Career Services News

3Ls -- Get Your Name (and Face) in Front of Alumni

emhaen01 — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:58:28 -0400

Are you graduating in December 2008 or May 2009? If so, the law school would like to introduce you to our Alumni.

The 2008 Fall Alumni Magazine will include photos and a little information about next year's graduating class. This information will help our alumni get to know about the great new lawyers we are graduating this year. All law students graduating in August or December 2008 or May 2009 are urged to share a little bit about themselves with our alumni.

This is the same opportunity posted in August. We received many profiles, but not everyone's, and we want the whole graduating class represented!

Don't have a photo? Please contact Beth Haendiges to set up a time for a photograph.

To participate, please click on this link: http://www.law.louisville.edu/node/1963 and complete the form. (You must be logged in to access the form.)

The deadline to participate has been extended to October 1.

Torbeck Honored at Metroversity Awards Ceremony

emhaen01 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:55:36 -0400

Assistant Dean for Career Services Jerie Torbeck was honored at a Metroversity Awards Ceremony in the category of Outstanding Faculty of Adult Learners.

Career Services and Public Service Dean Selected

emhaen01 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:36:46 -0400

The University of Louisville's Brandeis School of Law welcomes new Assistant Dean for Career Services and the Public Service Program Kathy Urbach. In this role, Urbach will assist students in obtaining part-time positions while in school and full-time legal employment upon graduation; she will also direct the Law School's Samuel L. Greenebaum Public Service Program. Urbach will join the law school on July 7, 2008.

Urbach is a Louisville native. She received her juris doctor from Georgia State University in 1991. She has experience in nonprofit management, legal services, and career and public service programs at law schools in Florida. Between 1998 and 2003, Urbach was at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law. During her tenure there, she served as Director and Assistant Director of the Public Service and Pro Bono Programs and as Assistant Dean of Career Services. Most recently, she worked as a career counselor for Florida Coastal School of Law.

BLS Briefs Available from Professors Hall, Duncan & Levinson

jltorb01 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:38:53 -0400

You can now pick up your graded BLS briefs (if your BLS professor was Prof. Hall, Prof. Levinson, or Prof. Duncan) in the Faculty Resource/Copy Center (room #272 across from classroom #275 on the second floor) during regular business hours. If you wish to confirm that it will be open when you plan to stop in, call Marilyn (852-6389) or Becky (852-1230).

SUMMER COMMUNICATION

jltorb01 — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:07:04 -0400

Here's the plan for distributing information related to Career Services over the summer. On the law school's website (www.law.louisville.edu) click on Career Services and just read the front page for notices to students.

Of course, if the Docket does actually get distributed during the summer when anything new is added, then we'll use that system also. In either case, you'll have to take steps to receive the information, whether by regularly checking our website or by actually opening the Docket.

Have a wonderful summer, y'all, and don't forget that we will be here in the office if you find you would like our assistance.

Important Planning for August 2008

jltorb01 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:01:30 -0400

Topic: On-Campus Interviewing in Fall semester 2008.

The firms are asking us to start on-campus-interviewing early this coming fall semester. To be specific, Stites & Harbison is our first OCI and they are coming on Friday, September 5th. THEREFORE, resumes and other items they request will need to be turned into career services no later than Tuesday, August 19th.

What does that mean for you? The 19th is only the second day of school; so needless to say, people will have to have updated their resumes while still on summer vacation.

Your Career Services staff are here throughout the summer. Monday through Friday from 9:00 - 4:30. We recommend that you call for an appointment because, with such a small staff and vacations and everything, it is unlikely but possible that the office will occasionally be unmanned.

Contact Jerie at 852-6096 or Debra at 852-6368.

Grads: Check and Double-check

jltorb01 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:55:45 -0400

1. By the end of the week, we will put all the unclaimed wallet-sized photos in your mailboxes.

2. The draft composite is now back at the printers. Watch the door of office #182 for the hanging of the final draft -- to make sure the changes were properly made. (We may have it as early as this weekend, but no promises.)

3. Be sure to get your ERSS (those employment yellow sheets) into Career Services. AND, if you have information to add to your sheet, please come by and update us.

New Law School Scholarship

jltorb01 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:54:56 -0400

Access Group is asking law students throughout the country to videotape their worries for the chance to win a $10,000 scholarship for law school. The "One Less Worry" scholarhsip contest invites students to create and submit an original video of up to four minutes showing what they worry about as law students.

Accesss Group will review the submissions and select ten finalists that will be voted on by friends, family and the general public. Top "vote getter" will be announced on August 1, 2008. This contest is Access Group's first attempt at using social networking venues to educate and connect with students. Complete contest rules and information are posted at AccessGroup.Org/OneLessWorry.

Career Opportunities

emhaen01 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:34:21 -0400

Are you checking the summer job opportunities and part-time jobs?

Bahe Cook Cantley & Jones is looking for a summer associate/law clerk.

Bubalo Hiestand & Rotman has several summer law clerk openings for document review involving mass tort litigation.

There is also a "blind ad" advertising an opening for a May 2009 graduate to work full-time during the summer and continuing during the fall semester.

Career Services will continue to receive part-time/summer opportunities after the semester ends. You can view part-time/summer jobs online under "Current Job Postings."

Attention Students: Externship Information Panel

emhaen01 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:24:12 -0400

Please join the externship supervisors from Legal Aid, the Public Defender's Office and the County Attorney's office to learn about externship opportunities on Thursday, April 10th from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. in Room 060.