National Latina/o Law Students Association

Feel free to contact the employers below regarding employment opportunities. 

 If you have a job announcement you'd like posted, send it to chair@nllsa.org. 

March 2, 2010

January 24, 2010

Rochester Legal Diversity Program

Rochester, NY

The Rochester Legal Diversity Clerkship Program is co-sponsored by the MCBA (through its Diversity Committee), the Rochester Black Bar Association (RBBA), and the Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys (GRAWA).  This program seeks to increase diversity in the legal profession in the Rochester area by attracting qualified first-year law students from historically under-represented groups within the legal profession, including racial and ethnic minorities, to work in paid positions with Rochester area law firms and other legal employers.

The sponsoring bars and participating employers believe that a diverse work force provides better service to clients and a better work environment for attorneys and staff.  These organizations are committed to recruiting, retaining and promoting attorneys who contribute to the overall diversity of the legal community in Rochester.  The purpose of the Rochester Legal Diversity Clerkship Program is to provide Rochester-based work experience to law students of diverse backgrounds, with the long-term goal of increasing the diversity of the legal community.

The clerkship typically lasts eight to ten weeks and the participating organizations pay their standard 1L rate which has typically been $750 - $1000 or more.

Program Specifics:

1. Application: Eligible first year law students are required to submit a formal application, current resume, undergraduate and law school transcripts, a personal statement and the designated writing sample on or before the deadline for submissions.  Applications  and a complete program overview can be found at www.mcba.org/Members/Committees/diversity/
2. Interview: Based on the application materials submitted, qualified candidates are invited to Rochester on a Saturday for an interview conducted by members of the Diversity Committee. Students must secure their own transportation to Rochester for the interviews.
3. Selection Process: After the interviews, the Diversity Committee ranks students based on the criteria described above, and then selects the students who will receive offers, along with alternates.  Students are randomly matched with participating organizations, but a preference for a legal service provider (such as the Public Defender’s Office or Legal Aid) will be accommodated to the extent possible.  Neither students nor participating organizations have a choice in the placement process.
4. Offers:  Selected students receive an offer of placement with a particular organization and are given three days to accept the initial offer (there is no discussion of monetary terms at this point).  If an offer is declined, the position will be extended to an alternate until all positions are filled.  Offers are based on random assignment.  Students who decline offers will not be given the option of an alternate placement. 

January 7, 2010

2010 Summer Internship Opportunity through the Peggy Browning Fund

The National Employment Law Project
2010 Summer Internship Opportunity through the Peggy Browning Fund
Seattle, Washington

The National Employment Law Project is a non-profit research and advocacy organization that partners with local communities to deliver on our nation's promise of economic opportunity. With a staff of lawyers, social scientists, and policy experts, we develop new solutions to the growing economic insecurity of working families. Our approach is to work in close partnership with grassroots organizing groups and reformers to test new models in the states and then translate them to the federal level, in order to respond to the key problems of the U.S. labor market in the twenty-first century. Our work includes:

* Supporting strategies to raise minimum wage and labor standards at the federal, state, and local levels, with a particular focus on eliminating loopholes that exclude immigrants, people of color, and contingent and temporary workers from these protections;

* Developing new strategies to improve the enforcement of basic workplace rights to combat the growing number of low-wage workers who are not paid the minimum wage or overtime, endure unsafe workplaces, and face retaliation when trying to organize;

* Working with policymakers and community coalitions to develop new strategies for making economic development accountable to community needs, promoting higher standards for its delivery of living wage jobs, quality training, career ladders, affordable housing, and environmental sustainability.

The Peggy Browning Fund Summer Fellow will assist NELP attorneys in all aspects of their work. Fellows will perform legal research and writing in support of policy advocacy, litigation and community education, and will assist in drafting manuals and articles for publications.

The total ten-week stipend for this fellowship will be $4,500.

Eligible students interested in applying to the National Employment Law Project for a Peggy Browning Fellowship should read the Peggy Browning Fund Application Requirements (available at www.peggybrowningfund.org<http://www.peggybrowningfund.org/>) and then submit an application package to the Peggy Browning Fund and to:

Rebecca Smith
1225 S. Weller St., Suite 205
Seattle, WA 98144
rsmith@nelp.org

NELP is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women, people of color, the disabled, lesbians and gay men, and people of transgendered experience are encouraged to apply

January 7, 2010

2010 1L Diversity Fellowship - Perkins Coie

Dear Student Organization Members:

We are pleased to announce that our 2010 1L Diversity Fellowship application information is available on our website. Interested students will find a flyer explaining the application process as well as a checklist which will guide them through the process.

The 2010 Perkins Coie 1L Diversity Fellowship program provides diverse first-year law students a summer associate position with the firm as well as a $7,500 scholarship. Fellowship opportunities are available in the following offices: Bellevue, Chicago, Los Angeles, Menlo Park, Phoenix (Perkins Coie Brown & Bain P.A.), San Francisco and Seattle. The application period will run from December 1, 2009 through January 20, 2010. In office interviews will be granted to finalists before fellowships are awarded. 


Mr. Judah Travis |  Perkins Coie LLP
Legal Recruiting Assistant
1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4800
Seattle, WA 98101-3099
PHONE: 206.359.8009
FAX: 206.359.9009
E-MAIL: jtravis@perkinscoie.com
Seven Consecutive Years on Fortune® magazine’s “The 100 Best Companies to Work For”™ 

January 1, 2010

 The New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice

NOWCRJ seeks law students for term, winter, and summer law clerk positions to support its work.  Law clerks must have experience and coursework related to the areas in which NOWCRJ works and a commitment to using legal tools in the context of community lead justice campaigns.    Applicants with language skills in Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu are especially encouraged.

The New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice legal department provides legal support to our grassroots organizing projects and our members to force employers and federal, state, and local agencies to comply with existing laws, to build worker power, and to protect workers’ rights to organize.  Our current work includes federal impact litigation and law reform cases, strategic immigration and detention work, administrative advocacy, policy analysis and advocacy reports, and campaign research and support.  Practice areas include workers’ rights, housing, civil rights, and immigration.

To apply, please submit a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and two references, by email to legaldepartment@nowcrj.org

For more information please contact Jennifer J. Rosenbaum (JJ) at jjrosenbaum@nowcrj.org.

December 18, 2009

Spring Law Clerk for the Legal Services for Entrepreneurs (LSE) Program
 
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area is currently hiring one LSE law clerk for Spring 2010
 
About LSE
 
Legal Services for Entrepreneurs (LSE) is an economic justice project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1997, the Lawyers' Committee formed LSE to assist low-income individuals who desire to improve their own economic well being and that of their communities, and to aid certain businesses that wished to invest directly in dis-advantaged neighborhoods.   LSE focuses on clients who propose to start or develop for-profit businesses which will enhance the economic infrastructure of their neigh borhoods and who have limited access to credit and capi tal.  To date, LSE has assisted more than 1,200 clients.
 
Application Process
 
To apply: please send a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and list of three references to the attention of Silvia Contreras at scontreras@lccr.com.  Please state in your cover letter that the application is for LSE.  Please do not submit a duplicate paper application by mail if you submit an application via email.  If you prefer to apply by mail, send your application to the following address: Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the S. F. Bay Area, 131 Steuart Street, Ste. 400, San Francisco, CA 94105, Attn: Silvia Contreras. 

Prior experience working with small businesses or on transactional matters is preferred and may include, but is not limited to, an applicant’s prior employment history, extracurricular activities, and academic coursework. If applicable, please indicate if you are fluent in a foreign language (particularly Spanish, Mandarin, or Cantonese). Offers are made on a rolling basis.
 
 

December 9, 2009

Attorney Vacancy Announcements from the U.S. Department of Justice Tax Division