Interested in gaining experience as an Intern this summer with the Office of the Secretary of State in Frankfort, KY?  This is an unpaid position with an opportunity to gain invaluable experience.  For details, go to:  http://www.law.louisville.edu/professionaldevelopment/current-jobs and select Part-time Job 56.  Deadline is May 1st.

The U.S. Sentencing Commission in Washington, DC is offering a paid Summer Legal Internship for 1L/2L students.  The deadline is April 29th.  Click on attachment.

 

  

The Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Center is currently accepting applications from alums and graduating U of L students interested in social and economic justice issues for the DART Organizers Institute, a paid four month training program and career placement.

The DART Center has built non-partisan community organizations throughout the country that have won important improvements on a broad set of issues affecting low-moderate income people including:

• Education reform in low-performing public schools
• Job Training
• Drugs and Violence
• Affordable Housing
• Criminal Recidivism
• Neighborhood Revitalization, etc.

The DART Organizers Institute starts July 10, 2011 and combines a 7-day classroom with 15-week field training. Organizer Trainees will learn such things as:

• Entering a community
• Identifying and training local leaders
• Strategic planning and issue cutting
• Relationship and community building
• Direct Action on community issues
• Fundraising

This is a paid training program designed to place successful graduates into permanent salaried positions making up to $35,000/year in starting salaries, plus benefits. Graduates from the DART Organizers Institute have gone on to build powerful community organizations throughout the country. We continue to train the best of those working to build the power of low-moderate income neighborhoods to win victories on important issues in their community.

To apply, send an updated resume and completed application to: Hannah Wittmer before midnight on Wednesday, April 20, 2011.  To find out more about the DART Center or to download the application, visit our website.

Thursday, April 7th - 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. - room 175

If you want to be ready to "hit the ground running" when you return in the fall on August 15th, don't miss this session!  Find out how to  sign up for Public Service work over the summer.  Make sure you are "active" in Symplicity and have a password.  Even if you aren't planning to participate in On Campus Interviews this fall, the Job Bank is moving to Symplicity over the summer and you will need a password to access job listings.  Dean Urbach will discuss summer and early fall deadlines for opportunities including the Government Internship & Honor Program, Equal Justice Works and other fellowships, as well as numerous conferences and career fairs (two that take place over the summer).  This information will provide you with useful resources in the decisions you make to further your legal career.  Pizza and drinks will be served.

 

Four distinguished local attorneys who practice in the property law area will be panelists on careers in property -- focusing on land use and real estate transactions on Thursday, April 7, 5:30-7:00 in Room 275.  

Summer judicial externships are open to students who: a) have completed 30 credit hours; b) are in good academic standing, and c) develop their own externship placements (identify & make arrangements with a judge).  Supervising judges must be willing to comply with course expectations, and to provide a required end-of-semester evaluation.  A handout explaining course expectations is available outside room 214 and from the TWEN page for "Externship INFORMATION Summer 2011."  The faculty supervisor will consult with supervising judges before the summer term begins.  If course requirements are satisfied, students can earn two (2) pass-fail academic credit hours for the externship.

The deadline to apply is April 5th.  Contact Professor Karen Jordan with any questions.

 

Information about Summer & Fall Externships can be found on the following TWEN pages:

 

Externship INFORMATION Summer 2011  Spring 2011 Jordan

 

Externship INFORMATION Fall 2011 Spring 2011 Jordan

 

Kentucky Innocence Project: INFORMATION for 2011-12 Spring 2011 Jordan

 

 

 

The Kent School of Social Work will be hosting a Career/Networking Fair on Thursday, March 24th from 11 am - 2 pm in the SAC Multipurpose Room.  This event is open to the University community.  Thirty-two non-profit agencies from the Louisville area will be represented.

Rising 2L and 3L students who are interested in attending the 7th annual SIPJF in Atlanta, GA on July 26, 2011 can find information at:  http://law.gsu.edu/careers/sipjf    The registration period for law schools is March 14th-April 25th.  The list of participating employers will be sent to the Professional Development Office on May 4th along with  Student Registration Forms.  If you have let our office know that you are interested in participating, we will provide you with the list of employers as well as a student registration form.  After you have reviewed the list, you can decide if you want to participate.  If you do want to participate, you will complete the form and submit it to our office along with a $30 non-refundable student registration fee (payable online or by check) by May 16th.  

If you would like to be added to the SIPJF distribution list, please e-mail Debra Reh at:  dkreh@louisville.edu

 

Are you trying to figure out how to tell your boss that you need time off over the summer to study for the bar exam? One solution is offered by the Office of Professional Development Temp Service! If you need to leave your job for six weeks or so, we can find a 1L or 2L to hold down the fort while you are gone. It's a win all the way around! Your boss will think you are a genius for thinking of this great plan, you'll be able to study for the bar, and one of our 1Ls or 2Ls will gain some experience and be forever grateful to you!

If you are interested, please let Dean Urbach know by March 20. Thanks!