Upcoming Iowa Law Programs
Resume and Cover Letter Lab
Join the CSO crew as we help you with your resume and cover letters for OCI and Non-OCI job applications. Learn best practices for highlighting the transferrable skills you have already mastered to showcase your contributions to a future employer. In this Resume/Cover Letter Lab, you will be actively working on your resume, thinking through your past volunteer and employment experiences to re-frame your accomplishments. Have your resume ready to access as we work in small group break-out rooms. Please RSVP to the Outlook Invite!
Dates: Thursday, December 29, 2022 @ 12:30 pm
Virtual Program: Click here for the zoom link.
Spring Externship with the Iowa Supreme Court
This externship is located at the Scott County Courthouse in Davenport, Iowa where Justice Thomas Waterman maintains an office when the court is not in session in Des Moines. Students will perform appellate research and writing projects as directed by Justice Waterman, and will attend appellate arguments at the Judicial Branch Building in Des Moines. Students may also have the chance to observe trial proceedings at the county courthouse.
Requirements: Applicants must be in the top 1/3 of the class to apply. This externship is available for 6 or 9 credits. For 6 credits, 14 hours (2 days) minimum on-site per week; for 9 credits, 25 hours (3 days) minimum on-site per week. Fieldwork credits are pass/fail, and externs earn two credits graded for the class. Interested candidates should make an appointment via Calendly (https://calendly.com/jttai) with Professor June Tai.
Application Deadline: Tuesday, January 3, 2022
Career Events & Programs
Cutting Sign to the Legal Profession Free Career Program for Native American Students
For millennia, Indigenous peoples have used focused attention and a deep understanding of their surroundings, the behaviors of humans, birds and four legged creatures, and clear intention to track and find people and animals. Today this practice is generally referred to as cutting sign or sign cutting.
Finding your place in the many and varied workplaces available to recent law school graduates requires the same kind of focused attention, understanding and clear intention that Indigenous peoples bring to cutting sign. This program is intended to introduce you to the basic skills you will need and some of the opportunities you will have as you begin this next phase of your journey in the law.
This event will help Native law students break into the legal profession and provide on-campus interview opportunities for employers. Discussion topics will include on-campus interviews, resume/cover letter and mock interview workshops, how to prepare and apply for clerkships, as well as in-house, firm, governmental and other legal positions. There will also be networking opportunities with Native lawyers from around the country.
This program is led by career professionals from the universities of Idaho, Utah, and Washington.
Dates: February 17 - 18, 2023.
How to register: Click here to register for this program.
Wilson Sonsini 1L Life Sciences Summit
Home to one of the largest life sciences practices in the U.S., Wilson Sonsini is the premier provider of legal services to thousands of innovation-focused life sciences enterprises worldwide. The firm is excited to announce its inaugural 1L Life Sciences Summit. The summit will bring together law students from across the country with interest and/or experience in the life sciences. The event will be held in our Boston, Massachusetts office. The summit will introduce 1L students to the firm’s diversity of life sciences practice areas to help students explore how they can leverage their life sciences backgrounds and interests in their future legal careers.
First-year law students enrolled at ABA-accredited law schools are eligible to apply. Pre-law students with life sciencesbackgrounds who have been admitted to ABA-accredited law schools will also be considered.
Dates: March 23 - 24, 2023.
How to register: Click here to register for this program.
Fellowships/Scholarship Opportunities
We are documenting as many as we can find or are made aware. This includes Summer and Post-Graduate fellowship opportunities. If you would like us to find information for fellowships in specific a geographical locations, organizations or firm, please let us know.
Click here to access the list.
Reminders
Law Firm Holiday Events
This winter break, many law firms will hold a “Home for the Holidays” reception or open houses. We are documenting as many as we can find or are made aware. If you would like us to find information for events in specific cities that are not included in this list, please let us know.
Click here for the list.
Curated Job Opportunities
Post Graduate Weekly Job Posting
Click here to review the weekly open post graduate job postings in various locations and legal fields.
Summer 2023 Weekly Job Posting
Click here to review the weekly open summer 2023 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
2023-24 The University of Iowa College of Law - Federal Court Judicial Clerkship Application Process Toolkit
This guide details how and when to apply for federal judicial clerkships at and how to research federal courts. You can access the guide by clicking here.
2022-23 The University of Iowa College of Law - State Court Clerkship Application Guide
Guide for researching and applying for clerkships with state courts. You can access the guide by clicking here.
2021 -22 The University of Iowa College of Law Job Search Toolkit
This comprehensive guide contains a collection of various websites and to search for both Public Interest and Private Sector Internships and Post-Graduate Employment. You can access the guide by clicking here.
2022 - 23 The University of Iowa College of Law Resume and Cover Letter Toolkit
This comprehensive guide contains instructions on resumes, cover letter, writing samples, transcripts, and references.
Please click here to download.
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
AttorneyJobsinUSA.com
AttorneyJobsinUSA.com 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! AttorneyJobsinUSA.com provides attorney jobs, in house counsel jobs and law student jobs 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 since this is a new service for Iowa Law, and 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:
https://jobbank.law.byu.edu/
Password: lawjobs456
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.
User Id: Finch7772
Password: Finch
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.
Vermont Law Judicial Clerkship Guide
You may access the guide online at http://www.vermontlaw.edu/careers/judicial-clerkship-guide.
The Username is: American and the Password is: Ash.
Many thanks,
AJ Finch
The University of Iowa College of Law
