Attention 2L's and 3L's: Fall OCI Bidding Opens Today!
Fall Hybrid OCI
Registration for Fall Hybrid OCI is currently open! Interviews will be each Thursday and Friday, beginning Sept. 5th through 20th. Fall interviews are comprised of preselect and Ranked Interest Selection candidates. Employers may pre-select 50% of the students they interview, and up to five alternates. After preselection, the remaining 50% of the schedule is filled by ranked interest selection: students who applied to interview and are highly interested in the employer. If you plan to interview through OCI, exceptions cannot be made to this policy. 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.
Fall Interviewing Timeline
- June 28th - July 31st - Employer registration period.
- Aug 1st - Midnight Aug 11th - Student bidding period.
- Aug 12th - Employers receive applicant packets.
- Aug 12th - Aug 20th - Employers enter selections on 12twenty.
- Aug 21st - Aug 23rd - Student interview accept/decline period.
- Aug 27th - Schedules to 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.
Office of Career Services News
Please note that the weekly newsletter will not be emailed out for the next two weeks. We’ll be resuming our regular updates at the start of the semester. Specific information from Career Services will still be emailed and posted on 12Twenty.
Recorded Summer Career Services Virtual Programs
Acing Your Interviews
Did you miss this program which happened on June 18, 2024? Not to worry, as the program was recorded. Click on the link below to learn the fundamentals of interview prep and to workshop your answer to one of the most common questions you are likely to face. Start preparing now for law firm pre-recruiting interviews, OCI interviews, or any job interview at all! This is the second workshop in a series to lead into this year’s Summer Recruitment Season.
Click here to view the recording.
Heavy Cases? How to Cope
Are you working in an area in which you’re dealing with stressful, emotional, and/or traumatic cases or topics? While clients are, of course, most affected by their circumstances, difficult situations can sometimes take a toll on those working to support clients. Sam Ramsey presents a discussion about how to cope with emotions such cases might invoke, as well as how to create boundaries to protect your wellness.
Click here to view the recording and click here to review the handout.
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.
Deadline: The deadline to apply for this fellowship is Sunday, October 20, 2024.
Justice Catalyst Fellowship Webinar
Justice Catalyst administers one-year, potentially renewable, project-based fellowships for graduating law students, or graduates up to two years out of law school. The Fellowship supports innovative social impact work at nonprofit organizations as well as unions, plaintiff-side/public interest law firms, and government agencies.
They will be hosting a webinar info session about the Justice Catalyst fellowship application process on August 15, 2024 at 4pm ET. The webinar is open to prospective applicants, host organizations, career advisors, and anyone else interested in learning about the application process and asking questions. Registration is available here.
If you are unable to attend, the recording will be posted at https://www.justicecatalyst.org/fellowships/jc-fellowships, along with the forthcoming prospectus form, information sheet, FAQs, application deadlines, and more.
They are also excited to continue our collaboration with COSAL on the Jonathan W. Cuneo COSAL/Justice Catalyst Fellowship, which aims to enable new lawyers to pursue antitrust litigation as a crucial tool for accountability within the U.S. legal system, with a particular focus on facilitating the advancement of underrepresented individuals within the antitrust field, emphasizing inclusivity, fairness, and equal opportunity.
Details at: https://www.justicecatalyst.org/fellowships/jc-cosal-fellowship
Upcoming Non-Iowa Law Events
NACC Child Welfare Law Career Fair
Join NACC’s 2nd annual Child Welfare Law Career Fair! The Career Fair promotes positions in child welfare law offices and agencies for law students, recent grads, new attorneys, and persons with lived experience in foster care. Additionally, the Career Fair offers the opportunity to network with NACC members and law office leaders from across the country. Networking, resume-swapping, and scheduling interviews will occur during the Sunday 4:00PM – 6:00PM Career Fair.
Students/prospective candidates will be responsible for providing their resumes onsite to employers and scheduling interviews. As we get closer to the event, you will receive an email with all the information you will need to be prepared including travel information, a roster of open positions and organizations, and on-site instructions. Participants are welcome to contact applicants or employers before the event, or simply introduce themselves at the Career Fair.
Sunday, August 11, 2024
4:00PM – 6:00PM
Hyatt Regency
Salt Lake City, UT
To participate in the career fair, please reserve a free ticket and complete the registration form.
Curated Job Opportunities
2025 Summer Legal Job Postings
Click here to review a listing of open summer 2024 job postings in various locations and legal fields.
Entry Level Legal Job Postings
Click here to review the weekly open entry-level job postings in various locations and legal fields.
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 http://www.vermontlaw.edu/careers/judicial-clerkship-guide.
The Username is: Eastern and the Password is: Hemlock.
Many thanks,
AJ Finch
The University of Iowa College of Law
