: To apply for this position, you must submit an on-line application on the City of Chicago’s webpage by June 1, 2012.
Step Two: In addition to the on-line application, the following materials must be submitted in hard copy to the City of Chicago Department of Law’s Legal Recruiter, 30 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 1640, Chicago, IL60602:
NOTE: The foregoing hard copy materials must be submitted in person or postmarked on or before June 6, 2012; late submissions shall result in your application not being considered for the position.
Please note that the online application submission deadline is June 1, 2012 and the required hard copy materials submission deadline is June 6, 2012.
If an applicant chooses to submit a writing sample containing confidential or privileged information, the applicant must identify the steps taken (redactions, name changes or consent from the client or employer) to preserve the confidential or privileged nature of the document.
The Faculty Senate at University of Miami is seeking a summer intern to work part-time (up to 20 hours/per week). The intern will manage an oral history project reviewing and reporting on the early days of the Faculty Senate. The project will require some review and analysis of historical documents, but most of the research will be conducted by interviewing former members of the Faculty Senate.
Interested 2L and 3L students with strong writing skills are encouraged to apply. Students with journalism, communications and history backgrounds are also encouraged to apply. This salary for this position is $13/hour.
To apply, please see Symplicity Posting #9717 or email the CDO for application instructions.
The Just the Beginning Foundation (“JTBF”) is an organization dedicated to fostering racial diversity among law clerks serving in the federal and state judiciary. The JTBF Share the Wealth Law Clerk Program is a special opportunity to be considered for six federal district court clerkships in one interview. The program is aimed at encouraging more minorities to apply for federal judicial clerkships. The participating judges accept and consider law clerk applicants of all backgrounds, and this opportunity is merely an effort in addition to, not in lieu of, traditional application channels.
If you are interested in being considered for a JTBF Share the Wealth Clerkship Program interview, your application must be received by September 17, 2012.
For further information regarding how to apply to the Program please visit the website.
In 2011, 25 participating employers extended 34 offers of employment to 78 interviewing students at the Indianapolis Bar Association (“IBA”) Diversity Job Fair. Be it big firm, small firm, government agency or a corporate environment, if you are looking to network and secure a job in Indianapolis, then consider attending IBA Diversity Job Fair.
One $2,500 scholarship will be presented to an interviewing student at the keynote luncheon. For networking opportunities, Thursday’s reception allows students to meet employers with whom they might not have a secured interview. In addition to a resume review and a “what you need to know” workshop, a keynote lunch is also offered where students can interact with firm management, judiciary and Bar leaders.
Employers are all local to Indianapolis; if you are interested in practicing law in a Midwestern city that offers a metropolitan lifestyle, sign up now.
Student registration deadline is June 18, 2012.
There is no fee for students to register for the IndyBar Diversity Job Fair.
For information regarding student registration (which is now open), schedule of events, the interview process, etc., please visit the website. If you have any questions, please contact Caren Chopp. Finally, to learn more about Indianapolis and the young professional community, please see this website.
Founded in 1992 and headquartered in New York City, the Center for Reproductive Rights 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. The Center is unmatched as a reproductive rights organization in its expertise on U.S. constitutional law, comparative law, and international human rights law.
The U.S. Legal Program encompasses litigation on a large and diverse docket of cases; a nimble state legislative program that provides the first line of defense; human rights strategies to hold the U.S. government accountable; and a well-respected Law School Initiative to promote teaching and scholarship on reproductive rights. The Center’s preeminent litigation team has helped millions of women and their families. During the past 19 years, Center attorneys have been counsel in virtually every major U.S. Supreme Court case about reproductive rights. In the last two years, the Center litigated over 20 cases on a range of reproductive rights issues. The Center’s state program is actively engaged in strategic state- and local-level advocacy across the country. At the same time that the Center is defending women’s reproductive rights in courts and legislatures, it works toward the long-term goal of promoting reproductive rights and health as a fundamental human rights issue. By incorporating a human rights framework in its U.S. work in communications, legal arguments (e.g., in amicus briefs), and tactics (e.g., fact-finding reports, U.S. obligations to U.N. human rights treaties), it seeks to bring developments in international and comparative constitutional law and litigation to bear on U.S. law and policy. The Center’s Law School Initiative – launched in 2008 – promotes legal scholarship and teaching on reproductive health and human rights to shape the thinking of the next generation of lawyers, judges, and policymakers.
The new staff attorneys will be joining the Center 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 early 2012, which includes a particular focus on reversing the erosion of reproductive rights protections across the U.S. and establishing the right to affordable reproductive healthcare in the U.S. To advance these strategies, the Center is expanding its staff in the U.S. Legal Program. The new staff attorneys will join a highly accomplished team of dedicated attorneys and advocates.
For information regarding qualifications, responsibilities, compensation and to apply, please visit the website.
The ABA Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate (RPTE) Law Fellows Program encourages the active involvement and participation of young lawyers in Section activities. The goal of the program is to give young lawyers an opportunity to become involved in the substantive work of the RPTE Section, while developing into future leaders.
As a RPTE Fellow, You Will:
• Be assigned to work with a substantive Committee Chair, who will serve as a mentor and help expose you to all aspects of committee membership
• Get involved in a substantive project, which could include writing for a RPTE publication
• Become a Section liaison to the ABA Young Lawyers Division or your local bar association
• Become an active member of the Membership Committee
• Attend important Section leadership meetings
Click here for more information and to view the 2012 Fellows application.
The Fellowship appointment is for two years. To be considered for selection, a person (1) must have practiced in the trusts and estates or real property area for at least one year (and be younger than 36 years of age or have been admitted to the bar less than 10 years), and (2) should have demonstrated leadership at the state or local bar level or in the Young Lawyers Division of the ABA. As part of the Section’s commitment to diversity, at least three of the six Fellows selected will be minority applicants.
Fellows applications are due June 15, 2012.
Questions? Contact Hillary Clark.
