Upcoming Career Services Programs
Virtual - Public Service Internships & Fellowships
Interested in learning more about what all the buzz is about with “Public Service” and “Public Interest” experiences? Want to understand how to land one of these jobs in your 1L, 2L or post graduate? Join Tami Diebel, Career Advisor and June Tai, Professor on November 3rd via Zoom to learn more!
Date: Wednesday, November 3 at 12:35 p.m - 1:45 p.m.
Click here for the Zoom link.
OCI is Coming Up, How do I Prepare?
Join the Career Services Team as we outline Best Practices in preparing for On Campus Interviews. Including what you can do now and over break to get ahead!
Date: Friday November 5 at 3:30 p.m - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Room 245 or via Zoom.
Upcoming Career Events
2022 ABA Judicial Clerkship Program
The American Bar Association (ABA) Council for Diversity in the Educational Pipeline and the Judicial Division is currently looking for students to participate in one of the American Bar Association’s signature diversity and inclusion initiatives – The Judicial Clerkship Program (JCP). The next JCP will be held at the ABA Midyear Meeting, February 10-12, 2022, in Seattle, Washington.
The goal of the program is to promote full and equal participation in the legal profession of minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and person of differing sexual orientation and gender identities. To address this goal, the ABA created this program with to encourage law students to pursue clerkship opportunities while introducing judges to students whom they might not ordinarily consider as potential clerks.
The program provides diverse law students from underrepresented communities with real-world practical skills training on being a judicial clerk along with unprecedented group and one-on-one mentorship from and networking with state and federal judges from across the country.
Please submit your resume and short letter explaining your interest in participating in the program to AJ Finch at (alfred-finch@uiowa.edu). Acceptance to the JCP is not dependent on grades. Space is limited so the deadline for applying is Friday, December 3, 2021.
For more information about the JCP, please click here.
Discover Delaware. Small State. BIG Opportunities
The Delaware Diversity Job Fair invites you to join them in a virtual roundtable discussion highlighting the opportunities for law students with diverse skills and experience to pursue a legal career in Delaware. Panelist include:
- Jennifer Ying - Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP
- Bindy Ann Palapura - Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP
- Faiz Ahmad - Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Anne Shea Gaza - Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP
Date: Thursday, November 4 at 5:30 p.m - 6:30 p.m. (Eastern Time Zone)
Click here to RSVP.
Georgia IP Alliance IP Career Showcase
If you’re interested in learning more about exciting careers in Intellectual Property, we have just the opportunity for you. This virtual event will feature a panel of IP professionals in private practice, universities, and corporations where you will get an overview of all of the various types of careers you can have in IP, followed by three breakout sessions where the panelists will answer questions about educational requirements, employment opportunities, and career paths, as well as share their experiences in various areas of intellectual property, such as patent prosecution and enforcement, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, entertainment law, technology transfer (e.g., commercializing ideas), and more..
Choose to attend one or more of the panels to gain valuable information and connect with members of the IP community.
Date: Thursday, November 11 at 1:15 p.m. (Eastern Time Zone)
Click here to RSVP.
Judicial Clerkship Opinion Writing Conference
The Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America welcomes applications to its second annual Judicial Clerkship Opinion Writing Conference, to be held February 24-26, 2022. The conference is open to individuals who have accepted a 2022-2023 federal clerkship (district court or court of appeals) or a 2022-2023 state appellate court clerkship. The 2022 conference is currently planned to take place in person on our campus. Conference details may be found here: Conference Details.
Over the course of the conference, conferees will receive opinion writing instruction from some of our nation's most distinguished members of the judiciary. They will also be guided through writing an appellate court opinion and will receive individual review and commentary on their work by our faculty, all judges or former judicial clerks themselves.
Conferees will be limited to twenty-five. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance until the limit of conferees is reached.
Application information is located here: Application Information.
Applications must be received no later than January 21, 2022.
Military Service and the Practice of Law, presented by Stinson LLP
Stinson LLP's Veterans Employee Resource Group (ERG) will host a virtual panel discussion on military service and the practice of law. The panel of Stinson attorneys will discuss what inspired them to practice law, how their military service has helped shape their practice, and the ways in which our firm supports them as veterans. Attendees will learn about how each of the panelists have leveraged their experiences in the military to find success at different stages in their careers.
Moderator
• Ben Eastburn, Partner and Veterans ERG Chair, Minneapolis
Panelists
• Brigadier General Stephen Schemenauer, Partner, Minneapolis
• Gerry Griffith II, Associate, Kansas City
• Allison Kruse, Associate, Minneapolis
• Todd Phelps, Partner, Minneapolis
Date: Monday, November 8 at 12:00 p.m (Central Time Zone)
Click here to register.
Vault Law 1L Diversity Virtual Career Summit
Connect with top law firms committed to hiring diverse legal talent and fostering an equitable and inclusive workplace. Throughout the day, you will have opportunities to meet-and-greet with law firm representatives, listen to expert panel discussions, and more. It’s never too early to start thinking about your legal career, and this event will help lay the foundation and create a plan for your journey ahead.
- In addition, students can attend panel discussions on a range of topics to help them navigate their careers, including:
- Perfecting Your Resume and Nailing Legal Interviews
- Career Paths: How Did You Get Here?
- Mentoring & Networking: The Building Blocks of Your Career
- Firsthand Tips for Law School Success
- Tackling Implicit Bias in a Virtual World
Date: Thursday, November 4 at 12:00 p.m - 6:00 p.m. (Eastern Time Zone)
Click here to RSVP.
Fellowships/Scholarship Opportunities
ABA Judicial Intern Opportunity Program
The American Bar Association’s Litigation Section is a place where law students become engaged in the legal profession and where we advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. One example of our work is the Section’s Judicial Intern Opportunity Program (JIOP). The program is a summer internship program open to all first- or second-year diverse law students.
Selected students intern for six weeks or more during the summer with a participating state or federal judge. The program offers a $2,000 award to each selected student. Students can also elect law school credit or coordinate their award with their work/study financial aid.
Click here for additional Information
Application Deadline: January 7, 2022.
ABA Steiger Fellowship
The Janet D. Steiger Fellowship Project provides law students the extraordinary opportunity to work in the consumer protection departments of state and territorial Offices of Attorneys General and other consumer protection agencies, including the National Association of Attorneys General and the Attorney General’s Office of the District of Columbia, throughout the United States. The eight-to ten-week paid Fellowships were initiated in 2004 by the ABA Antitrust Law Section, in cooperation with the National Association of Attorneys General, as a consumer protection outreach initiative to introduce law students to the rewards of legal careers in public service. A total of 460 Steiger Fellowships have been awarded through the summer of 2021.
Click here for additional Information
Application Deadline: November 20, 2021.
Lowenstein Sandler 1L Summer
This program offers 1L law students the opportunity to work side by side with Lowenstein Sandler attorneys, a Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Member law firm, during our summer associate program. The program also includes the opportunity to attend the 2022 1L LCLD Scholars Summit. Candidates must be currently enrolled, full-time 1L students at accredited law schools. The 2022 LS Scholars Program offers positions in our Roseland, New Jersey and New York, New York offices
with a weekly salary of $3,950.00. In addition, after successful completion of the 1L Summer Associate Program, 2022 LS Scholars will receive a $10,000 scholarship for second-year tuition and related fees. If LS Scholars are offered and accept Summer Associate positions with Lowenstein Sandler for their 2L summer and they remain in good standing during their 2L academic year, they will receive a $15,000 scholarship for third-year tuition and related fees after successful completion of the
2L Summer Associate Program.
Click here for additional Information
Application Deadline: January 14, 2022.
Marshall-Motley Scholars Program
The Marshall-Motley Scholars Program (MMSP) is a revolutionary and groundbreaking commitment to populate the South with a new generation of civil rights lawyers trained to provide legal advocacy of unparalleled excellence. Through scholarship support, legal fellowships, and professional mentoring, the MMSP will equip and prepare these aspiring lawyers to advocate on behalf of communities as they pursue racial justice and equity in the South, a region of the country where the majority of Black Americans live. Over the next two decades, this ambitious and unique program is committed to creating the next generation of racial justice warriors through the development of 50 new civil rights lawyers.
Click here for additional Information
Application Deadline: February 11, 2022.
Additional Resources
AttorneyJobsinUSA.com
AttorneyJobsinUSA.com is a website that the Iowa Law Career Services Office has subscribed to so our students and recent graduates can use the site at no cost to you! AttorneyJobsinUSA.com provides attorney jobs, in house counsel jobs and law student jobs around the US. In the daily or weekly email, you will see a snippet of the positions and the number of years’ experience required; look for 0-3 years if you are a graduating 3L, or law student jobs if you are a 1L or 2L. We would also appreciate your feedback since this is a new service for Iowa Law, and want to provide you the best options!
Click Here to access this job site. If you have questions on how to register for the site, please contact Tami Diebel.
BradTraverse Job Board
Username: LawHawks
Password: IowaLaw2021
The Brad Traverse Group listserv publishes internship and post-graduate job opportunities on Capitol Hill and the Washington, DC area.
Click here to access the job board.
Fall 2021 Virtual Drop-In Hours
The Career Services virtual Drop-In will be open Monday-Thursday, from 3:00-5:00 pm and Friday from 9:00-11:00am Central Time. You can access the virtual drop-in hours by clicking here.
Georgia Intellectual Property Alliance Job Portal
The Georgia Intellectual Property Alliance (“GIPA”) has launched a new IP Career Portal to help law students, PhD students, science-based students, and IP associates find new positions in the intellectual property practice.Building on our success with the Southeastern Intellectual Property Job Fair, GIPA seeks to leverage our network of employers and higher education contacts to create a job board and portal that facilitates easy lateral movement among attorneys and patent agents.
Likewise, many job posts will be entry level positions for attorneys and patent agents.
Click here to access the Career Portal.
Intercollegiate Job Bank
The University of Iowa College of Law Office of Career Services participates in the online Intercollegiate Job Bank with over 130 other law schools from across the country. Participating law schools upload newsletters with job listings to this job bank.
The following is the login information with the new password:
https://jobbank.law.byu.edu/
Password: findajob123
Law Crossing
Are you searching for jobs, great articles, and career advice? Make sure to check out LawCrossing FREE for current law school students until April 29, 2022. How To get started:
1. Use this Promotion Code Password from Career Services: law.uiowa.edu_2021
2. Go to https://www.lawcrossing.com/lcoffer.php.
3. Scroll down and enter your law school e-mail address (the one ending in “.edu”) and the Promotion Code Password in the box.
4. You will then receive an e-mail at your law school e-mail address from LawCrossing with an address to copy and paste in your browser to activate your account—just follow the instructions there concerning choosing your user name and password.
5. At that point you will be signed-up and able to use all the features of the site. If you do not receive that e-mail with the link, you may have to check your security settings and make sure that the e-mail is not being treated as SPAM. If you have difficulty signing up or viewing jobs, contact LawCrossing Customer Service by phone at 800-973-1177, M-F between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm PST.
Opportunities in Public Affairs
The latest issue of Opportunities in Public Affairs, with hundreds of sought-after jobs in the Washington, DC area all focused on Jobs in Government Affairs & Policy, Public Relations & Advocacy, Media & Journalism, and Entry Level Jobs & Internships. These jobs are on Capitol Hill, in non-profits, think tanks, institutions, the government and in corporations and professional firms.
Click here to login to the OPA website.
User Id: Finch7772
Password: Finch
The University of Iowa College of Law Resume and Cover Letter Tools
This comprehensive guide contains instructions on resumes, cover letter, writing samples, transcripts, and references.
Please click here to download.
Vermont Law Judicial Clerkship Guide
You may access the guide online at http://www.vermontlaw.edu/careers/judicial-clerkship-guide.
The Username is: Sugar and the Password is: Maple.
Many thanks,
AJ Finch
The University of Iowa College of Law
