Category: Career Planning: Job Postings/Symplicity

Nationwide –  Summer Associate – Littler Mendleson

AkronLawJobs No. 8178041 Overview: Summer Associates in the following offices: Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, and San Francisco. Candidates should possess excellent academic credentials and have a demonstrated interest in Labor & Employment law. Please indicate in a cover letter the office for which you are applying.

Littler is the largest global employment and labor law practice with more than 1,000 attorneys in over 65 offices worldwide. Littler represents management in all aspects of employment and labor law and serves as a single source solution provider to the global employer community.

Qualifications:  1L LCLD Scholar candidates must be enrolled as first-year law students and in good standing.

How to apply:  Candidates apply directly through the LCLD website LCLD Website.  Apply for position that indicates Cleveland, LA, NY, Phoenix and San Francisco. Cover letter should indicate what city you would like to work in.

Deadline: ASAP, but no later than April 17, 2017

Cleveland, OH – Temporary Legal Clerk – Landskroner Grieco Merriman, LLC

AkronLawJobs No. 8149 Overview: Temporary Legal Clerk needed to assist a downtown Cleveland law firm with administrative functions related to a class action lawsuit.

Responsibilities:  Answering phone calls from class members, documenting calls received and referring questions as appropriate, interacting with attorneys and paralegals as needed, and assembling and organizing case-related information.

Qualifications:  1L, 2L, 3L. Strong administrative, documentation, written and verbal communication skills.

Position will begin  early April 2017, paid at an hourly rate with flexible hours.

How to apply:  Send your resume and cover letter to Maureen at Maureen@lgmlegal.com

Deadline: ASAP, but no later than March 31, 2017

Akron, OH – 2017 Summer Internship  1L – Summit County Prosecutor’s Office RESUME COLLECTION

AkronLawJobs 8118

Qualifications: 1L.

How to apply: Send your resume, cover letter, unofficial transcript, writing sample, and list of references with contact information to Assistant Dean Alisa Benedict O’Brien at ab139@uakron.edu.  Your cover letter should be addressed to Devorah Pasternak.

Subject Line should read:  2017 Summer Internship 1L – Summit County Prosecutor’s Office

Deadline:  March 22, 2017

Akron, OH – 2017 Summer Internship  2L/Part-time3L – Summit County Prosecutor’s Office RESUME COLLECTION

AkronLawJobs 8117 Qualifications: 2L & part-time 3L. Requires an Intern Certificate by May 2017. Moot Court/Mock Trial is preferred.

How to apply: Send your resume, cover letter, unofficial transcript, writing sample, and list of references with contact information to Assistant Dean Alisa Benedict O’Brien at ab139@uakron.edu. Your cover letter should be addressed to Devorah Pasternak.

Subject Line should read:  2017 Summer Internship 2L/3L – Summit County Prosecutor’s Office

Deadline:  March 22, 2017

Moreland Hills, OH – Legal Internship – Western Reserve Land Conservancy

AkronLawJobs No. 8088  Overview: Western Reserve Land Conservancy, a non-profit conservation organization dedicated to preserving the natural resources of northern Ohio, seeks a legal intern to assist with legal research, drafting of legal documents and correspondence, and other tasks related to real estate law, conservation law, corporate law and tax law.

Duties:  The internship will be located at the Land Conservancy headquarters in Moreland Hills, Ohio. The start date and the length of the internship is negotiable, but must be a minimum of ten weeks. M-F Full-time.

Qualifications: The qualified candidate will ideally have completed two years of law school but must have completed at least one year of law school and will have a demonstrated commitment to the Land Conservancy’s mission. The ideal candidate will also have completed coursework in real estate, corporate, tax, land use, estate planning and/or non-profit organizational law. This person must have strong interpersonal, presentation, and persuasion skills, and an ability to be a team player, working effectively across multiple teams. This person must demonstrate a “solutions-oriented” mindset, with an ability to organize, analyze and communicate information that can be used to make effective business decisions.

How to apply:  Please provide your resume and cover letter to Julie Carr, Land Protection Paralegal jcarr@wrlandconservancy.org. Please direct any questions to Julie Carr jcarr@wrlandconservancy.org or 440-528-4157.

Deadline:  March 31, 2017

Rural Summer Legal Corps Program

Ohio State Legal Services Association is actively seeking candidates interested in either learning about court costs and the barriers they present for indigent individuals accessing the justice system or in working on a medical/legal partnership for clients in Appalachia. Fellows will work out of the field office of their choice (Athens, Chillicothe, Marion, Newark, New Philadelphia, Portsmouth or Steubenville).

More broadly, the Rural Summer Legal Corps program connects public interest law students with civil legal aid organizations to address pressing legal issues facing rural communities. 30 Fellowship opportunities are available nationwide to provide critical legal services to rural communities in the areas of housing, domestic violence, public benefits, migrant farmworkers, Native American, and family law. Your students are of course welcome to apply to any positions that they find interesting, I just wanted to highlight the Ohio opportunity for you. Applicants are able to rank up to three sites in terms of geographic preference.

Selected students will receive a $5,000 stipend and begin the summer with intensive training from poverty law experts in Washington, DC before deploying to their host site for an 8-10 week placement.  1Ls and 2Ls are eligible. Interested students can learn more about the program and apply by Friday, February 17^th, here.