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Is Your Next Law job a Click Away?
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I thought you might be interested in this post which is filled with resources.
Is Your Next Law job a Click Away?
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The Partnership provides professional development for university advisors around federal opportunities through onsite training and virtual webinar conference calls.
Onsite Trainings and Presentations
* Federal Advisor Trainings
* Federal Service Summit
* Conferences and Presentations
* Federal Agency Effective Hiring Workshops
Webinars
* University Webinar Workshop Series
* Federal Agency Webinars
* Archived University Webinars
From the Minnesota Justice Foundation:
Through the Law School Public Service Program, your school encourages every student to volunteer 50 hours of law-related service during law school. This program is administered by the Minnesota Justice Foundation (MJF). Volunteer work will make you more marketable because you will gain practical legal experience by interviewing clients; conducting research; drafting memoranda, pleadings, and other legal documents; performing fact investigation; assisting clients in completing legal forms or representing clients in court. Students who complete the program will receive special recognition.
Stop by the MJF office to find the volunteer project right for you.
MJF offers volunteer opportunities with more than 150 public interest law agencies, including legal services providers, nonprofit organizations, government offices, and private firms pro bono projects, and offers opportunities in a wide variety of substantive areas. MJF works with you to ensure that your volunteer placement matches your interests and time constraints. Fall semester positions go live on our website August 1st. They go fast so make it a priority!
Have you been volunteering in a law-related public service project?
If so, make sure that you notify MJF of your volunteer service hours. Even if you did not arrange your service project through MJF, any law-related volunteering will count toward the 50 hours needed to complete the program. This includes hours you gave that exceeded clinic or work study requirements.
If you are volunteering, please log your hours! To log your hours, visit the MJF website at http://mnjustice.org/ and follow the link on the left hand side. If your volunteer position is not listed, contact your MJF staff attorney, Andrea Nordick, at uofm@mnjustice.org.
The MSB Sections Staff will be posting upcoming CLE, law student event and other announcements on Twitter. Students can follow the announcements directly on Twitter. You or students can become followers by visiting MSBASections. Since more and more sections are including free registration for law students, we hope that you will follow us and join us at upcoming vents!
Elyse Farnsworth
Section Services Director
Minnesota State Bar Association
600 Nicollet Mall, Suite 380
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Direct: 612-278-6336
Toll Free: 1-800-882-6722
efarnsworth@mnbar.org
www.mnbar.org
Peace Corps Panel & Information Session
Tuesday, April 6th
3:00pm-4:30pm
Education Sciences room 325
Are you interested in learning more about positions with the Peace Corps? Well, please come and listen to the first hand experiences of past Peace Corps Volunteers and learn about the steps to apply.
Questions? Please contact Angie Soderberg in CEHD career services for more information and/or accommodation requests at 612.626.7432 or by email at hirecehd@umn.edu
From: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cehd/career/2010/04/peace-corps-panel-information-session.html
Save the date! On Wednesday, April 14th at 3:00pm EDT, NALP and the National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) are presenting "Top Ten Tips for a Successful Summer Internship in a Public Interest Office...and What to Avoid." This free webinar will help law students make the most of their summer experiences in civil legal services organizations and public defenders' offices by offering concrete tips from both public interest attorneys with extensive experience in supervising law students and law school public interest advisors who counsel students on maximizing professional development opportunities. The webinar will be led by Jennifer Thomas, Director of Legal Recruiting for the D.C. Public Defender Service, and Phyllis Holmen, Executive Director of the Georgia Legal Services Program.
To Register: The webinar will be offered live on April 14th and archived for later viewing. All students and law school career professionals who are interested in participating on April 14th should e-mail Kevin Mills, Director of Membership at NLADA at membership@nlada.org, and provide your full name, e-mail address, and a phone number. Please type "Student Webinar" in the email subject line.
From PSLawNet.
Tom Fox of the Partnership for Public Service has partnered with the Washington Post to launch a new blog titled "The Federal Coach." The blog's focus is leadership development in federal employment, but it's also a great resource if you want to learn more about different kinds of federal jobs, as Fox conducts interviews with people from a variety of agencies. Best of all, on Fridays Fox will respond to reader questions, so get over there and take advantage of this great new resource!