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ALL STUDENTS
Office Hours
The Career Services Office is located in Room 113 and is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and to 8 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday. Individual appointments can be scheduled for times when the office is not open. Mary Pat McInnis, Anne Hensley and Jon Baris are available for individual consultations to assist students in all aspects of the career development process, including resume and cover letter review, interviewing tips and general job search strategies. Anne Hensley is also a licensed professional counselor in Missouri and can help with personal issues and career assessments, which include the Strong Interest Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. We encourage all students to meet with us. Do not hesitate to make an appointment or stop by the Career Services Office.
Career Services Thursday at Noon Programming
March 27: Advice from the General Practitioner
April 3: "How to Get on the Law Journals" Presentation
All programs will be held in Room 02. Pizza will be provided. Please bring your own drink.
Apartment Subleasing
For any students interested in subletting their apartment for the summer months, we have made arrangements with the Career Services Office at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law to advertise such to Mizzou Law students.
If you would like to participate in this effort to sublet your apartment this summer, please e-mail your name, telephone number and/or e-mail address to Andrea Follett, Coordinator of Professional Development, University of Missouri School of Law, at folletta@missouri.edu. Along with that information, please include a description of the apartment and the amount of rent you seek. Follett will then compile a Word document for Mizzou students to review and will instruct the students to contact you directly if they are interested.
NALP 2008 Online Apartment Exchange
Law students seeking summer housing and students with housing available for the summer are invited to participate in NALP’s free online 2008 Apartment Exchange. Visit www.nalp.org and follow the link to the Apartment Exchange. The Apartment Exchange is a free service and will be available from Jan. 18 through
May 16, 2008.
National Housing Law Project
The National Housing Law Project (NHLP) is a policy advocacy and law center focused on advancing housing justice for low-income people. NHLP attorneys are considered national experts on the laws governing the federally-assisted housing programs administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Internal Revenue Service. Each year current law students from throughout the country work as interns and clerks. In 2008, new funds will be available to enable NHLP to provide funding for one student intern in its Oakland, Calif., office as well.
Third year students also may be interested in NHLP’s fellowship program, which seeks interested candidates and project ideas for post-graduate fellowships. NHLP offices are located in Oakland, Calif., and Washington, D.C. Additional information is available in the Career Services Office and online at www.nhlp.org.
Dates and Deadlines
Third Year Student Information
Missouri Bar Ethics and Professionalism CLE Program for Third Years
The School of Law will host an Ethics and Professionalism program for graduating third year students on Monday, April 7, from noon to 3 p.m. in Room 303. We strongly encourage all third year students to attend this program. Lunch will be provided.
This program will qualify for three hours of Missouri Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. Missouri Supreme Court Rules require that all lawyers admitted to the Missouri Bar must complete at least 3 classroom hours of CLE devoted exclusively to professionalism, legal or judicial ethics or malpractice prevention within 12 months prior to or after the lawyer’s date of admission to the Bar. This program, which is free of charge, will fulfill that requirement. We highly recommend taking advantage of this opportunity to avoid having to pay and take time away from your professional schedule to fulfill your CLE requirements.
Attendance is not limited to students planning to take the Missouri Bar. The program will provide valuable ethics and professionalism training regardless of where you plan to practice. We also suggest that any students not planning to take the Missouri Bar check with the bar association in the state you plan to become licensed to see if a similar requirement exists and can be fulfilled by this program.
For those students unable to attend on April 7, there will be a video replay of the program on Saturday, April 19, from 9 to 11:50 a.m. in Room 303. Registration materials will be available in the Career Services Office. If you have any questions regarding this program, please do not hesitate to contact Jon Baris in Career Services.
The 2008-2009 Borchard Fellowship in Law & Aging
The Borchard Fellowship in Law & Aging affords one year for two law school graduates interested in, and perhaps already in the early stages of pursuing, an academic and/or professional career in law and aging, the opportunity to pursue their research and professional interests. The Fellowship is $39,000 and is intended as a full-time position only. The Fellow’s sponsoring agency is responsible for providing work space, administrative support, computer, telephone and e-mail access, and employer’s FICA payment. Fellows may live and work where they choose in the United States; Fellows must be either U.S. citizens or legal residents of the U.S.
The Fellowship period runs from July 1 to June 30 each year, or for the calendar year beginning the month after the Fellow’s completion of a state Bar examination. Applicants must submit a completed application form, an explanation of the applicant’s planned activities and projects, a current curriculum vitae, a law school transcript, a letter of support from the proposed supervisor, and two other letters of support. Fellowship application
information and form are available at www.borchardcenter.org.
Completed applications should be sent to:
The Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging
Mary Jane Ciccarello, Assistant Director
335 4th Avenue
Salt Lake City, UT 84103
Applications must be postmarked by April 15, 2008. Selections are made by June 1, 2008. For further information, please contact Mary Jane Ciccarello at 801-532-3626 or mjcr@xmission.com.
Job Fairs and Networking Opportunities
Cook County Bar Association Annual Minority Law Student Job Fair
The Cook County Bar Association (CCBA) is pleased to invite law students to participate in the 25th Annual Minority Law Student Job Fair. The Job Fair typically attracts more than 700 law students and nearly 160 law firms, corporations and government agencies. The job fair is open to all first and second year law students (regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.). The only students not eligible are those graduating this May or August. Please be advised, however, that participating employers are looking for students with a demonstrated commitment to diversity in the profession.
This year only students in the classes of 2009 and 2010 are invited.
This year's Job Fair will be held on Friday, August 8, at the Embassy Suites Chicago-Downtown/Lakefront, 511 North Columbus Drive, Chicago, IL 60611.
Registration information will be available in Career Services AFTER March 15, 2008. For more information, please visit www.ccbaminorityjobfair.com. If you have questions, please contact Anne Hensley at hensley@slu.edu or 314-977-2729.
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