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In Search of Housing for the Summer?

By on January 27th, 2010

Every year, law students around the country spend their summer in a different city. Finding housing for the summer is one of the biggest challenges to spending a summer away. Below are some resources that may help you if you are looking for housing this summer:

1. The NALP Apartment Exchange allows students to search for housing or post their own listing – all for free. The NALP Apartment Exchange will be available from January 15 through May 15. Free registration is required to use the site.

2. Spending the summer in NYC? The Educational Housing Services is a not-for-profit organization that provides safe and affordable fully furnished housing to students, grad students and interns coming to New York City. EHS manages multiple properties throughout New York City and Brooklyn, and is a great short term housing option that offers the opportunity to live in a community of your peers.  Details here.

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This Week at the CDO (Week of January 25, 2010)

By on January 25th, 2010

Monday, January 25

OCI Information and Symplicity Training Session

12:30 p.m. – Room 108

Tuesday, January 26

NYU Job Fair Interview Preparation for International LL.M. Students

12:30 p.m. – Room 216B

The Spring Judicial Internship Program Orientation has been rescheduled.  An email will be sent to all students who applied for the program.

Wednesday, January 27

OCI Information and Symplicity Training Session

12:30 p.m. – Room 352

Friday, January 29

NYU International LL.M. Student Interview Program

New York, NY

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Funding for Unpaid Communications-Related Legal Internships

By on January 20th, 2010

FCBA Foundation Now Accepting Applications for Funding of Unpaid Communications-Related Legal Internships

For the seventeenth consecutive year, the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) Foundation will award stipends to law students from its Chairman Robert E. Lee Scholarship and Internship Fund.  In 2010, the Foundation will award at least five $5,000 stipends to law students employed as unpaid summer interns in positions with the FCC and other government agencies or entities with a connection to the communications industry (i.e., broadcasting, cable television, telephony, satellite, wireless, and information technology).

In addition, the Foundation will select one outstanding intern among those chosen to receive an additional stipend of $600 for the summer—the “Max Paglin Award.”  Mr. Paglin was the former General Counsel and Executive Director of the FCC, and the founder of the Golden Jubilee Commission on Telecommunications, which compiled a definitive legislative history of the Communications Act.

Requirements

Applicants will be selected on the basis of: (1) a demonstrated interest in the communications field, (2) having secured or having pending, an unpaid summer position (internship) for at least 8 weeks in communications with a government agency or entities with a connection to the communications industry, (3) dependence on financial assistance in order to accept the unpaid internship in a government agency or entity involved in communications; and, (4) community activities.  To the extent a recipient receives unanticipated funding for the unpaid internship, the FCBA Foundation’s general policy is to reduce its scholarship awards by any amount that a recipient’s total funding (including all sources) for the internship would otherwise exceed $7,000.

Applications for a Lee Fund scholarship should be submitted to Kerry Loughney, FCBA Foundation, 1020 19th Street, N.W., Suite 325, Washington, D.C. 20036, by Friday, March 19, 2010.  Applicants may be asked to interview with members of the Foundation Board; interviews may be conducted by telephone.  Winners will be notified by Friday, April 16, 2010.

For an application, go to: http://www.fcba.org/upload/2010internshipstipendapplication.pdf.

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The Point Foundation Scholarship

By on January 20th, 2010

The Point Foundation provides scholarships, mentorship, leadership training and hope for students of merit who have been marginalized due to sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Additionally, Point Foundation provides programs that affect social change by challenging attitudes that contribute to social stigma and its resulting prejudice, which is often experienced by those in the LGBT community.

Applicants to Point Foundation and subsequent scholars turn to Point Foundation because their families are either unable or unwilling to support them and their goals for higher education. Each student has a compelling and inspiring story of overcoming incredible obstacles and hardships. Many have been cruelly rejected by their families, forced to leave home, and cut off from all financial support. Yet Point Scholars are excelling at our nation’s most prestigious and demanding universities and colleges, while also leading in a variety of extracurricular and community service activities.

The application for the 2010 – 2011 Academic Year is now available online.  The deadline to apply, online, is February 12, 2010.

You can find more information about the Point Foundation at their website: www.pointfoundation.org

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Invitation to Attend a State and Government Law Event at the ABA Mid-Year Meeting in Orlando

By on January 19th, 2010

During the ABA Mid-Year Meeting taking place in Orlando, FL next month, the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law will hosting a panel and reception on February 4th at 4:00 p.m. at Todd English’s Bluezoo Lobby on the 1st level of the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel.  

The reception is geared toward showing law students the opportunities available in state and local government law, as well as provide an opportunity for students to meet professionals in the state.  The panel will include Martha Chumbler, Shareholder, Carlton Fields; Michael Donaldson, Shareholder, Carlton Fields; and Maryanne Downs, City Attorney, City of Orlando.

Questions may be sent to Marsha Boone of the ABA.


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This Week at the CDO (Week of January 18, 2010)

By on January 19th, 2010

Monday, January 18 – Friday, January 22


*Please note that the Spring OCI Information and Symplicity Training Session scheduled for Friday, January 22 has been rescheduled for next week.  More information about Spring OCI and the training sessions will be available this week.*

Tuesday, January 19

Summer 2010 International Internship Opportunities presented by Suffolk University Law School and the Center for International Legal Studies.  12:30 p.m. in room 108

Wednesday, January 20

Get Ready for Spring OCI:  Resume Workshop.  12:30 p.m. in room 109

Interview Skills Luncheon for International LL.M. students.  12:30 p.m. – Room 216B

Friday, January 22

1L Firm Night Registration Deadline.  Please submit your completed registration forms to the CDO by 5:00 p.m.

Spring Judicial Internship Applications Deadline.  Internship opportunities are available to 2L and 3L students.  Please submit your completed application to the CDO by 5:00 p.m.

Coming Up Next Week:  Spring OCI will get underway.  Emails will be sent with detailed information this week.

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Opportunities with the United States Department of Justice

By on January 15th, 2010

Each summer, the Department of Justice hires students to serve as volunteer legal interns in Washington DC as well as in United States Attorney’s Offices throughout the country. 

For a list of all opportunities available, please visit the United States Department of Justice’s Summer Internship Opportunities page.  Please note that many of the opportunities have deadlines coming up this month.

For those students specifically interested in interning with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida, a copy of the application as well as more information about the opportunity is available from your CDO advisor or from the CDO Student Portal in the federal government folder.  The deadline to apply is January 31, 2010.

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Epstein Becker & Green Health Law Writing Competition

By on January 15th, 2010

1st Place: $4,000    2nd Place: $2,000    3rd Place: $500

Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., a national firm engaged in the practice of health care and life sciences law, is pleased to announce its Twelfth Annual Health Law Writing Competition designed to encourage the preparation of scholarly papers on current topics of interest relating to health law.  Cash prizes will be awarded for the three best papers.

Entrants should take advantage of the fact that health law is a very broad and diverse field, encompassing aspects of almost every area of law.  Papers may address any traditional are of the law as applied to health care (e.g., antitrust, tax, corporate), or areas of law unique to health care (e.g., fraud and abuse, managed care, Medicare/Medicaid, clinical trials).  Entries in the top 20% will be considered for publication in the Annals of Health Law published by Loyola University Chicago School of Law. 

Click here for more information and an official entry form.  Entries are due by January 22, 2010.  Questions may be sent to ebgcompetition@ebglaw.com.

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Information on Loan Repayment Options

By on January 15th, 2010

For students and recent graduates facing the repayment of student loans, the Department of Education has published a comprehensive list of Questions and Answers regarding the Income-Based Repayment plan.  Those going in or already working in public service as well as those with relatively high student debt to income may want to consider this option.  More information is available at the Department of Education’s website.

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The Fifth Annual Working in the Public Interest Law Conference

By on January 15th, 2010

The Fifth Annual Working in the Public Interest Law Conference  

February 26-27, 2010

 University of Georgia School of Law

Registration is FREE for all students!  Pre-Registration materials and other useful information are currently available online. General Registration (electronic) will open in January 2010. If you have questions, please email the conference organizers.  The conference will be held at the University of Georgia School of Law.   Free housing is available for student attendees.

Topics:

Prison Reform:  Disentanglement from the Concrete Jungle – Issues Facing Former Inmates Struggling to Reintegrate into Society

Environmental Justice:  Not In My Backyard – The Disproportionate Impact of Pollution on Minority and Impoverished Communities

Advocacy & Crossover Kids:  When a Child Never Had a Chance – The Pipeline Carrying Children From Foster Care to Juvenile Delinquency

LGBT:  Don’t Be a Hater! – When Hate Crimes Are Directed At Members of the LGBT Community

Immigration:  The Selective Melting Pot – Balancing the Competing Interests of our Nation and our Immigrants

Public Interest versus Private Practice: Why it Doesn’t Have to Be a Choice

Education Advocacy in Public Interest:  Lessons to be Learned

Media Representation of the Public Interest:  Is Seeing Really Believing?

CLE credits available for a small registration fee.