Monthly Archives: November 2016

Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016 – EMPLOYMENT update:

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For more information and to apply to the opportunities below, please visit Symplicity

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WARNER MUSIC GROUP LATINA LEGAL DEPARTMENT SPRING 2017 INTERNSHIP

An internship with Warner Music Group will provide you with the opportunity to gain real world experience at one of the top music companies in the world. Our internship program allows you to experience on-the-job training by shadowing industry professionals in a variety of departments. Every intern is assigned a special project that will increase your understanding of how each department operates, and how you can help your department address real business needs.

Warner Music Group is proud of its intern program, the professional development we offer to our WMG students, and the intern alumni network we’ve built across the country. We are building a pool of talent to develop into future leaders of our company, and want you to join us. In addition to providing industry experience, we will ensure that you will get the most out of your internship with our organization by providing you with incredible development opportunities. These include a full orientation, a resume writing workshop, several executive speaker forums, and intern educational and career mixers that will allow you to meet interns from across the company along with industry professionals.

Please note: WMG internships are unpaid and for academic credit only! If you cannot receive academic credit, you will not be considered for an interview. *FIU Law students should check Externship requirements/eligibility.

Who: Students interested in entertainment law

Requirements: Bilingual Spanish-English

Complete details and Application: Available @ wmg.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WMGUS/job/USA—Remote-Florida/Evergreen—Spring-2017—Florida-Intern_R-002210

Contact: Kaitlin Fitzpatrick, Campus Recruiter @ Kaitlin.Fitzpatrick@wmg.com or @ 212.275.2776

 

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WRITING COMPETITION update:

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UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: AMERICAN INDIAN LAW REVIEW WRITING COMPETITION [DEADLINE: JAN. 31, 2017 BY 6 P.M. EST]

Topic: Papers will be accepted on any issue concerning American Indian law or indigenous peoples.

*Topics recently published in the American Indian Law Review will not be favored.

Awards:

  • First place: $1,000 and publication in the American Indian Law Review, an official periodical of the University of Oklahoma College of Law with international distribution.
  • Second place: $500
  • Third place: $250

Each of the winning authors will also be awarded an eBook copy of Felix S. Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law, provided by LexisNexis, and will be recognized on the masthead of the American Indian Law Review.

Submission guidelines:

  1. Double-spaced; minimum of 20/maximum of 50 pages excluding footnotes or endnotes.
  2. Citations should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (20th ed.).
  3. Body of the email must contain author’s name, social security number, school, expected year of graduation, current address, permanent address, and email address. No identifying marks (name, school, etc.) should appear on the paper itself.
  4. Entries must be unpublished, not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, and not currently entered in other writing competitions. Papers entered in the American Indian Law Review writing competition may not be submitted for consideration to any other publication until such time as winning entrants are announced.
  5. Entries may be sent as Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or PDF documents.
  • Send to: Submissions may be emailed to the American Indian Law Review@ mwaters@ou.edu (preferred method). Hard copies are acceptable, mailed to: AILR Writing Competition, American Indian Law Review, 300 Timberdell Road, Norman, OK 73019 (please send an email to mwaters@ou.edu on or before the deadline to notify the AILR that you are sending a hard copy submission). Any hardcopy entries must be postmarked by Jan. 31. Entries will be acknowledged upon receipt.

Complete details: Available @ law.ou.edu/content/writing-competition

Contact: For more information, email rebekah.martin@ou.edu or @ 405.325.2840 and 405.325.5191

SCHOLARSHIP update:

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STRIANESE PLLC EMPLOYMENT LAW SCHOLARSHIP [DEADLINE: DEC. 31, 2016]

Strianese PLLC is pleased to announce the Employment Law Scholarship for the 2016-2017 school year. The employment law attorneys at Strianese PLLC are interested in supporting students with strong academic credentials, demonstrating financial need, and an interest in attending law school and focusing on employment law issues.

Applicants will be required to demonstrate:

  1. Why they want to become an attorney.
  2. Why they are interested in studying and potentially practicing in the area of employment law.
  3. Personal commitment to working with those affected by discrimination, harassment, and sexual harassment in the workplace.

Eligibility: (1) Applicants must not have yet graduated from law school by spring semester 2017; (2) minimum GPA of 3.0

Award: $1,000 (awarded primarily based upon merit and need) to be presented in the spring semester of 2017

Requirements:

Submission components: (1) Online form; (2) transcript (must submit un-opened official transcript if selected as finalist); (3) recommendation letters; and (4) resume

Complete details and Application: Available @ charlotteemploymentlawyers.com/strianese-pllc-employment-law-scholarship/

Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016 – EMPLOYMENT update:

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NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD (NLRB): HONORS LAW CLERK [DEADLINE: NOV. 22, 2016]

Become a part of a prestigious and elite Agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law for relations between unions and employers in the private sector. The NLRB is an independent Federal agency that has daily impact on the way America’s companies, industries and unions conduct business.

This position is established as part of the NLRB Honors Program, which supports positions working in three different program areas. These positions are either on the Board or on the General Counsel-Headquarters. The purpose of this position is to provide experience that exposes the employee to the full range of agency legal practices.

Who: 3Ls who will be graduating in 2017

Where: Washington, DC

Complete details: Available @ usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/446023200

Contact: Sean Cook, Program Analyst, Office of the Director, Division of Administration @ 202.273.0061

 

1L LCLD SCHOLARS PROGRAM [OPENS: DEC. 1, 2016]

The 1L Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Scholars Program offers first-year law students from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to spend a summer working side-by-side with attorneys from LCLD Member organizations. 105 LCLD Member law firms and corporations participated in the 2016 program, collectively offering more than 220 opportunities. Opportunities for 2017 are currently being added by LCLD Members.

LCLD provides several networking opportunities for 1L LCLD Scholars, which include:

  • 1L LCLD Scholars Summit, May 23-25, 2017 in Philadelphia, PA
  • An opportunity to participate in a mock interview with attorneys from 1L LCLD Member law firms
  • Dedicated LinkedIn group for 1L LCLD Scholars

Complete details and Registration: Available @ lcldnet.org/programs/1l-scholars/candidates/

Contact: 1lscholars@lcldnet.org

 

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