Fall OCI Schedule
The final schedule for OCI is listed below. Please note that interviews may be in-person or virtual, whichever is preferred by the employer. Please note, space in the Law School is limited and will be given on a first-come-first-served basis.
- Aug 27th - Schedules were sent employers and students.
- Sept 5th - 20th - Interviews each Thursday and Friday.
Resume Collect
Resume collects follow a similar timeline with Fall OCI. After employers receive their applicant packets on August 12th, they may reach out right away to candidates and interview on their timeline. Iowa Law staff does coordinate or schedule interviews for resume collect employers.
Upcoming Career Service Programs
Resume Workshop for the Equal Justice Works Career Fair
Join Tami Diebel for a review of how to format your resume for a professional position. Bring your computer so we can workshop your resume on the spot! Let's not waste time, let's just get it done.
We will discuss the Equal Justice Works Career Fair, it's format, and how to apply to positions that you are interested in applying to. Equal Justice Works is a public interest career fair and for 1Ls is your first opportunity to apply to positions. We will discuss how to talk about grades even if you do not have any yet.
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2024 @ 12:45 pm Central
Location: Room 275 Boyd Law Building
Judge Advocate General Week
Joins us next week as members of the Armed Forces discuss career opportunities for lawyers as a Judge Advocate General.
Marine Corps Judge Advocate
Marine Judge Advocates are attorneys responsible for upholding the law and core values of the Marine Corps. They are Marine Officers first and attorneys second. Law students who wish to become Marine Corps JAGs, or are interested in learning more about careers in the Marine Corps JAG, are encouraged to attend this panel conversation. Food will be provided to those who RSVP via 12Twenty or the Outlook Invitation.
Date: Tuesday, September 3rd @ 12:40 p.m.
Location: Room 275
United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps
JAG Corps is a government law organization that defends the Army and its Soldiers in all military legal matters. It’s one of the country’s largest law firms, providing important legal advice to senior Army officials. Law students who wish to become Army JAGs, or are interested in learning more about careers in the Army JAG Corps are encouraged to attend this panel conversation.
Date: Thursday, September 4th @ 12:45 p.m.
Location: Room TBD
Webinars
Law Student Perspective on Public Interest Careers: Briefing & Discussion
Join Equal Justice Works, the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE), the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), and the NALP Foundation for a briefing on LSSSE data surrounding public interest law resources available to law students and barriers to pursuing such careers. This session will be an interactive discussion with attendees on what law schools and their partnering organizations can do to increase awareness and use of public interest resources.
Attendees will receive a summary report in advance of this event to inform them about this session’s focus. Attendees are encouraged to come prepared with questions and ideas for the panelists.
Webinar Date: Thursday, September 12, 2024 @ Noon Central
Register: Click here to register.
Last Minute Insider Tips for Crafting a Fellowship Proposal
Join Equal Justice Works Senior Program Manager Leila Stehlik-Barry in this one-hour session on how to create and submit a strong project proposal for your Design-Your-Own (DYO) Fellowship as the application deadline approaches. This is applicable for applicants, Host Organizations and law school professionals.
Webinar Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2024 @ 2:00 pm Central
Register: Click here to register.
1L Roadmap to Success in Public Interest Law
Join Equal Justice Works as we outline a roadmap to help students navigate their first year of law school. We will break down the timeline of your first year to help ensure that you land your dream summer internship and set you up on the path to success in public interest law.
Webinar Date: Thursday, September 5, 2024 @ 1:00 pm Central
Register: Click here to register.
San Diego City Attorney's Office and Paid Summer 2025 Rotating Legal Internship Program
There are a number of unique features of our Internship Program. One is that there is a direct career pathway into the Office as an attorney. Another is that interns receive a tremendous opportunity to learn about a wide array of practice areas in one internship experience by spending 5 weeks in our Criminal Division and 5 weeks in our Civil Division. For those of you who couldn’t make it or who would like to see it again, we recorded the presentation and you can view it at the following link: Link To Video.
There’s one week left to apply for our Summer 2025 Legal Internship Program so if you haven’t already, be sure to get your application in by September 4th. Here’s the link where you can find our job posting—be sure to apply via the link in the job posting: Apply Here
Fellowship Opportunities
Chapman and Cutler LLP's Maynard H. Jackson Jr. Scholarship 2024
Chapman is pleased to offer the seventh annual Chapman and Cutler LLP Maynard H. Jackson Jr. Scholarship. The recipient of the award will receive a $10,000 scholarship to be used to cover law school expenses. Applications are due by September 13, 2024. Students can access the application here or see the attached file.
Equal Justice Works Design-Your-Own Fellowships
Equal Justice Works is currently accepting applications for 2025-2027 Design-Your-Own Fellowships, and we would like to encourage your organization to apply to host a Fellow. Our application deadline is September 10, 2024, for fellowships to begin in September 2025.
Equal Justice Works DYO Fellowships provide financial and other forms of support to lawyers working on innovative legal projects throughout the U.S. The two-year Fellowships offer non-profit organizations working on legal issues (“Host Organizations”) up to $63,500 annually for the Fellow’s salary. Fellows have learning, networking and professional development opportunities throughout their Fellowship. Equal Justice Works offers Fellows loan repayment assistance for qualifying student loans during the Fellowship term.
To learn more about Design-Your-Own (DYO) Fellowships and available funding, we encourage you to:
Fellowship applications are the result of close collaboration between your organization and the Fellowship candidate(s) with whom you choose to apply. All applications will be assessed according to the alignment of the proposed project, the host organization, and the individual candidate. Additional details may be found in the Host Organization Guide, FAQs and webinar recording.
Immigrant Justice Corp 2025 Fellowship
Each year IJC awards Justice Fellowships to recent law graduates from around the country – individuals with tremendous talent, promise, and a demonstrated commitment to providing legal services for low-income people and immigrants.
IJC trains Justice Fellows to become experts in immigration law and pairs them with leading non-profit legal services providers and community-based organizations. IJC matches selected Fellows with our partnering host organizations based on the applicant’s experience and interest, gaps in services within the community, location interests, and partnering host organizations’ needs.
Justice Fellows represent immigrants in an array of immigration matters including:
- Removal defense
- Affirmative asylum applications
- Relief available to juveniles and victims of crime, domestic violence, or human trafficking
Justice Fellow General Eligibility Requirements:
- Applicants may be 3Ls or currently enrolled in an LLM program, graduating law school by the spring of 2025
- Applicants must have graduated no earlier than Spring 2023
- At the time of selection must have authorization to work in the United States for two years
How to Apply: Click here for the application instructions.
Application Deadline: The deadline to apply for this fellowship is Sunday, October 20, 2024.
Ford Foundation Fellowship in Nonprofit Law
The Ford Foundation Fellowship in Nonprofit Law permits a Fellow each year to spend a year in residence at the Ford Foundation’s Office of Legal Services in New York, working with the General Counsel and staff of attorneys to provide legal advice on grantmaking, operations, governance, human resources, and investments. The Fellow will also work closely with the foundation’s Grants Compliance department and engage with program and operations staff in New York and ten global offices on a variety of initiatives and special projects.
A Fellowship at the Ford Foundation will provide a recent law school graduate with exposure to an unusually wide variety of domestic and international legal issues encountered by private foundations operating globally.
How to Apply: Application Information: A link to the application form and requirements can be found here. The term of the Ford Foundation Fellowship is one year. The Fellows will receive a salary of $100,000 plus benefits.
Application Deadline: Wednesday, March 5, 2025
National Center on Philanthropy and the Law (NCPL) Fellowship in Nonprofit Law
The NCPL Fellowship in Nonprofit Law permits one Fellow each year to spend a year in residence at a nonprofit organization. The 2025-2026 Fellow will work closely with senior staff and staff attorneys at Lawyers Alliance for New York (Lawyers Alliance) who have practice specialties that will expose the Fellow to a broad range of disciplines that address the legal needs of nonprofit organizations. Given the varied nature of the legal work performed by Lawyers Alliance and the diverse group of nonprofit organizations it represents, the NCPL Fellow will experience the widest possible exposure to representing nonprofit organizations on interesting and complex legal projects. These legal challenges will enable the NCPL Fellow to develop relevant skills to the maximum extent. An article about the NCPL Fellowship in the Autumn 2021 Lawyers Alliance newsletter can be found here.
How to Apply: A link to the application form and requirements can be found here. The term of the Fellowship is one year. Fellows are funded annually at a salary of $70,000 plus benefits.
Application Deadline: Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Curated Job Opportunities
Entry Level Legal Job Postings
Click here to review the weekly open entry-level job postings in various locations and legal fields.
2025 Summer Legal Job Postings
Click here to review a listing of open summer 2025 job postings in various locations and legal fields. This list also includes opportunities for 1Ls.
Weekly Open State Judicial Clerkship Job Posting
Click here to review the weekly open state clerkship job postings.
Additional Resources
AccessLex Student Events
You, your students and your alumni are welcome to attend one of our new webinars on the Biden Administration’s Student Loan Debt Relief Plan to hear about how it impacts law students and current borrowers. We’ll share a brief overview of the plan followed by a Q&A with one of our Accredited Financial Counselors®. Feel free to send them questions in advance and they will answer them live!
In addition, the What You Need to Know About Student Loan Debt Relief page — an all-inclusive resource for student loan borrowers as they navigate returning to repayment, the PSLF Limited Waiver and now the Student Loan Debt Relief Plan.
Arizona Handbook
The Government Honors & Internship Handbook (for law students and graduates) and the Public Policy Handbook (for graduate and undergraduate students interested in public policy analysis and implementation) have been in publication since 2001 and 2005. The Handbooks provide students and graduates with resources to 475+ government agencies, think tanks, and advocacy groups, offering nearly 2,000 intern, fellowship, and post-graduate positions each year.
Each opportunity is set forth in a detailed Handbook entry, describing the employer’s mission and organizational structure, position description, desired applicant qualifications, deadlines and the application and selection process.
You may access the guide online at http://arizonahandbooks.com/u/lawcareerservicesuiowaedu.
The Password is: IowaLaw2022
Attorney Jobs
Attorney Jobs is a website that the Iowa Law Career Services Office has subscribed to so our students and recent graduates can use the site at no cost to you! Attorney Jobs provides attorney jobs, in-house counsel jobs and law student internships around the US. In the daily or weekly email, you will see a snippet of the positions and the number of years’ experience required; look for 0-3 years if you are a graduating 3L, or law student jobs if you are a 1L or 2L. We would also appreciate your feedback on this service, as we want to provide you the best options!
Click Here to access this job site. If you have questions on how to register for the site, please contact Tami Diebel.
The Bar Program
Did you miss Dean Crain's presentation about the bar exam earlier today? The recording of the program is now available to view on-demand.
Click here to view the presentation.
BradTraverse Job Board
Username: LawHawks
Password: IowaLaw2021
The Brad Traverse Group listserv publishes internship and post-graduate job opportunities on Capitol Hill and the Washington, DC area.
Click here to access the job board.
Drake Law/The University of Iowa College of Law Sublet Finder
Drake University Law School and University of Iowa College of Law have established this page to facilitate connections between students. The institutions play no role in the contracting of the sublease and make no guarantees about the condition of the housing.
Click here to access the housing board.
Georgia Intellectual Property Alliance Job Portal
The Georgia Intellectual Property Alliance (“GIPA”) has launched a new IP Career Portal to help law students, PhD students, science-based students, and IP associates find new positions in the intellectual property practice.Building on our success with the Southeastern Intellectual Property Job Fair, GIPA seeks to leverage our network of employers and higher education contacts to create a job board and portal that facilitates easy lateral movement among attorneys and patent agents.
Likewise, many job posts will be entry level positions for attorneys and patent agents.
Click here to access the Career Portal.
Intercollegiate Job Bank
The University of Iowa College of Law Office of Career Services participates in the online Intercollegiate Job Bank with over 130 other law schools from across the country. Participating law schools upload newsletters with job listings to this job bank.
The following is the login information with the new password:
intercollegiatejobbank.com
Password: 2024ICJB
Opportunities in Public Affairs
The latest issue of Opportunities in Public Affairs, with hundreds of sought-after jobs in the Washington, DC area all focused on Jobs in Government Affairs & Policy, Public Relations & Advocacy, Media & Journalism, and Entry Level Jobs & Internships. These jobs are on Capitol Hill, in non-profits, think tanks, institutions, the government and in corporations and professional firms.
Click here to login to the OPA website.
Public Defender Mentorship Program
The Iowa State Public Defender will offer a Monday Mentors program beginning at 4:30 p.m. until 5:30 or later if warranted. It will take place every Monday thereafter at the same time and via the same zoom link provided below. The idea is to provide a time for young public defenders, contract attorneys, and aspiring law students to ask questions whether related to a specific case, criminal defense in general, or career questions, and obtain feedback and guidance from others similarly situated and from defense attorneys with years of experience. Breakout rooms will be provided as needed to facilitate communication. We hope you take advantage of this program. If you are interested in public defense, and cannot make the Monday meetings, please reach out to Kimberly DePalma at kdepalma@spd.state.ia.us.
Date: Every Monday at 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Click here for the Zoom link.
Remote Interview Space
If you have a remote interview coming up and need space in the College of Law, the Career Services Office can assist you in finding space. Please notify the Career Services Office as soon as possible if you anticipate needing a remote interview space.
Vermont Law Judicial Clerkship Guide
You may access the guide online at https://www.vermontlaw.edu/careers/judicial-clerkship.
The Username is: Eastern and the Password is: Hemlock.
Many thanks,
AJ Finch
The University of Iowa College of Law
