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.

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.

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."

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.

In the Cox Lounge on Thursday, April 3rd at 3:45 p.m.  See you there and bring your questions!

This Thursday, April 3rd beginning at 3:45 in the Cox Lounge, meet with Justice Martin Johnstone and Dean Jim Chen to discuss everything you want to know about clerking at all the various levels of the federal and state courts. You've got questions; we've got answers.  Join us!

March 30th Application Deadline!

Commissioner Stuart Ishimaru has two unpaid law clerk positions available in Washington, D.C. He is one of five Commissioners who lead the agency by establishing policy and regulations, approving litigation in a variety of areas, and establishing and overseeing various programs and initiatives.

Law clerk assignments may include reviewing litigation recommendations and federal employment discrimination determinations, performing legal research and writing research memoranda on employment discrimination and administrative law issues, attending meetings with the Commissioner and his staff attorneys, assisting in preparing for public EEOC meetings, and drafting speeches.

A background in employment discrimination and/or civil rights law is preferred. Strong writing skills are required. Law clerks must be available for a minimum of eight weeks. Must be a current student Interested students should submit a resume, cover letter, unofficial transcript, and short writing sample by March 30, 2008 to jacinta.ma@eeoc.gov.

The 3rd annual "Working In the Public Interest Conference" will take place at UGA Law on April 4 and 5, 2008. The conference is dedicated to bringing a creative forum for the discussion of practical approaches to lawyering that can best serve the poor. Pursuant to this mission, the organizers have planned a full day of panels, roundtable discussions, meals, and a career networking reception. The conference is free for students, and free student housing is provided.

Keynote Speakers

• Stephen Wizner, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
• Brenda Joy (B.J.) Bernstein, Attorney, The Bernstein Firm P.C.

Panels

• **Race and the Criminal Justice System.
• **Decriminalizing Mental Illness: The Rise of Mental Health Courts.
• **Funding the Public Defender System: Who Should Foot the Bill?
• Environmental Justice: Towards a Just Future
• Immigration Policy Reform: Immigrant Integration and Civic Participation
• Women's Rights: A New Era in Reproductive Justice?
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Youth in Out of Home Care
• The Media: How it shapes Our View of the Law
• Access to Justice: Civil Gideon Moot Court

**Indicates that the panel is part of the Criminal Justice Series

Lunch Round tables

• Lunch with Carol Kolinchak, Jena 6 Legal Defense Team
• Lunch with Jon Rapping, Southern Public Defender Training Center
• Analyzing Recent Supreme Court Cases
• Impact Litigation

Registration and list of panelist are available at www.law.uga.edu/wipi.

If you have questions or concerns, please email us at: wipi.publicity.2008@gmail.com

Click here to register for the conference: http://www.law.uga.edu/wipi/register.html.

Registration is completely free for students. Attorneys may obtain 8.25 CLEcredits for a nominal registration fee (see website for details).

There is an opportunity for current first- and second-year students to work in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development office in Louisville. This is a paid position, and the deadline is NOON - Friday, March 21.

For more information, please download the complete job description.

Still seeking summer opportunities?  Consider these:

1.  Meet Small Firm & Solo attorneys on Tuesday night, March 18th, beginning at 5:00 p.m. at the LBA (corner of Sixth & Main.)  This Spring Semester Potential Employment Gathering will improve on last fall's Meet & Greet. The "revised game plan?"  Briefly introduce the practitioners so students know which ones do which kinds of law and what sort of help (summer or full-time associate or ???) they are seeking.  Then you all will know who to make a point of speaking to.  Suggested: Business attire with resumes in hand.  Questions? See 3L Robyn Lurding.

2.  Equal Justice Works has both Summer and Post-graduate employment.  All involve working at nonprofit legal services organizations and/or promoting other pro bono opportunities: Summer Corps, AmericCorps Legal Fellowships, and Equal Justice Works Fellowships.  Go to www.equaljusticeworks.org for complete information.