Would You Like a UDC Law Student to Work [no cost] for You This Summer?

Caveats: If you work for a non-profit, a government agency, or in the judicial system,

and would like a UDC-DCSL student to work for you full-time this summer at no cost to you - please join us for our Summer Public Interest Job Fair on Tuesday, February 10, 2009: 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm UDC David A. Clarke School of Law Room 205, Building 39, (Second Floor) 4200 Connecticut Ave NW Washington DC 20008 Red Line: Van Ness/UDC; Parking under campus off Van Ness St.)

Group representatives set up tables, meet with law students, and have lunch!

Last summer, a record 50 UDC-DCSL students provided over twenty thousand hours of service.

TO RESERVE A TABLE: Please reply to Tiffany Hagwood at thagwood@udc.edu. Be SURE to include the name of the person attending, your organization, street/mailing address, phone, fax and email, and your organization's web site. Please also attach your written internship description if you have one. If you would like to be placed on the guest parking pass list for the school garage, at a cost to you of $3.50 rather than $8.00, please let Ms. Hagwood know by COB February 3. There is no cost to attend.

And - whether or not you can attend, we have a brand new way to post jobs! Please use our new job/internship site at http://www.law.udc.edu/networking/submit.asp

This year, the following groups have already signed up to attend the Fair:

AARP/Legal Counsel for the Elderly
AFGE Local 12
AYUDA
Catholic Charities, Immigration Legal Services
Children and the Law
Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE)
DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice
DC Attorney General's Office
DC Office of Administrative Hearings
Equal Justice Works
Housing and Community Justice Project
Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center
Human Rights First
Just Neighbors
Legal Services of Northern Virginia
National Center for Refugee & Immigrant Children
Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia
Our Place, DC
Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
State of Maryland-Office of the Public Defender
The DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence
The Institute on Religion and Public Policy
The Justice Project
U.S. Coast Guard, Direct Commission Lawyer Program
USDOJ Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management

Facts About the UDC-DCSL Summer Fellowship Program

1) Qualifying organizations include non-profit groups that serve public interest purposes, local and federal government agencies and judges and judicial organizations. The organizations can be in the District of Columbia or elsewhere in the United States . International placements may qualify. Individuals or others seeking legal assistance, private law firms and for-profit organizations do not qualify. If you are unsure whether you qualify, please check with Ms. Bauman, the career services director at DBauman@udc.edu.

2) If your organization has not previously participated, you will need to provide additional information for consideration. Contact Ms. Bauman.

3) Positions must be legal in nature and the student must be directly supervised by an attorney.

4) All first-year law students are eligible for the stipend. If funds are available, upper class students may be eligible.

5) Students must provide a minimum of 400 hours work, to be completed by the end of the summer. They are paid a stipend of up to $3000 by the DC School of Law Foundation (donations to which can be made at www.dcslf.org). Supervising attorneys provide a mid-term and final evaluation of the student, as well as certify student time records.

4) There is no cost to participating host organizations, but if it chooses, the host organization may supplement the stipend with its own funds.

The Fellowship Fair

Group representatives set up tables, meet with law students, and have lunch! There is no cost to attend.

TO RESERVE A TABLE

Please contact Tiffany Hagwood at thagwood@udc.edu. Please be SURE to include the name of the person attending, your organization, street/mailing address, phone, fax and email, and your organization's web site. Please also attach your written internship description if you have one. If you would like to be placed on the guest parking pass list for the school garage, at a cost to you of $3.50 rather than $8.00, please let Ms. Hagwood know by COB February 3.

And - whether or not you can attend, we have a brand new way to post jobs! Please use our new job/internship site at http://www.law.udc.edu/networking/submit.asp

Again, please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues!

Thank you!

Joe

Joe Libertelli, Director of Alumni Relations

UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
4200 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 274-7338