ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Student registration for the 2010 Conference and Career Fair is now open.
- Tickets now on sale for our 2010 Annual Awards Dinner. Join us as we honor public interest law leaders.
- Please view our latest job postings and see how you can help mobilize the next generation of public interest lawyers.
- Now accepting applications for 2011 Fellowships. Jump start your career in public interest law!
Employers Attending the Career Fair*
AARP Foundation Litigation - Employment (Washington, DC)
ABA Commission on Domestic Violence (Washington, DC)
ACLU (New York, NY)
ACLU Drug Law Reform Project (Santa Cruz, CA)
ACLU National Prison Project (Washington, DC)
ACLU-Capital Punishment Project (Durham, NC)
Advancement Project (Washington, DC)
Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE) (Toledo, OH)
Advocates for Children (New York, NY)
AFL-CIO (Washington, DC)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (Washington, DC)
Alaska Public Defender Agency (Anchorage, AK)
Alexandria Public Defender (Alexandria, VA)
Alliance for Justice (Washington, DC)
American Civil Liberties Union Washington Legislative Office (Washington, DC)
American Constiution Society for Law and Policy (Washington, DC)
American Diabetes Association (Alexandria, VA)
Americans United for Separation of Church and State (Washington, DC)
Animal Legal Defense Fund (Cotati, CA and Portland, OR)
Asian American Justice Center (Washington, DC)
Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center (Washington, DC)
Association of Virginia Legal Aid Programs (Many offices in Virginia)
Basta, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA)
Bernabei & Wachtel, PLLC (Washington, DC)
BPI (Business and Professional People for the Public Interest) (Chicago, IL)
Bread for the City (Washington, DC)
Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC (Washington, DC)
Brennan Center for Justice (New York, NY)
Bronx Defenders (Bronx, NY)
California Appellate Project (101 Second Street, San Francisco, CA)
Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana (New Orleans, LA)
CASA de Maryland (Silver Spring, MD and Baltimore, MD)
Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc. (Washington,, DC)
Children's Law Center (Monterey Park, CA)
Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll, PLLC (Washington, DC)
Colorado Public Defender (Denver, CO)
Columbia Legal Services (Seattle, Washington)
Committee for Public Counsel Services (Boston, MA)
Community Federal Defender of Philadelphia - Capital Habeas Corpus Unit (Philadelphia, PA)
Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Community Legal Services, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA)
Constitutional Accountability Center (Washington, DC)
Consumers Union (Washington, DC)
Cook County Office of the Public Guardian (Chicago, IL)
Corporation for National & Community Service (Washington, DC)
D.C. Employment Justice Center (Washington, DC)
DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice (Washington, DC)
Defender Association of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
Defenders of Wildlife (Washington, DC)
Delaware Department of Justice (Wilmington, Delaware)
Demo Employer (Demoville, DE)
Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action (New York, NY)
Disability Rights Legal Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Disability Rights North Carolina (Raleigh, North Carolina)
Disaster Accountability Project (Hartford, CT (w/opportunities across US))
DNA-People's Legal Services, Inc. (Window Rock AZ)
Earthjustice Washington, D.C. (Washington, DC)
EEOC Office of General Counsel (Washington, DC)
Electronic Privacy Information Center (Washington, DC)
Equal Justice Center (Austin, TX)
Equal Rights Advocates (San Francisco, CA)
Fair Share Housing Center (Cherry Hill, NJ)
Fair Trial Initiative (Durham, NC)
Farmworker Legal Services (Bangor, Michigan)
Farmworker Legal Services of New York, Inc. (Rochester, NY)
Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc. (San Diego, CA)
Federal Highway Administration (Washington, DC)
Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection (Washington, DC)
Florida Institutional Legal Services (Gainesville, FL)
Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc. (Fort Myers, FL)
Food and Drug Division, Office of the Chief Counsel (Rockville, MD)
Fried Frank Fellowship Program (One New York Plaza)
Gebhardt & Associates, LLP (Washington, DC)
Georgia Capital Defender (Atlanta, GA)
Georgia Justice Project (Atlanta, GA)
Georgia Legal Services Program (Atlanta, GA)
Greater Boston Legal Services (Boston, MA)
Help Abolish Legal Tyranny (HALT) (Washington, DC)
HHS Departmental Appeals Board (Washington, D.C.)
Juvenile Law Center (Philadelphia, PA)
Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP (Washington, DC)
Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy (Frankfort, KY)
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Washington, DC)
Legal Aid of North Carolina, Inc. (Raleigh, NC)
Legal Aid of Western Ohio, Inc. (LAWO) (Toledo, OH)
Legal Aid Society of DC (Washington, DC)
Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts (Worcester, MA)
Legal Momentum, Immigrant Women Program (Washington, DC)
Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc. (Miami, FL)
LL.M. Program on Law and Government (Washington, DC)
Louisiana Capital Assistance Center (New Orleans, LA)
Low Income Taxpayer Clinic of Appalred (Richmond, KY)
Maricopa County Public Defender's Office (Phoenix, AZ)
Maricopa County Attorney's Office (Phoenix, AZ)
Maricopa County Attorney's Office (Phoenix, AZ)
Metropolitan Davidson County Public Defender (Nashville, TN)
Mississippi Center for Justice (Jackson, MS)
Montana Legal Services Association (Helena, MT)
National Center for Lesbian Rights (San Francisco, CA)
National Center for Youth Law (Oakland, CA)
National Consumers League (Washington, DC)
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (Washington, DC)
National Health Law Program (Washington, DC)
National Housing Law Project (Washington, D.C.)
National Institute for Trial Advocacy (Louisville,CO)
National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (Washington, DC)
National Partnership for Women & Families (Washington, DC)
National Women's Law Center (Washington, DC)
Neighborhood Defender Service (New York, NY)
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County (Pacoima, CA)
New Hampshire Legal Assistance (Statewide, NH)
New Hampshire Public Defender (Concord, NH)
New York City Law Dept. (New York, New York)
New York Civil Liberties Union (New York, NY)
New York County District Attorney's Office (New York, NY)
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (New York, NY)
New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) (New York, NY)
Oceana, Inc. (Washington, DC)
Orleans Public Defenders (New Orleans, LA)
Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network (Harrisburg, PA)
People For the American Way Foundation (Washington, DC)
Public Citizen Litigation Group (Washington, DC)
Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (Washington, DC)
Public Defender's Office - Miami, FL (Miami, FL)
Public Defender's Office, Palm Beach County, FL (West Palm Beach, FL)
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Washington, DC)
Public Interest Law Project (Oakland, CA)
Public Justice Center (Baltimore, MD)
Quality Trust for Individuals with Disabilities (Washington, DC)
San Bernardino County Public Defender's Office (San Bernardino, CA)
School of Government, UNC Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
Service Employees International Union (Washington, DC)
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (Washington, DC)
Sexual Assault Legal Institute (Silver Spring, MD)
Southern Center for Human Rights (Atlanta, GA)
Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) (Charlottesville, VA)
State of Connecticut Judicial Branch (New Haven, CT)
State of Maryland Office of the Public Defender (Baltimore, MD)
The Children's Law Center (Washington, DC)
The Florida Bar Foundation (Orlando, FL)
The Legal Aid Society, New York City (New York, NY)
The Southern Public Defender Training Center (Atlanta, Georgia)
U.S. Department of Education, Office of the General Counsel (Washington, DC)
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (Washington, DC)
U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section (Washington, DC)
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management (Washington, DC)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Boston, Massachusetts)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, DC)
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Office of Legal Counsel (Washington, DC)
U.S. PIRG (Boston, MA)
United MIne Workers of America (Fairfax, VA)
United States Senate Legislative Counsel (Washington, DC)
University Legal Services (Washington, DC)
US Department of State (Washington, DC)
Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs (Washington, DC)
Washoe County Public Defender's Office (Reno, NV)
West TN Legal Services (Jackson TN)
Whitman-Walker Clinic Legal Services (Washington, DC)
World Organization for Human Rights USA (Washington, DC)
World Relief (Baltimore, MD)
*As of Oct. 9
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Registration and Review
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IMPORTANT DATES
- August 30
Student & law school professional registration opens. - August 30 – September 24
Students may apply for interviews. Employers will notify students if selected for interviews. Registered employers may post openings and position descriptions. - September 15
Last day for employers to register and be listed in program materials. - September 24
Employer registration closes;
last day for students to apply for interviews. - September 27 - October 4
Employers select students for interviews. - October 4
All interview notifications complete. - October 5
Students notified of interview selections. - October 8
Last day to reserve hotel rooms for low rate of $149 per night! - October 12
Last day for students to accept or decline an interview slot. - Oct. 22 & 23
2010 Conference and Career Fair
Forum
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