Online Career Resources

Resources for Law Firm Information/Employment Databases

Job Search and Internship Sites

ABANET: Internship & Career Opportunities for Law Studentshttp://www.abanet.org/lsd/jobopp.html
Affirmative Action Register: Recruitment service directed to females, minorities, veterans, and disabled persons, as well as all other employment candidates. http://www.aar-eeo.com
American Corporate Counsel Association: Contains a database of employment opportunities for in-house counsel.http://jobs.acca.com
America’s Job Bank: A serious networking tool and a component of Career OneStop http://ajb.dni.us
Attorney Jobs: A subscription is required to view listings but there is a Westlaw discount availablehttp://www.attorneyjobs.com
BYU Intercollegiate Job Bank: Host site for job postings from across the U.S. Law Schools that participate update the job postings at the first of each month. Only students that attend or are alumni of participating schools have access. Contact Debbie Foley in the Career Services Office for the username and password. https://www.law2.byu.edu/career_services/jobbank/
Counsel Net: A large attorney network with legal job listings http://www.counsel.net
Findlaw.com: Use their database to browse legal jobs or submit your resume. This site also contains the “Greedy Associates” message board, but take information with a grain of salt. http://careers.findlaw.com
Heiros Gamos: An outstanding employment resource site!http://www.hg.org/employment.html
Internships USA: This site contains information on a wealth of internship opportunities, including internships with prosecutor's offices in nearly 100 cities nationwide; internships in international affairs, woment's rights, city and county attorney's offices, sports law, education law, and green (environmental) law; and federal internships, government internships in law and policy, and human rights internships. To access these opportunities, go to http://www.internships-usa.com and click on "Internships for Law Students." Contact Debbie Foley in Career Services for username and password.
Job-Hunt: Maintains a page dedicated to law and law enforcement job hunters http://www.job-hunt.org/law.shtml
LawCrossing: Want to look at even more jobs? Check out the jobs on LawCrossing. Access is free to current MC Law students until April 30, 2013. Current students received via e-mail the current log in information and promotion code. If you have misplaced this information, contact Debbie Foley or Sherry Johnson in the Career Services Office. MC Law alumni must pay the prevailing regular published rate and therefore do not have a promotion code; just follow the online instructions. Have one of the following credit cards available when you register: Visa, MC, Amex, or Discover. You will then receive an email from Law Crossing with an address to copy and paste into your web browser to activate your account. Follow the instructions there concerning choosing your username and password.
Law Jobs: Also a helpful employment center http://www.lawjobs.com
Law Match: Efficient employment solutions http://www.lawmatch.com
Legal Employ: Extensive legal employment search site http://www.legalemploy.com
Legal Recruiter: Maintains listings of open positions across the globe http://www.legalrecruiter.com
Legal Services from LexisNexis
Wall Street Journal Career Center: WSJ’s Executive Career Site with job postings, tools, tips, and articles http://www.careerjournal.com
Wet Feet: Provides both job and internship listings. In addition, the site offers various research tools on private firms, salaries, and practice area. The free membership also provides career newsletters, discussion boards, and free career guides. http://www.wetfeet.com

Law Firm Information

Legal Forum: An interesting site, formerly called Power of Attorney, that provides extensive links to law firms, government agencies, law schools, and bar associations nationwide. http://www.eaglelink.com/power
LexisNexis Martindale Directory Resources:
Law Firm directory from Martindale.
NALP: The official site of the National Association for Law Placement provides information on recruiting trends, placement statistics, law firm information, law schools and much more. http://www.nalp.org
NALP Directory of Legal Employers: Contains a wealth of information about member employers, including demographics, practice areas, billable hour requirements, salary and benefits. Mostly larger law firms, but also contains some public sector employers. http://www.nalpdirectory.com

Judicial Clerkships

American Bankruptcy Institute: Provides good information and links for an overview of bankruptcy judges and clerkship opportunities http://www.abiworld.org
The Federal Judiciary Online: This page, maintained by “Internships-USA,” is designed to give students access to the addresses of the federal bench. The addresses of over 2000 members of the federal judiciary are accessible from this site. http://www.internships-usa.com/fedct/fedctlink.htm
Federal Magistrate Law Clerks: Current and upcoming vacancies in the Federal Magistrate Courts with a searchable database. http://www.uscourts.gov/Careers/SearchIFrame.aspx
Judicial Clerkships: Everything you ever wanted to know about a judicial clerkship.

http://www.judicialclerkships.com
Online System for Clerkship Application and Review (OSCAR): Allows applicants to select the federal judges for whom they wish to apply and then build and submit their applications online. When the application process is complete, the judges can log on and begin the hiring process. http://oscar.dcd.uscourts.gov

Environmental

Air & Waste Management Association: Includes links to online career center and sponsored awards and scholarships.http://www.awma.org
Alliance for Sustainability: Information about maintaining a sustainable lifestyle with available volunteer and internship opportunities. http://www.allianceforsustainability.net
American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy:Includes a job database. http://www.aceee.org
Center for Health, Environment, and Justice:http://www.chej.org
Clean Water Action: Includes volunteer opportunities and a job database. http://www.cleanwateraction.org
Earth Share: Earth Share is a nationwide network of the country's most respected environmental and conservation organizations and offers a host of internship opportunities as well as links to environmental jobs.http://www.earthshare.org
Soil & Water Conservation Society: Includes a job board.http://www.swcs.org
Water Environment Federation: Non-profit technical and educational organization aiming to preserve and enhance the global water environment; site includes job postings.http://www.wef.org

Entertainment/Sports

CNN: http://www.cnn.com/jobs
Disney: Search the Walt Disney Company for internship or career opportunities. http://corporate.disney.go.com/careers/index.html
Entertainment Law Jobs: Network of Entertainment Professionals. http://www.showbizjobs.com
Online Sports Career Center Job Listings: http://www.onlinesports.com/pages/careercenter.html

MPRE INFORMATION

MPRE (Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination):Required for admission to the bar in almost all U.S. jurisdictions.
www.ncbex.org

Federal Agencies on the Web

U.S. Air Force JAG:

http://www.afjag.af.mil/careers/index.asp
U.S. Army JAG: http://www.jagcnet.army.mil
U.S. Attorneys' Offices: Provides links to U.S. Attorneys' Offices throughout the United States: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/employment/index.html
U.S. Census Bureau:

http://www.census.gov/hrd/www/
CIA Legal Honor’s Program: The CIA's Legal Honors Program provides a three-year introduction to the practice of national security law. The Office of the General Counsel handles legal issues relating to foreign intelligence and counterintelligence activities, international terrorism, and other international security issues. Information on the program, including application information, is available. https://www.cia.gov/offices-of-cia/general-counsel/careers/honors-attorneys-program.html
U.S. Coast Guard Attorney Program: http://www.uscg.mil/legal/recruit/Career_Home.asp
Commodity Futures Trading Commission:http://www.cftc.gov/ohr/ohrvacsum.htm
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency:http://www.occ.treas.gov/jobs/lawjob.htm
Congressional Budget Office:

https://www.cbo.gov/about/our-careers
U.S. Customs Service:

http://www.ice.gov/careers/
U.S. Department of Agriculture: http://www.usda.gov
U.S. Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov
U.S. Department of Energy: http://chris.doe.gov/jobs/index.cfm
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:http://www.hhs.gov/jobs
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development:http://www.hud.gov
U.S. Department of the Interior:http://www.doi.gov/doijobs/doijobs.html
U.S. Department of Justice: http://www.usdoj.gov/eoir/admindiv.htm
U.S. Department of Justice: Office of Attorney Management & Recruitment: http://www.usdoj.gov/oarm
U.S. Department of Labor: http://www.dol.gov
U.S. Department of State: http://www.state.gov
Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.epa.gov
Federal Aviation Administration: http://www.faa.gov/jobs
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation: http://www.fbi.gov
U.S. Federal Communications Commission: http://www.fcc.gov/jobs
U.S. Federal Elections Commission: http://www.fec.gov
Federal Emergency Management Agency:

http://www.fema.gov/careers
Federal Jobs Digest: http://www.jobsfed.com
Federal Trade Commission: www.ftc.gov/ftc/oed/hrmo/jobops.shtm
General Accounting Office: http://www.gao.gov/jobopp.htm
Government Honors & Internship Handbook – We subscribe to this handbook which lists public interest and governmental internships across the United States. It is updated on a daily basis. You will need a user name and password to access the information. Please contact Debbie Foley in the Career Services Office. http://www.law.arizona.edu/career/honorshandbook.cfm
Internal Revenue Service: http://www.jobs.irs.gov
International Trade Commission: http://www.usitc.gov/employment/positions.htm
U.S. Marine JAG: http://www.marineofficer.com
U.S. Navy JAG: http://www.jag.navy.mil/
Office of Management & Budget:http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/recruitment/index.html
Office of Personnel Management: http://www.opm.gov
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC):http://www.opic.gov
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office:

http://usptocareers.gov/Pages/PEPositions/jobs.aspx
U.S. Postal Service: http://www.usps.gov/employment
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: http://www.sec.gov/jobs
U.S. Sentencing Commission: http://www.ussc.gov/jobs.htm
U.S. Social Security Administration:http://www.ssa.gov/jobssa/recruit/jobssa
State and Local Government Directory: Convenient directory of official state, county, and city government websites.http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm

Public Interest Resources

The following sites, for the most part, provide information about the organizations. Some list positions. Many provide information about internship programs.

Advancing Women: This page provides links to many women's rights organizations and extensive links to generic job banks worldwide. http://www.advancingwomen.com

Alliance for Justice: National association of public interest advocacy organizations. http://www.afj.org

Charity Channel: Extensive online network of non-profit professionals and offers a searchable worldwide career database. http://www.charitychannel.com

Chronicle of Philanthropy: Newspaper of the non-profit world with an large job database http://philanthropy.com

Common Cause: A nonpartisan nonprofit advocacy organization that seeks to hold leaders accountable to the public interest and offers many legal volunteer and intern opportunities. http://www.commoncause.org

Equal Rights Advocates: Combats the disenfranchisement of women http://www.equalrights.org

Essential Homepage: This page provides extensive information about a variety of public interest organizations and is also the home of the Good Works page, which provides a searchable database of public interest positions nationwide. http://www.essential.org

Everett Public Service Internship Program: Funds over 200 summer internships at progressive public service organizations. http://www.everettinternships.org

Fair Housing: A nationwide page for attorneys and advocates interested in housing issues. The job opportunities page lists positions for lawyers, advocates and non-profit managers with organizations nationwide.http://www.fairhousing.com

Frederick B. Abramson Public Service Award:Fellowship awarded to a graduating law student or judicial law to be used as partial compensation for one year’s employment with either a 501(c)(3) public interest law firm or other not-for-profit service organization in the District of Columbia http://www.abramsonfoundation.org

Idealist: Internet non-profit center that provides a link to organizations in over 120 countries. Many of the sites contain both internships and permanent positions with public interest organizations. http://www.idealist.org

Impact Fund: Non-profit founded with the mission of enhancing lawyers’ abilities to bring public interest litigation in the areas of civil rights, poverty, and environmental justice. http://www.impactfund.org

Institute for Global Communication: Hosts links to Peacenet, Labornet, and Womensnet as well as information about non-profit public interest organizations worldwide. http://www.igc.apc.org

International Affairs Network: Annotated list of links to sites on international affairs, human rights, development, and more. http://www.etown.edu/vl/

Legal Aid of Greater Cincinnati: Reducing poverty through effective legal services for the poor. http://www.lascinti.org

The Legal Services Corporation: Downloadable publications and other information, including links to their programs throughout the country. http://www.lsc.gov

National Association of State PIRG’s: Network of state public interest research groups, includes available positions across the country. http://www.uspirg.org

NLADA: National Legal Aid and Defender Association http://www.nlada.org/Jobs

Ohio Legal Rights Service: Ohio’s protection and advocacy agency for adults and children with disabilities.

http://www.disabilityrightsohio.org/

Ohio State Legal Services: Providing legal assistance to low income Ohioans http://www.ohiolegalservices.org/OSLSA/PublicWeb

One World: Domestic and international job listings in human rights, environment, and sustainable development. http://www.oneworld.net/jobs/

Philanthropic Research Inc.: This website contains information on over 800,000 non-profit organizations, their mission statements, and contact information. http://www.guidestar.org

Philanthropy News Digest: Provides listings of current FT jobs at U.S.-based foundations and non-profits. http://www.foundationcenter.org/pnd/jobs

Public Interest Law Initiative: Offers internship and fellowship programs for law students and new law school graduates to work at public interest law agencies in Chicago. http://www.pili-law.org

Public Service Law Network: One of the better public interest job sites http://www.pslawnet.org

Rural Action: Working to revitalize Appalachian Ohio http://www.ruralaction.org

Trial Lawyers for Public Justice: A national public interest law firm. Includes job openings and public interest database.http://www.tlpj.org

United Nations: Lists clerkships, attorney, and law-related jobs with the UN. Site is free and easy to use. Click on “site index,” then “employment ops,” then “legal.” http://www.un.org

Legal Education Resources

ABA Approved L.L.M. Programs: http://www.abanet.org/legaled/postjdprograms/postjd.html
ABA Approved Study Abroad Programs: http://www.abanet.org/legaled/studyabroad/abroad.html
Legal Study Abroad Headquarters: http://www.studylaw.com
ABA Approved Law Schools: http://www.abanet.org/legaled/approvedlawschools/approved.html
Brian Track's Colleges by Career: http://www.braintrack.com/colleges-by-career offers in-depth career profiles as well as degree and wage statistics

Bar Exam Information

National Conference of Bar Examiners: This web site disseminates information concerning bar admission standards and practices. In addition, the site offers bar admission statistics, bar admission office locations, bar exam hints, and online MPRE registration. Contains links to most State Bar Admissions Offices. http://www.ncbex.org

Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions:http://www.mssc.state.ms.us/

Alabama Bar Admissions Office: http://www.alabar.org

Florida Board of Bar Examiners:http://www.floridabarexam.org

Louisiana Committee on Bar Admissions:http://www.lascba.org

Tennessee Board of Law Examiners:http://www.state.tn.us/lawexaminers/

Texas Board of Law Examiners:http://www.ble.state.tx.us

BarBri Bar Review Course: http://www.barbri.com

MicroMash Bar Review:
http://barexambrief.com/category/micromash-bar-review/

PMBR / Multistate Legal Studies, Inc:http://www.pmbr.com

The Study Group: http://www.barexam.com

Supreme Bar Review: http://www.supremebarreview.com

Law School Career Services Offices on the Web

Although most Career Services Offices that have unrestricted access to their Job Postings do so only for alumni, a number of students have had success contacting those employers.

University of Alabama Student Job Bulletin:http://hr.ua.edu/employment/

Loyola New Orleans University School of Law:http://www.law.loyno.edu/ocs/