Category: Career Planning: Job Postings/Symplicity

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO

United States Courthouse, Suite 400, 801 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44113  ATTN: Carole S. Rendon, First Assistant United States Attorney

The Office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio is responsible for
the prosecution of all federal crimes in northern Ohio. The office also represents the United
States and its departments and agencies in civil proceedings filed in federal court and in the
Sixth Circuit. Volunteer law clerks assist in the prosecution and defense of both criminal and
civil cases in the District Court, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the Bankruptcy
Court.

Projected No. of Volunteers:

14-15 (Students entering their third year are preferred)
Law Clerk
Location(s):
Cleveland, OH (12); Akron, OH (1-2); Youngstown (1)
Application Materials:
Resume and cover letter indicating dates when available, and telephone
number(s) where student can be reached both during the day and in the
evening. Application by e-mail is the exclusive method of providing
the resume and cover letter. Applications should be submitted to
USAOHN.SummerLaw@usdoj.gov

Qualifications:
U.S. citizen. Will be subject to a background investigation due to the sensitive nature of the work performed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Must be a First-year (second semester) and second-year law student. Application Deadline: For Summer of 2011: Applications will be accepted between December 1, 2010 and January 14, 2011.
Minimum Weeks Required:
10 weeks minimum (at least 32 hours per week) (full time preferred)
Salary:
Volunteer (without compensation)Assignments: to research legal issues for indictments and investigations; to assemble exhibits for trial; to observe hearings and trials of cases on which they are working or in which they are interested.

Law clerks can expect to research and write motions in pending cases;

 If you have any questions about the 2011 Summer Law Clerk Program,please feel free to contact Assistant U.S. Attorney Phillip J. Tripi at (216) 622-3769. 

Web Site: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/ohn

The U.S. Department of Justice is an Equal Opportunity Reasonable Accommodation Employer.

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Youngstown, OH – Judicial Law Clerk – Seventh District Court of Appeals

Symplicity Job No. 2124

Judge Mary DeGenaro of Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals is seeking applicants for a law clerk position, to be filled immediately. All applicants must be licensed attorneys. Applicants who graduated in May 2010 should be in the top 25% of their graduating class or have experience on a law review. The starting salary is $45,000 per year. All applicants must possess excellent research and writing skills, Westlaw experience, and be self sufficient. Please send a cover letter, current resume, references, grade transcripts if a 2010, 2009 or 2008 law school graduate, and writing sample by January 10, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. EST to: Bobbie Knickerbocker, Secretary for Judge Mary DeGenaro, by mail to Seventh District Court of Appeals, 131 West Federal Street, Youngstown, OH 44503; or electronically to bknickerbocker@mahoningcountyoh.gov. Applications will be considered and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis.

Free Law Student Passes to “Fundamentals of Employment Law” Seminar
Sterling Education Services, Inc. is a non-profit continuing education company that conducts seminars across the nation. They are holding a “Fundamentals of Employment Law” seminar in Akron, OH on January 18, 2011 and are offering  five law students free scholarship-passes to this seminar.  Students get a day-long overview of a particular aspect of the law, a seminar manual, and you also get an opportunity to network with practicing attorneys. This is a win-win situation.

 Please visit online at www.sterlingeducation.com for information on Sterling Education Services and details on this program or call Elizabeth Hammer at 715.855.0495.  Students are NOT to register on the website.  Students must register before the seminar via phone or email. No walk-ins will be allowed. Only current law students may take advantage of these passes and MUST provide their student id number or other proof of enrollment in order to register.

 For those students who wish to register, they may email or call Elizabeth Hammer directly with the following information:

Information on the seminar which they are interested in attending:

Title:

City, ST:

Date:

Student Information:

Full Name:

Student ID# (required):

CC information*: (may be called-in if preferable, but must be provided to secure registration)

Phone Number:

Email Address:

Full Mailing Address:

School Name:

*Important Note: The scholarship policy requires that recipients provide credit card information at the time of registration to secure their free pass. No charge will be made to the card unless the registrant fails to attend the program and does not notify us three business days in advance. If a scholarship registrant should fail to show up at the program or cancel as described above a $50.00 no-show fee will be charged to the card provided. This policy has been instituted to avoid students securing a free pass and not choosing to use it while other students who would have like to have attended were told the free slots had been filled. Students will be thoroughly informed of this policy upon registration for the program.

2011 Mendes Hershman Student Writing Contest
The ABA Business Law Section is sponsoring its 25th Annual Mendes Hershman Student Writing Contest to encourage and reward law student writings on a business law subject of general and current interest.

Awards
– First Place: $2,500 
– Second Place: $1,000 
– Third Place: $500 

All winners will be invited and subsidized to attend the Section Spring Meeting 2011 in Boston, MA to receive their award.

Submission Process

Papers will be judged on research and analysis, choice of topic, writing style, originality, and contribution to the literature available on the topic. Papers submitted are normally 20-30 pages long, but should not exceed 100 pages of double-spaced typed text, including footnotes. Students need not be members of the Business Law Section to participate.

All entries must be submitted electronically by January 14, 2011.  Click here to download a cover form to be included with your entry. For more information click here.