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Listed below are links to Web sites to help you in your job search. If you are seeking employment in another part of the country, you may wish to check the career service Web sites of the law schools in that area. Those Web sites may contain useful information for you regarding reciprocity arrangements, local resources, and links to various job databases.
General Legal Career Information
University of Wisconsin Law School Job Bank
https://law-wisc-csm.symplicity.com/students
Our Job Bank offers an on-line listing of
full-time, part-time, and summer employment opportunities for
current students, graduates and non-graduates. It is updated
regularly and is an excellent resource. For instructions on
accessing the job bank, click on "The Job Search" section of the
Career Services web site and then click on "job bank".
State Bar of Wisconsin Legal Career
Center
www.wisbar.org
Legal job postings in Wisconsin and nationwide.
Intercollegiate Job Bank
https://www.law2.byu.edu/Career_Services/jobbank
This website contains the alumni job bulletins of
many law schools throughout the U.S. Call or email the Career
Services Office for the username and password, if you are a UW Law
School alum who wants to access this website.
Westlaw's Law Student Jobs Online and Attorney Jobs
Online
https://lawschool.westlaw.com/shared/signon02.asp?path=/career/attymain.asp?item=14
This website is accessible to law students and recent graduates,
using their Westlaw passwords.
Chamber Associates
http://www.chambers-associate.com/
A student guide to US law firms and legal careers
based on interviews with law firm associates.
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Legal Employment
Weekly
www.lawbulletin.com/browser_pass.cfm
Click on "classifieds" to view Chicago area
legal job listings.
Legaltimes.com
Legaltimes.com
Classified ads for attorneys jobs, mostly in the D.C. area.
JD2B.com
www.jd2b.com
A place where students can go to ask questions, post messages, and
talk about their law school concerns, including admissions,
financial aid, the bar exam, and their job search. It also provides
a platform for discussing the latest headlines, hot-button issues,
and career trends within the legal industry.
The Posse List
www.theposselist.com
This site litigation posts temporary positions for document review
and investigatory document review projects: mergers and
acquisitions; antitrust investigations; class actions and other
complex litigation; mega securities and financial transactions,
etc. There are listings for the Washington, D.C. market (which
includes the greater suburbs, Baltimore, Richmond, etc.), New York
City, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles,
Mami, San Francisco, and a host of other U.S. locales, and Europe,
including projects in London and Brussels.
American Bar Association
www.abanet.org/careercounsel
This section of the ABA site offers weekday
tips, weekly job search Q&A, practice area profiles and other
career and job search guidance for law students and lawyers.
American Health Lawyers Association
www.healthlawyers.org
AHLA is devoted to legal issues in the healthcare
field. The organization has over 10,000 members working in
government, in-house, solo practice, and academia. Students can
join AHLA for $15 per year and get access to three publications for
the latest news and cases in the health law industry. There is also
an online job bank.
Attorney Jobs Online
www.attorneyjobs.com
Provides access to the Attorney Jobs Online
database of law and law-related positions that is searchable by
employer type and geographic location. Access to this database is
$15/month.
Decision Books
www.decisionbooks.com
In the Career Boot Camp section, this website
provides self-assessment exercises for law students and lawyers to
assist in making informed career choices. Site also provides a list
of websites that offer additional online career assessment
tools.
EmplawyerNet
www.emplawyernet.com
A premiere membership to EmplawyerNet provides
access to a job database with thousands of listings. Also, job
information matching your search criteria is sent via email so you
don't have to search the database every day. The fee for this
service is $11.25/month for lawyers and $5.95/month for law
students.
LawPeriscope
www.lawperiscope.com
Using LawPeriscope, you may obtain each firm's contact and address
details or fully investigate the firm and its attorneys, practice
areas, branch offices and clients, as well as access its online
resources such as articles, newsletters and seminars.
Lexis
www.lexis-nexis.com
Lexis is available to all University of
Wisconsin Law Students.
Research background information on any employer. Use the case files
and search by employer name or by the names of individual lawyers
to see what kinds of cases they have worked on recently. Look in
the Legal News file to find out what publications, such as The
American Lawyer, The Legal Times, or The National
Law Journal, may have said about the employer or any of its
lawyers. Search other files for periodicals and publications.
Look for recent federal judicial nominations and/or confirmations when applying for new clerkships. Library: GENFED; File: RECORD; Search: nomination w/3 confirmed and judge w/3 circuit or district.
Martindale-Hubbell Career Center
www.martindale.com/Careers/Careers.aspx
Resource to help
attorneys, lawyers, paralegals, law school students and legal
professionals find legal jobs in local areas. It offers job
opportunities pulled from law firms, corporations and other
employers' websites.
Native American Law Resources
NNALSA
Job Listings Job Listings from the National Native
American Law Students Association
Bar
Associations and Law Firms Focused on Native American Law
Issues
National Association for Law Placement
www.nalp.org
NALP's website contains information on job
searching, placement statistics, starting salaries and career
planning resources.
National Association of Legal Search
Consultants
www.nalsc.org
Website contains a searchable membership directory
with contact information for many search firms.
Women in the Legal Profession: A Keck Center Clearinghouse
womenlaw.stanford.edu/model.policies.htm
l
This website contains model policies and reports related
to alternative work schedules, attrition, careers and compensation,
diversity, family issues, gender bias and more. Also contains
related links and some statistics about women in the legal
profession.
National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) Career
Center
http://careers.nawl.org/
FindLaw's Infirmation
www.infirmation.com
or www.careers.findlaw.com
Click Students
from main page to access career information including an employer
directory, salary charts and access to the Greedy Associates
boards, where associates chime in with their views on employers. Be
aware that some information on the site is outdated.
Heiros Gamos
www.hg.org
Under Legal Directories, click on Law Firms to
access information about law firms in the U.S. and abroad. Provides
lists of the largest firms in each city, which is particularly
useful for those seeking positions abroad. Also contains listings
of legal associations and bar associations.
Lawjobs.com
www.lawjobs.com
The law employment center is divided into three sections - legal
job listings, law firm recruiting information and a legal
employment library.
Law.com
www.law.com
Provides news and features, along with
classified listings separated by states in the Career Center.
Law
Careers.Net
www.lawcareers.net
This web site is primarily geared toward
assisting British students in becoming barristers and solicitors.
However, in the "Latest News" section within "News/Features," there
are useful articles about international law firms. Site also
provides profiles of many international law firms.
LawCrossing
www.lawcrossing.com
Access to LawCrossing is free for law students until December 2009.
Students interested in accessing this resource should go to
https://www.lawcrossing.com/lcoffer.php,
scroll down and enter their information. Note that you must enter
your law school email address (the one ending in wisc.edu) and you
must enter the Promotion Code in the Promotion Code box (do not
enter it in the "password" box on the first screen). Contact
Career Services at 608-262-7856 to obtain the Promotion Code. You
will then receive an email from LawCrossing with an address to copy
and paste in your browser to activate your account. Follow the
instructions there concerning choosing your user name and password.
At that point you will be signed up and able to use all the
features of the site. If you do not receive that email with the
link you may have to check your security settings and make sure
that the email 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 or by email at
contact@lawcrossing.com. Alumni must purchase their own
subscriptions to LawCrossing.
Lex on the Net
www.lexonthenet.com
This web site provides information about law firms in the UK. In
the "Your Career" section under "Working Life," learn about what UK
lawyers have to say about both international and US based firms
with offices in the UK. The "Legal Market" section also contains
useful information about the international legal marketplace.
Martindale Hubbell
www.martindale.com
A database of information about attorneys and
law firms around the world. Through the Lawyer Locator, you can
search the database for individual attorneys, all law firms in a
particular city, firms with a particular practice area and more.
While MH does not list every law firm, it is the most extensive
directory available. There is also a Legal Careers section with
advice and job listings.
NALP Directory of Legal Employers
www.nalpdirectory.com
NALP's National Directory of Legal
Employers, a directory of the larger law firms in the U.S., is
searchable via this site. Directory is searchable by employer name,
location, size, practice area and more. Each employer's individual
listing contains additional details about the firm, including
salary, number of anticipated hires and class years for which they
plan to hire, contact information and a link to the employer's NALP
Workplace Questionnaire, with information about benefits,
alternative work options, pro bono and more. University of
Wisconsin Law students can use the mail merge feature by going to
http://www.nalp.org/schools/mailmerge.pd f.
Vault
www.vault.com
Current students at the University of Wisconsin Law School
should use this link:
http://www.vault.com/cb/careerlib/careerlib_main.jsp?parrefer=682
The Career Services office also has some hard copies of the Vault guides for students to review.
Disability Issues
American Bar Association
Mentor Program for Law Students with
Disabilities
http://www.abanet.org/disability/mentorprogram/mentee.shtml
The American Bar Association's Commission on Mental & Physical Disability Law has a Mentor Program for law students with disabilities. This program pairs law students with practicing attorneys, taking into account the students' interest in being matched with lawyers who have disabilities, geographical location and practice areas of interest. For information, contact William Phelan at 202-662-1576 or phelanw@staff.abanet.org.
Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers
(DBTACs)
www.adata.org/index.html
The National Institute on Disability and
Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) has established 10 regional centers
to provide information, training, and technical assistance to
employers, people with disabilities, and other entities with
responsibilities under the ADA. Each center works closely with
local business, disability, governmental, rehabilitation, and other
professional networks to provide ADA information and
assistance.
Health Law
National Job Bank of the American Health Lawyers Association
International
University of Wisconsin's Go Global Website!
http://goglobal.wisc.edu
This is a service that assists UW-Madison
students (including law students) as they search and prepare for
internationally-oriented employment, by listing various campus
resources and contacts, providing advice for preparation of
applications, and listing job/internship postings.
UWLS CSO Going Global Subscription
Current students click
here to register for access to the Going Global
website, which features Career Guides for various countries and
Global Key Employer Directories and Job Listings. Alumni should
contact Nilesh Patel (nileshpatel@wisc.edu) for access.
The Global Legal Studies Initiative (GLSI)
http://www.law.wisc.edu/ils/events_at_the_institute.htm
This is a joint project of the UW Law School
and the Office of International Studies and Programs. Through this
initiative, the Law School and International Studies will work
together to promote the understanding of international,
transnational, and comparative legal systems, processes and regimes
and disseminate this knowledge to students and constituencies on
and off campus. Information about upcoming events sponsored by the
GLSI will be posted on the Institute for Legal Studies events page
and calendar.
Center for International Legal Studies,
Salzburg, Austria
www.cils.org
CILS offers internships (unpaid) for law students
and graduates with international business law firms.
Jobs-Brussels.com
http://www.jobs-brussels.com
PSLawNet
www.pslawnet.org
Assign yourself a password and Login ID
Chambers Global
www.chambersandpartners.com
Provides access to Chambers Global, a guide and
directory to lawyers and law firms around the world. Law firms and
individuals are ranked according to their reputations in different
areas of specialization. Directory is searchable by location and
practice area. Publisher is based in London and also has Chambers
UK, a guide to law firms and solicitors in the UK. A Chambers USA
is also available as a guide for the U.S.
Solicitors-Online
www.solicitors-online.com
This site provides a searchable database of
solicitors in England and Wales. Allows you to search for law firms
with particular specialty areas or individual solicitors.
Lawyers Without Borders
www.lwob.org
Internships-USA
www.internships-usa.com
Click on the link for "The Internship Series on line" and enter the user name and password (which can be obtained by contacting the Career Services Office). Among the titles available are "Human Rights Internships," "Internships in International Affairs" and "Washington Internships in Law and Policy."
In-House
Association of Corporate Counsel
www.acca.com
Website provides information about working
in-house, has a job search option and allows members to post their
resumes.
Corporate Counsel
www.corpcounsel.com
This is the web site associated with Corporate
Counsel magazine, one of American Lawyer Media's publications. Site
provides news for the in-house community, including access to
articles in Corporate Counsel magazine and the Directory of
In-House Law Departments at the Top 250 Companies. Access to the
directory is free upon creating an account and obtaining a
password. Directory is searchable by industry or practice area.
Each listing provides the size of the legal department and a brief
biography of the chief legal counsel, including law school
attended.
Corporate Pro Bono
www.corporateprobono.org
Initiative of ACCA designed to increase the
amount of pro bono work performed by in-house counsel. Site
provides information about those corporations most committed to pro
bono work and the types of projects taken on by these
organizations.
Minority Corporate Counsel Association
www.mcca.com
The website serves as a repository of
information about diversity in the legal profession, including
career-related articles, lists of recipients of MCCA's Employers of
Choice Awards, spotlights on minority corporate counsel, and links
to websites of companies and local minority bar associations.
Government
USAJobs
www.usajobs.com
2009-10 Government Honors & Internship
Handbook
www.law.arizona.edu/career/honorshandboo
k.cfm
Contains hiring information on 40 federal agencies. Provides
alphabetical listing of organizations with detailed information
about summer and entry-level hiring. Come to the Career Services
Office to obtain a user name and password to access the online
system.
NALP's 2009-2010 Federal Legal Employment Opportunities
Guide
http://www.pslawnet.org/uploads/2009-10_NALP_Federal_Opportunities_Guide.pdf
Offers job seekers a glossary of terms unique to the federal application process and tips on landing a government job.
State of Wisconsin Employment Opportunities
http://wiscjobs.state.wi.us/public/index
.asp
American League of Lobbyists
www.alldc.org
This site provides general information about
lobbying and a career as a lobbyist. The site provides information
on additional publications on a career in lobbying. Student
membership is available for $30 and membership allows access to a
career opportunities site.
Government Jobs
www.govtjobs.com
A private website designed to helping individuals
find jobs and information on the public sector. There is no fee to
search this web site.The site provides a detailed list of federal
agencies, listing of National Associations, and links to websites
for State counties and cities.
National Association of Attorneys General
www.naag.org
Provides a master list of Attorneys General.
Click on About your Attorney General to access a biography of the
Attorney General in each state with a link to the home page for
that office.
National District Attorneys Association
http://www.ndaa.org/
Provides links to individual district attorneys'
websites nationwide. Click on Links and then Prosecutors
Websites.
Office of Personnel Management
www.usajobs.opm.gov
Lists government jobs in all federal agencies,
according to criteria you select. Click on Job Openings to select
the types of jobs that interest you. For example, under
Professional and Entry Level Professional you may narrow your
search by indicating specific job type, your experience/education,
expected/desired salary, preferred geographic area, etc.
Opportunities in Public Affairs
www.opajobs.com
Job listings in public relations, government
affairs, legislation, print and broadcast journalism on Capitol
Hill, in non-profits, corporations, and federal agencies in the
Washington, D.C. area. Subscription costs $69 for six months.
Partnership for Public Service
www.calltoserve.org
This site contains an excellent selection of articles that help to de-mystify the process of applying for a federal government job.
Presidential Management Fellows
Program
www.pmf.opm.gov
Prosecutor Links
http://207.74.121.45/Prosecutor/proslist.htm
A great page for anyone interested in working as a prosecutor. It provides links to over 450 prosecutors, US Attorney and Attorney Generals' Offices nationwide. The site is maintained by the Eaton County, MI prosecutor's office, and is the only resource of its kind. Site also contains links to many offices of Justice Ministries worldwide.
Federal Government
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html
List of all federal government agencies
on-line
Federal Government Service Pay
Scales
www.opm.gov/oca/
American Foreign Service Association
www.afsa.org
Agency for International Development
www.usaid.gov
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
http://fas.org/irp/agency/ustreas/atf/
Central Intelligence Agency
www.cia.gov
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
www.cftc.gov
Comptroller of the Currency
www.occ.treas.gov
Congressional Budget Office
www.cbo.gov
Department of Agriculture
www.usda.gov
Department of Commerce
www.commerce.gov
Department of Defense
www.defenselink.mil
Department of Education
www.ed.gov
Department of Energy
www.doe.gov
Department of Health and Human Services
www.dhhs.gov
Department of Homeland Security
www.dhs.gov
Department of Health and Human Services
www.hud.gov
Department of the
Interior
www.doi.gov
Department of Justice
www.usdoj.gov
Department of Labor
www.dol.gov
Department of State
www.state.gov
Department of Transportation
www.dot.gov
Department of the Treasury
www.ustreas.gov
Department of Veteran Affairs
www.va.gov
Environmental Protection Agency
www.epa.gov
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
www.eeoc.gov
Farm Credit Administration
http://www.fca.gov/FCA-HomePage.htm
Federal Bureau of Investigation
www.fbi.gov
Federal Communications Commission
www.fcc.gov
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
www.fdic.gov
Federal Election Commission
www.fec.gov
Federal Emergency Management Association
www.fema.gov
Federal Labor Relations Authority
www.flra.gov
Federal Trade Commission
www.ftc.gov
Food and Drug Administration
www.fda.gov
Government Printing Office
www.gpo.gov
General Accountability Office
www.gao.gov
General Services Administration
www.gsa.gov
House of Representatives
www.house.gov
Internal Revenue Service
www.irs.ustreas.gov
International Trade Commission
www.usitc.gov
Library of Congress
www.loc.gov
NASA
www.nasa.gov
National Endowment for the Arts
www.arts.endow.gov
National Labor Relations Board
www.nlrb.gov
National Security Council
www.whitehouse.gov/nsc
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
www.nrc.gov
Office of Management & the Budget
www.whitehouse.gov/omb
Patent and Trademark Office
www.uspto.gov
Pension Benefit Guaranty Co.
www.pbgc.gov
Postal Service
www.usps.com
Securities and Exchange
Commission
www.sec.gov
Small Business Administration
www.sba.gov
Smithsonsian Institution
www.si.edu
Social Security Administration
www.ssa.gov
U.S. Information Agency
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/usia/
U.S. Senate
www.senate.gov
White House Internship Program
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/wh-
intern.html
Public Interest
PSLawNet
www.pslawnet.org
A searchable database of jobs in public
interest, including public interest organizations, private firms,
fellowships, judiciary, etc. Contact information for thousands of
potential job sources, as well as specific openings. Free for
University of Wisconsin Law students. Assign yourself an ID and
password.
Equal Justice Works (formerly NAPIL)
www.equaljusticeworks.org
Equal Justice Works website provides very useful
information for anyone interested in public interest law, including
information about their annual public interest career fair, loan
repayment, fellowships and other job opportunities and more.
Internships-USA
www.internships-usa.com
Click on the link for "The Internship Series on line" and enter the user name and password (which you can obtain by contacting the Career Services Office). Among the titles available are "Human Rights Internships," "Internships in International Affairs" and "Washington Internships in Law and Policy."
Harvard University Office of Public Interest
Advising
http://www.law.harvard.edu/opia/details.
php?id=home
One World
http://www.oneworld.net/job/list/profess
ional/
American Bar Association Standing Committee on Pro Bono
and Public Service
www.abanet.org/legalservices/probono/hom
e.html
Provides information on volunteer opportunities, pro bono news,
events, opportunities, awards and resource library.
Alliance for Justice
www.afj.org
A national association of environmental, civil
rights, mental health, women's, children's and consumer advocacy
organizations. The site has information and job announcements for
the Alliance.
American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
A nonprofit, nonpartisan, 275,000-member public
interest organization devoted exclusively to protecting the basic
civil liberties of all Americans, and extending them to groups that
have traditionally been denied them. The site has information and
job announcements for the Union.
Essential Information/Good Works
www.essential.org/links.html
Links to more than 30 public interest
organizations' home pages, including Equal Justice Works and Good
Works.
The Foundation Center: Philanthropy
News Digest
www.fdncenter.org/pnd/jobs
A weekly publication from The Foundation Center,
listing philanthropy-related articles and features from various
media. The job postings list various positions at public interest
organizations countrywide.
Idealist
www.idealist.org
A large directory of nonprofit and volunteering
resources on the web, with information provided by 21,000+
organizations in 150 countries. It is not focused on opportunities
exclusively for lawyers or law students, but there are lots of
listings that could use someone with a legal education.
National Center for Adoption Law &
Policy's Adoption Jobsite
www.adoptionjobsite.org
The National Center for Adoption Law &
Policy matches law students who are interested in summer
assignments concerning permanence for children with private, public
and nonprofit entities who can use their help. This website offers
law students the opportunity for child welfare, family advocacy or
adoption related job experience in several different states.
National Lawyers Guild
www.nlg.org
Home for lawyers interested in social justice,
this site has great links to public interest organizations, NGO's
and human rights organizations.
National Legal Aid and Defender Association
www.nlada.org/jobop.htm
The NLADA site provides legislative updates,
information on defender-related legislation and NLADA conferences.
Job listings, which can be found by clicking on "Job
Opportunities," are organized by region and are posted by civil
legal services or defender organizations, public interest
organizations and academic institutions.
National Institute for Research Advancement - Think
Tanks
http://www.nira.or.jp/past/ice/nwdtt/2005/index.html
Site provides online access to the 2005 NIRA World
Directory of Think Tanks. Organizations are listed by country and
include websites.
Philanthropy.com
www.philanthropy.com
Provides news and information on the world of
foundations and nonprofit management. Hit "jobs" for hundreds of
job listings as well as articles on building a career in foundation
work.
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
www.tlpj.org
TLPJ is a national public interest law firm
dedicated to fighting for justice through precedent-setting
individual and class action litigation designed to enhance the
civil justice system. By clicking on Public Interest Database and
Links on the left sidebar, you can access TLPJ's database of public
interest organizations, including think tanks and policy
organizations. Each listing contains contact information, including
a link to an email address and website for the organization. Also
provides information about numerous lawyers' associations,
including women's and minority bar associations.
United Nations System
www.unsystem.org
The official website locator for searching
within the United Nations, with additional links to other
international organizations. The Vacancy Announcement List under
Careers at the UN is alphabetical by organization.
A related site - www.un.org/depts/OHRM/indexpo.htm
- is the site of the Office of Human Resources for the UN, with
information on types of jobs and openings.
University of Michigan Public Service
JobNet
http://www.law.umich.edu/currentstudents/publicservice/Pages/jobnet.aspx
Offers several categories for searching public
interest positions: alphabetically by job title, reverse
chronological order by date entered, location, practice area, job
eligibility and job type.
Environmental
Ecology Law Quarterly Website
www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/elq
A bibliography of links of environmental law
career and other helpful links.
Econet
www.igc.org/home/econet/index.html
Links for environmental law around the
world.
Environlink
www.envirolink.org
Directory of environmental organizations.
Environmental Career Opportunities
www.ecojobs.com
Current job listings in environmental
organizations; fee required for membership.
Environmental Career Page
www.cnie.org/jobs
Current Job Listings in environmental
organizations.
Environmental Careers Center
www.environmentalcareer.com
Environmental and natural resource job
information and career news.
Environmental Justice Resource Center
at Clark Atlanta University (EJRC)
www.ejrc.cau.edu
Online version of the center's 2000 Directory of
People of Color Environmental Groups.
Environmental Yellow Pages
www.enviroyellowpages.com/environmentalj
obs.html
A listing of current job vacancies in
environmental organizations.
International Network for Sustainable Energy
www.inforse.dk
Lists NGO's in sustainable energy field.
National Library for the Environment
www.cnie.org
Lists opportunities and organizations in the
environment.
National Environmental Directory
www.environmentaldirectory.net
A directory of more than 13,000 organizations in
the United States concerned with environmental issues and
environmental education.
Web Directory Databases
www.webdirectory.com/Databases/Environme ntal_Directories/
An extensive listing as well as links to a wide
variety of environmental organizations.
Labor and Employment
American Bar Association (ABA) Employment & Labor
Law Section
www.abanet.org/labor/
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Career Listings
www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/about/careers/default.
asp
Peggy Browning Fund Fellowship
www.peggybrowningfund.org
AFL-CIO Law Student Union Summer
www.aflcio.org/aboutunions/unionsummer/
AFL-CIO Minority Outreach Program
(copy of list in career services office-contains extensive list
of plaintiff/union side firms)
Judicial Clerkships
Alliance for Justice: Judicial
Selection Project
www.allianceforjustice.org/judicial/inde
x.html
Includes reports and analysis concerning the
federal judiciary and judicial confirmations, most notably
demographic tables based on judges' ethnicity and gender.
Federal Law Clerk Information System (FLCIS)
https://lawclerks.ao.uscourts.gov/
Designed in consultation with federal judges,
administrators at the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and
law school clerkship advisors, the FLCIS is intended to provide
prospective clerkship applicants a single, free, accessible source
of information on clerkship opportunities. All federal judges have
been encouraged by the Executive Committee of the Judicial
Conference of the United States to post information on the FLCIS
about vacancies in their chambers. However, not all judges do so.
Therefore, even if a judge does not have a posting on the FLCIS,
this does not mean he/she has no vacancies.
Federal Judicial Center
www.fjc.gov
Offers short biographies of federal judges and
histories of federal courts.
Federal Judiciary
www.uscourts.gov
General information about federal courts and
links to other court sites. Look for news about judicial vacancies,
nominations, resignations, and confirmations in the online version
of The Third Branch, the federal judiciary's newsletter (Milestones
section): www.uscourts.gov/ttb
By choosing the Employment tab, you can access the
Federal Law Clerk Information System, a searchable database of law
clerk hiring information for federal judges. Only the judges'
chambers can post information, and it can be modified or updated
instantaneously, as often as the judge deems necessary. Potential
applicants can search by court, and can refine their searches for
starting dates, specific judges, or clerkship term. The site also
contains information on the duties of law clerks, salary, and
benefits. Also, under the Employment tab, you will find a link to
the D.C. Circuit's web page devoted to information on the new law
clerk hiring plan.
FindLaw: Federal Resources
www.findlaw.com/10fedgov/Judicial
Has links to court websites, accompanied by
brief descriptions of each site.
The Nation's Court Directory
www.courts.com
This site has been developed to provide access
to web sites maintained by courts nationwide. The listings are
organized in sections, covering courts in all
states and the Federal system, as well as D.C., territories, Canada
and Australia.
National Center for State
Courts
www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/info_court_web_ sites.html
Links to numerous state and international court
sites.
Senate Judiciary Committee
www.senate.gov/~judiciary
Includes calendar of confirmation hearings and
committee actions, as well as listings of judicial nominations and
confirmations.
Senate Nominations
www.senate.gov/legislative/legis_act_nom inations.html
Most up-to-date listings of recent nominations
and confirmations, judicial and otherwise.
Academia
Association of American Law Schools
www.aals.org
For those interested in careers in legal
academia, this site provides information about subscriptions to the
AALS Placement Bulletin, a publication that lists available faculty
and administrative positions, as well as positions related to legal
education outside law schools. Subscription rates are $19 for a
single issue, $57 for three issues or $85 for six issues (the
Bulletin is published six times per year).
National Association of Student Personnel
Administrators
www.naspa.org
For those interested in careers in academic
administration, this site provides some general information, links
to a number of job listings, including the Chronicle of Higher
Education, and links to other higher education organizations.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
www.chronicle.com/jobs
The Chronicle of Higher Education publishes its
job listings on the Internet. An online subscription gives access
to the latest postings; a one-month subscription costs $7.25, a
6-month subscription costs $45, a full year costs $82.50. Postings
from the previous week are available for free. There is also an
entire section of articles titled "Advice for the Job Seeker."
Legal Newspapers & Magazines
ABA Journal
www.abanet.org/journal
Articles are available to read, and the careers
section contains advice for job seekers.
IP Law Practice Center
www.law.com/professionals/iplaw.html
Provides information on law and technology as
well as job listings and firm directories.
Law Bulletin Publishing Company
www.lawbulletin.com
Site serves the Chicago legal and business
communities by providing news, data and access to Chicago area
legal newspapers. Also contains classified jobs for free.
Lawyers Weekly Jobs
www.lawyersweeklyjobs.com
Lawyer's Weekly newspaper is published in MA,
MI, MO, NC, OH, RI, SC and VA. There is also a national
publication, Lawyers Weekly USA. Site provides access to its
classified job listings online for free. Review articles to
familiarize yourself with the legal community in these states.
LALegalPad
www.LALegalPad.com
LALegalPad.com features useful tooks and links, including regional
legal news and information about the Los Angeles, Orange County,
and San Diego legal communities.
The Minority Law Journal
www.minoritylawjournal.com
Best aspect of this website is that it links to
the Directory of Minority Attorneys. The Directory contains
listings of minority-owned law firms, and the names of minority
attorneys in majority-owned law firms, corporate law departments
and government agencies. Site also provides links to other American
Lawyer Media publications such as The American Lawyer, Corporate
Counsel, New York Lawyer and the National Law Journal.
General Career Information
Wisconsin Alumni Association Career
Center
http://www.uwalumni.com/home/careerresources/careerresources.aspx
Career information and links
JOBTRAK
http://www.monstertrak.com/
"Pathway" access is available ONLY via UW computers.
Business jobs posted with the University of Wisconsin Business
School.
America's Job Bank
www.ajb.dni.us
Most of the jobs listed on America's Job Bank
are full time, and most are in the private sector. The job openings
come from all over the country and represent all types of work,
from professional and technical to blue collar, from management to
clerical and sales.
Association Executives
http://associationexecs.com
A directory of over 16,800 national and state trade
and professional associations, including legal associations. You
can search the directory by state, by subject/industry, by
membership size, by job function, or by annual meeting
dates/places. Contact Asst. Dean Jane Heymann, jheymann@wisc.edu, for the username and
password.
Career Magazine
www.careermag.com
Click on Search Jobs to begin a keyword search
to locate legal job listings. Site also provides career links and
information on job fairs.
Careers in Business
www.careers-in-business.com
This site outlines information about salaries,
helpful reading materials, links to Internet resources, and has an
index of frequently asked questions regarding the Investment
Banking Industry.
Careerbuilder.com
www.careerbuilder.com
For job seekers, the site offers many current
available job postings collected from newspapers and employers
across the country. You can also post a resume online.
HotJobs.com
www.hotjobs.com
Lists hundreds of thousands of jobs posted by
corporate hiring mangers, as well as from staffing firms and
executive recruiters. Jobs that are not posted by corporate members
are clearly marked, offering opportunity seekers better guidance
when doing a job search or applying for a job online.
Careerjournal.com
www.careerjournal.com
General career advice from the Wall Street
Journal.
Internet Career Connection
www.iccweb.com
Provides general information about career
searching. On the Select Department menu, choose Help Wanted -
Government Jobs Central to get articles and a listing of government
offices for further information.
Job-Hunt.Org
www.job-hunt.org
Collection of many Internet sites that contain
job listings and career information. The links are broken down by
category, such as Law and Law Enforcement and Finance, Accounting
and Banking.
Keirsey Temperament Sorter
www.keirsey.com
Provides an online version of the Keirsey
Temperament Sorter, a personality test designed to allow job
seekers to identify their personality types.
Monster.com
www.monster.com
Simple but comprehensive job search for various
types of positions across the country.
Non-Traditional Legal Careers Report
www.nontradlegal.com
Published
every two weeks, the Report publishes real positions for J.D.'s in
non-law firm settings. Contact Career Services staff for a username
and password.
Salary Calculator
www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.h
tml
Enables job seekers to compare the cost of
living in hundreds of U.S. and international cities.
The Riley Guide
www.rileyguide.com
A directory of employment career information
sources and services on the internet. Provides links to other sites
with information on preparing and executing a job search. Click on
Job Listings for links to web resources on 48 categories including
law, nonprofits, think tanks and government.
Yahoo! Consulting Directory
www.dir.yahoo.com/BusinessandEconomy/Bus inesstoBusiness/
Provides an extensive list of company website
links arranged in alphabetical order or by category. Easy to
use.
WetFeet
www.wetfeet.com
In the Do Research section of the site, you can
read career and industry overviews, job requirements, career tracks
and compensation for a host of business careers. This section also
contains company profiles, information about salaries and perks and
city profiles. Site also contains an advice section and job
listings.
What Color is Your Parachute?
www.jobhuntersbible.com
Supplement to the book What Color is Your
Parachute?, a manual for job hunters and career changers. Site
provides advice about making contacts, finding job openings,
conducting research and creating resumes. Not law specific.
Bar Examination Information
American Bar Association
www.abanet.org
Provides an online version of the
Comprehensive Guide to Bar Admission Requirements, which
includes a directory of state bar admissions offices.
National Conference of Bar Examiners
www.ncbex.org
Provides address, telephone and website
information for each state's bar admissions office, bar exam
statistics, a link to the ABA's Comprehensive Guide to Bar
Admission Requirements, and information about the Multistate
Professional Responsibility Exam. In addition, you can subscribe
for only $26 to the NCBEX's new product to help students prepare
for the Multistate portion of the Bar Exam, called "MBE-AP." See
http://www.ncbex2.org/catalog/
for detailed information.
Barbri
www.barbri.com
This bar review preparation program has an
informative website that provides bar related information for each
state, including a link to the state's bar examination board, exam
locations, filing deadlines, exam format, subjects tested and
more.
MicroMash
www.micromashbar.com
PMBR Multistate Bar Review
www.pmbr.com
Adaptibar
www.adaptibar.com
Online Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) preparation course.
The Study Group Essay Trainer
www.thestudygroup.com
Supreme Bar Review
www.supremebarreview.com
Offers programs specifically for Multistate Bar Exam (MBE),
Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE), Multistate
Performance Test (MPT), and Full-Service Bar Review for the Ohio
Bar Exam.
Housing and Summer Sublet Information
Colfax Relocations
www.colfaxrelocations.com
Students and alumni who will be moving to Chicago may want to visit
this website of Colfax Realty Group for information about renting
or buying an apartment, condominium or house. This company also
offers assistance in other cities (Boston, New York, Miami, etc.).
On the company's home page, choose your city in the "Relocations"
box, and on the next page, click on "Start Your Search Now" to
receive log in information.
National sublease and housing sites:
www.jdpost.com
www.nalpexchange.org
(NALP's "National Apartment Exchange" will be available in 2008)
www.apartments.com
www.rent.net
www.eattorney.com
Washington, D.C. summer housing:
American
University
http://www.american.edu/ocl/housing/summ
er_housing_conferences/intern_housing.ht ml
Catholic University
http://housing.cua.edu
George Washington University
http://gwired.gwu.edu/cllc/summer
Georgetown University Law
Center
www.law.georgetown.edu/reslife/;
or telephone (202) 662-9290.
Chicago Housing:
http://www.chicagoapartmentfinders.com/short_term
New York Housing:
New York University
www.law.nyu.edu/depts/housing/summerliving