Job Fairs  |  Conferences

Job fairs and conferences play a critical role in helping public service students to find summer and post graduate jobs, and to stay on top of timely issues. They play an equally critical role in helping those students to rejoin and build their community, and to reconnect with the ideals, activities and goals that brought them to law school.

Job fairs give public service organizations and students an opportunity to meet each other and explore employment opportunities. Conferences offer presentations and activities that not only help students to build sophistication regarding key public interest issues, but also give students, practitioners and academicians an opportunity to come together, share ideas and offer support for shared goals. While job fairs and conferences are two different animals, there is a great deal of crossover between them.

Job Fairs
There are three job fairs in the Northeast that law students interested in public interest and related areas should seriously consider:

Public Interest Career Reception
August 30, 2007
NYC Bar Association
42 West 44th Street
New York, New York

Equal Justice Works Career Fair and Conference
October 6-7, 2007
Omni Shoreham Hotel
Washington, D.C.
Visit equaljusticeworks.org for more information.
Browse employers.
Orientation Session for BLS students TBA.

NYU Public Interest Legal Career Fair     
February 7-8, 2008
NYU Law School
New York, New York
View 2007 Orientation Video (Windows Media)
View 2007 Orientation Packet (PDF)
Visit https://its.law.nyu.edu/pilc/lcfs/ for information about the Fair and to register
Registration begins: November 1
Registration deadline: December 5 at 3:00 PM ¹
Application Deadline: January 9 at 3:00 PM ²

Deadline for Submitting Your Resume (After You Have Registered)

If you registered before 3:00 PM on December 5, you may upload your resume to a maximum of 40 employers through 3:00 PM on Wednesday, January 9, 2008. You are strongly advised, however, to upload most of your applications prior to January 1. After Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 9:00 AM, applications are limited to 15. In addition, employers begin reviewing resumes January 1, 2008.

You may include a cover letter if you wish, but your resume and cover letter must be uploaded in one document.

For more information, go to https://its.law.nyu.edu/PILC/LCFS/index.cfm?fuseaction=Students.StudentOverview

Conferences
Students may want to consider the following local conferences

Peggy Browning National Law Students Workers' Rights Conference
October 19-20, 2007
The National Labor College, George Meany Center
Silver Spring, Maryland
Please see the Peggy Browning Fund site for more information.

Robert Cover Retreat
February 29 - March 2, 2008
Peterboro NH
Visit www.law.yale.edu/news/coverretreat.asp for more information.

Rebellious Lawyering Conference
February 22-24, 2008
Yale Law School
New Haven, CT
Visit islandia.law.yale.edu/reblaw/ for more information.