NRDC is seeking a recent law school graduate to be a Frederick A.O. Schwarz Legal Fellow. This two-year position is available starting in September 2011. The Fellow will join a staff of lawyers, scientists, policy analysts, and support staff who work to protect public health and the environment through advocacy and education. He or she will work on federal litigation addressing a variety of significant environmental problems, including air and water pollution, other public health threats, threats to natural resources, and environmental injustices. NRDC represents both its own members and a range of outside clients, including neighborhood associations, regional grassroots organizations, and environmental, labor, and public health groups.

The law fellowship program is a longstanding component of ELI’s Research and Policy Division. The law fellow works closely with attorneys and other professionals to advance environmental protection by analyzing existing legal tools, developing new ones, and crafting innovative approaches to implementation. This may require considering how environmental protection is affected by other laws and policies that are related to environmental laws, e.g., those governing taxation, energy, and land use. Assignments will include legal research and writing tasks across all ELI project areas, and the law fellow may be asked to make public presentations and assist in facilitating training activities. The law fellow is expected to take on significant responsibility.

The Environmental Law and Policy Center (“ELPC”) seeks to hire a public interest attorney advocate who is a recent law school graduate for a one-year Environmental Attorney Fellow position in one of our Chicago, Des Moines or Minneapolis offices starting in Fall 2011. The Environmental Attorney Fellow will work on ELPC's environmental litigation and policy issues in the Midwest/Great Plains states and on related federal issues. The Fellow will begin with an orientation process in ELPC’s Chicago office. The Fellowship position is potentially renewable for a second year.

ELPC is the Midwest’s/Great Plains’ leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization. ELPC's major program areas include: promoting clean energy development strategies that solve global warming problems and reduce environmental degradation by encouraging renewable energy development and energy efficiency alternatives to conventional power plants; promoting innovative transportation approaches that will lead to cleaner air and more jobs; and protecting and preserving critical natural resources and improving the quality of life in our communities.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, the international human rights monitoring and advocacy organization, invites applications for its fellowship program. Human Rights Watch is known for its impartial and reliable human rights reporting on over 70 countries worldwide, its innovative and high-profile advocacy campaigns, and its success in affecting the policy of the US and other influential governments toward human rights abusers.

Fellows work full-time for one year with Human Rights Watch in New York, Washington, D.C., or London (Aryeh Neier fellows work full-time in New York or Washington, DC, and, for an additional year at the ACLU). Fellows monitor human rights developments in various countries, conduct on-site investigations, draft reports on human rights conditions, and engage in advocacy aimed at publicizing and curtailing human rights violations. Past fellows have conducted research and advocacy on numerous different issues in countries all over the world.

As a recent graduate stuck in the situation of being a deferred associate, I thought it would be useful to supply a number of alternative careers outside of a traditional attorney role for those recent graduates still looking for jobs.

The following are some areas which you may want to consider in your job search, plus some links to get you started. These may not be the most glamorous jobs in the world, or the best paying compared to big law firms, but they are jobs nonetheless. Most don't require more experience or knowledge than what should have been gained at a decent law school.

The Fellowship was established by the ACLU Board of Directors in memory of Marvin M. Karpatkin, the late General Counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union, who died in January 1975, at the age of 48. Mr. Karpatkin was one of the ACLU's most active attorneys during the 1960s and early 1970s. He left his special mark in the areas of selective service and military law. His interest in those areas grew out of his own strong opposition to the Vietnam War and his desire to help those who, younger than himself, were faced with performing military service in a war they would not support.

Racial Justice Program (RJP) attorneys and staff work to challenge racial discrimination and related issues that have a disparate impact on communities of color, particularly in the areas of criminal justice and education. In the area of criminal justice, we are dedicated to reducing the unwarranted and disproportionate targeting and incarceration of people of color. In the area of education, we seek to ensure that all children have access to quality education, regardless of race or ethnicity. Specifically, we have filed civil challenges to the inadequate provision of indigent criminal and juvenile defense, racial profiling, and disparate educational opportunities. We have also campaigned against the racially-disproportionate imposition of incarceration and school discipline.

Please note that this job posting is intended only for deferred law firm associates and other law firm associates encouraged to pursue pro bono opportunities for a temporary time period.

Southeast Louisiana Legal Services is a nonprofit civil legal aid program that represents low-income persons in Southeast Louisiana in landlord-tenant, federally subsidized housing, consumer, family, income security, employment, health care, tax, probate and education cases. We help the poor with individual and law reform cases and believe in a multi-faceted approach to advocacy for our clients. Since Katrina, we have handled many legal problems in emerging areas not traditionally handled by legal services programs, e.g., various land use matters.

Currently, we have 41 attorneys working at 4 offices in Greater New Orleans--, downtown New Orleans, Jefferson Parish, Hammond and Covington. Our largest office is in New Orleans and has 25 attorneys who specialize by department, e.g., housing, consumer, family, etc. About half of our attorneys have more than 10 years experience--mostly in poverty or public interest law. We also have many recent law school graduates who have joined us since Hurricane Katrina, who were outstanding leaders in law school and are active in our local legal communities.

The Attorney-Generalist provides support to Legal managers who are providing legal service to various Company departments as they carry out the Company's business activities. Among other matters, the Attorney-Generalist researches and analyzes legal issues, supports Legal managers as they provide advice on advertising and marketing issues, drafts legal memoranda, drafts agreements, supports execution of corporate transactions, investigates and helps respond to government agency inquiries, maintains corporate records, interacts with other Company departments, and interfaces with business associates.

Entry-level position. Must have either passed Ohio bar examination or be able to have Ohio bar license within 6 months of hire.

FindLaw, a Thomson Reuters Business is the legal industry's most effective provider of client development services. FindLaw provides law firms with Web sites to generate lucrative new business through the web and uses technology to systematically build stronger, more profitable relationships with existing clients. Attorneys can also be prominently listed on our web portal, FindLaw.com, the world's most-visited legal information site (www.findlaw.com.)

Primary Objective:
A Blog Writer for the Specialty Content group will be responsible for developing blog posts and related content in the areas of legal news and information to be posted on FindLaw customer websites.

The County of Berrien is seeking a Law Clerk. Duties: Under the supervision of a judge, researches civil and criminal motions and related legal matters; prepares memoranda regarding the facts of a case and basis of motion; prepares disposition recommendations. Serves as an ‘at-will’ employee.