Monthly Archives: January 2016

Career planning networking EVENT UPDATE:

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29TH ANNUAL ROBERT M. COVER RETREAT: WINNING THE SOCIAL JUSTICE RACE – LAWYERING TOWARD A REVOLUTION [FEB. 26-28, 2016]

Cover Retreat Flier

Complete details: Available @ law.yale.edu/29th-annual-robert-m-cover-retreat

Contact: For more information about the 2016 Retreat, please contact the student organizer Sherbune Paul (New York Law School) @ RobertMCoverRetreat@gmail.com

DCBA: 5TH ANNUAL BENCH & BAR CONFERENCE [FEB. 26, 2016]

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Complete details and Registration: Available @ dadecountybar.org/2016-bench-bar-conference/

Career planning networking EVENT UPDATE:

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AIPLA: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE – CONNECTING THE CLASSROOM TO REAL LIFE PRACTICE [FEB. 4, 2016]

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AIPLA is proud to present online programming geared at providing “practice ready” training and education for law students. The online programming is administered in partnership with the participating law schools and with AIPLA’s Education Committee, New Lawyers Committee, Law Students Committee, and Online Programs Committee. This series series will use a live webinar format.

How Do I Protect That? A Mock Client Interview Identifying Protectable IP in Terms of Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Trade Secrets: The presentation will address the practical intersections of the various intellectual property regimes. Clients, potential clients, acquaintances, and even family members often have IP law questions related to their products/inventions/businesses, but do not understand the distinctions between each different type of intellectual property. The lawyer’s job is to educate and to focus the discussion, identifying pressing issues in separate areas of intellectual property law. The program is designed as a mock client intake interview, illustrating how different IP law issues present themselves in the real world. No CLE credit available.

Speakers:

  • Vishal Patel, Thompson & Knight, LLP
  • Trisha Singh, DaVita RX
  • Gary Sorden, Klemchuk, LLP

Where: 4 P.M. – 5 P.M. Eastern

Complete details and Registration: Available @ aipla.org/learningcenter/live_webinars/Pages/The-Education-Committee’s-Law-School-Online-Programming-SubCommittee-presents.aspx

  • Registration: *FREE to AIPLA student members

 

CSUSA: 2016 MID-WINTER MEETING [FEB. 11-13, 2016]

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Complete details and Registration: Available @ csusa.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=648956&group

Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 – Employment opportunities update:

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

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USAO SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA – LAW INTERN PROGRAM [DEADLINE: FEB. 2, 2016]

The USAO for the Southern District of Florida is responsible for investigating and prosecuting federal crimes and representing the U.S. in civil matters in the district. The office also represents the U.S. in appeals before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Interns are assigned to one section within the Civil or Criminal Divisions of the office for the duration of the semester. Within their respective sections, Interns receive a variety of assignments and have the opportunity to work with numerous AUSAs. The goal of the Office is to introduce interns to the federal legal system, to develop and refine their legal research and writing skill, and above all to make their time at the office enjoyable and worthwhile.

Interns in the SDFL will assist AUSAs with trial preparation, legal research and drafting of court pleadings suitable for filing in the U.S. District Court. Interns will also work with AUSAs on a variety of subject matters within the section to which they are assigned. Interns are strongly encouraged to attend and observe court proceedings and to attend office training programs.

Who: 1L (second semester) 2L and 3L law students with strong academic record. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen. Applicant must pass a required background check due to the nature of the work performed at the USAO (this check can take up to three months to complete). There are 8-16 volunteers projected.

Where: Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach, FL

When: 240 hours, 8-10 weeks (Summer)

Requirements:

Submission components: (1) Cover letter (include location of preference), (2) resume, (3) transcript (official or unofficial), (4) legal writing sample (5-10 pages), and (5) dates of availability.

In the subject line include the semester applying for, Summer Internship.

It is best to send all documents in .PDF format.

Complete details: Available @ justice.gov/legal-careers/job/law-student-volunteer-academic-year-26

Additional information: Available @ justice.gov/usao-sdfl

 

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SCHOLARSHIP update:

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SARASOTA COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION (SCBA) ANNUAL RICHARD R. GARLAND DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP [DEADLINE: JAN. 30, 2016]

As always, the SCBA program brings aboard a student or multiple students (depending on number of applicants and number of participating employers as well as available funds) for paid summer positions in Sarasota County.

Eligibility: While this is an amazing opportunity, the challenge of affording housing for the summer typically limits applicants to only those that already have some sort of tie to the Sarasota area such that they have a place to stay nearby. The end goal is to find applicants who have an interest in living and working in Sarasota and who will help increase the diversity of our Bar Association.

Award: On top of their paid positions, these students will receive a scholarship at the end of the summer in an amount up to $5,000. They cannot guarantee $5,000 for each student but they try very hard to fundraise in order to provide that amount.

Complete details and Application for download:

Available @ fiulawcareer.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/SCBAR_ScholarshipApplication2016.pdf

WRITING COMPETITION update:

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AMERICAN INDIAN LAW REVIEW WRITING COMPETITION [DEADLINE: JAN. 29, 2016 BY 6 P.M. EST]

Eligibility: The competition is open to students enrolled in J.D. programs at accredited law schools in the United States and Canada as of the competition deadline. Editors of the American Indian Law Review are not eligible to compete.

Topic: Papers will be accepted on any issue concerning American Indian law or indigenous peoples.  However, topics recently published in the American Indian Law Review will not be favored. 

  • Standards: Papers will be judged on the basis of originality and timeliness of topic, knowledge and use of applicable legal principles, proper and articulate analysis of the issues, use of authorities and extent of research, logic and reasoning in analysis, ingenuity and ability to argue by analogy, clarity and organization, correctness of format and citations, grammar and writing style, and strength and logic of conclusions.

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: $250Each of the three 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) Minimum of 20 double-spaced pages / maximum of 50 double-spaced pages excluding footnotes or endnotes; (2) all citations should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (20th ed.); (3) the body of the email must contain the author’s name, social security number, school, expected year of graduation, current address, permanent address, and email address. Inquiries may be replied to by email. (4) No identifying marks (name, school, etc.) should appear on the paper itself; (5) all entries must have only one author; (6) entries must be unpublished, not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, and not currently entered in other writing competitions; (7) 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; and (8) any entries not fully in accord with required form will be ineligible for consideration.

  • Send to: Submissions may be emailed (preferred method) to the American Indian Law Review @ mwaters@ou.edu. Entries may be sent as Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or PDF documents.

Hardcopies 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 hardcopy submission.

Entries will be acknowledged upon receipt. All entries become the property of the American Indian Law Review.

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

Contact:

Email: marcelo.pendleton@gmail.com
Phone numbers: 405.325.2840 and 405.325.5191
Fax: 405.325.6282