Category: Career Planning: Job Postings/Symplicity

The Dayton Chapter of the Thurgood Marshall Law Society is committed to increasing diversity and inclusion within the Dayton-area bar. This program is for students from traditionally underrepresented groups including Native American or Alaskan Native, Asian or Pacific Islander, African-American or Black, Hispanic, or a member of the LGBT community.
The Diversity Summer Clerkship Program is just one element of the commitment. Through this program, select students will receive real-world legal experience, develop fundamental research and writing skills, and receive networking training necessary for a solid foundation to a successful and impactful legal career.
• Applications will be solicited from students at all Ohio law schools
• Upon applying, candidates will rank their employer preferences
• Members of TMLS will review applications and recommend candidates to employers\
• Upon agreeing to participate in the program, each employer must inform TMLS as to its preference between rising 2L and rising 3L students
• Each employer will employ at least one candidate for the summer
• Employers are responsible for scheduling interviews with individual candidates
• Each employer will make its own final hiring and salary decisions
• Each selected candidate is required to attend the TMLS seminar on workplace etiquette and legal writing skills prior to the start of the clerkship
• Clerkships will last ten weeks, running from approximately May 15 through July 28
• Although individual schedules must be worked out with employers, students should expect to work at least 30-40 hours per week.
How to apply: Fill out the application and send:
• Application (may be picked up in Law 110, the Career Center or Central Hower 301)
• Cover Letter – including explanation of how background will increase diversity in the Dayton bar)
• Resume
• Writing Sample (no longer than five pages)
• Most recent transcript
• Current class curriculum
DEADLINE for receipt – February 3, 2017 – Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. Late applications will not be reviewed.
You may either send via U.S. Mail or hand deliver to:
Robert Gresham
Wright & Schulte, LLC
130 W. Second Street, Suite 1600
Dayton, OH 45402
OR via e-mail to TMLS_DaytonClerkshipProgram@outlook.com

Memphis, TN – Summer 2017 Law Student Internship – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

AkronLawJobs No. 8002 Overview: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a world-class research hospital treating children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases and conducting research on those diseases.

About the internship/duties: Legal interns at St. Jude spend a summer immersed in a unique culture where basic, translational, and clinical research are all housed on the same campus in a robust hospital; where biochemists, computational biologists, geneticists, and statisticians routinely interact with medical and research specialists in infectious diseases, oncology, pharmacology, radiology, surgery, and hematology (including sickle cell disease). Interns will work with a number of lawyers, both in-house and (with supervision) outside counsel, on substantive projects in many aspects of the law – some of which will depend on the intern’s interests – including health law, business transactions, risk management, international law, intellectual property, commercial transactions, labor and employment, clinical trials, grants and contracts, and even shaping law and regulations at the State and Federal levels. As part of the intern experience, each intern will tour and learn about legal issues related to patient housing, clinics, Children’s GMP, and Environmental Health and Safety, and will have training in Export Control and HIPAA. Interns also have worked in depth with the Office of Technology Licensing, Managed Care, and Environmental Health and Safety. We take our mentoring obligations very seriously (and enjoy it!), so every assignment comes with plenty of context and follow-through opportunities for the interns, and client interaction is plentiful. Moreover, interns will find themselves routinely included in meetings of all types for  educational purposes. Every past intern has given our program remarkably high scores, according to their respective law schools.

Please note: To prevent conflicts of interest, we do not accept students who have relatives working at St. Jude, except in extraordinary circumstances.

Please note: This is an unpaid internship. Please see Assistant Dean Alisa Benedict O’Brien in the Career Planning and Placement Center for ideas on funding this position.

Qualifications: 2L or part-time 3L.

How to apply:    Please note your undergraduate, graduate (if applicable), and law school GPA’s in your resume.  Please send your resume and cover letter to:  lawcareerplanning@uakron.edu ADDRESSED TO Dr. McGehee Marsh, Senior Counsel, Office of Legal Services, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, MS 280, Memphis, TN 38105 by February 9, 2017, for consideration.

It is crucial that the cover letter addresses why the applicant wishes to have an internship at St. Jude, the Intern’s expectations, and why the intern believes they “belong” here.

Deadline: February 9, 2017 (e-mailed to lawcareerplanning@uakron.edu)

Columbus, OH – Summer 2017 Clerkship/Diversity Scholarship – Kegler Brown Hill + Ritter
AkronLawJobs No. 7849 Overview: The Columbus, Ohio-based law firm or Kegler Brown will award a Diversity Scholarship to a first-year law student and is currently seeking applicants. The $10,000 Kegler Brown Hill + Ritter Diversity Scholarship includes a paid clerkship position with the firm’s summer associate class. All first-year law students who are members of historically underrepresented populations are eligible to apply for the scholarship. Our Diversity Scholarship is awarded annually based on demonstrated academic performance, accomplishments and activities. Recruiting for law clerk for the
How to apply: Those interested in applying should visit: Interested – see details here All application materials should be sent to the attention of Jenna Nistelbeck, Director of Human Resources. Make sure to include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and underrepresented populations status on the cover of your application. Capitol Square, Suite 1800, 65 East State Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215 Phone: (614)462-5400 Toll Free: (800) 860-7885 Fax: (614)464-2634 Email:
Deadline: January 31, 2017

Philadelphia, PA — 2017 Summer and Academic Year Volunteer Clerkships –U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

AkronLawJobs No. 7986 Overview: EPA Region III encompasses the Mid-Atlantic States and is based in Philadelphia, PA.  This is a non-salaried and competitive process.  Previous experience or demonstrated interest in public service or environmental law is helpful but not required.

Duties: Complex research projects and the drafting of legal documents under the supervision of staff attorneys in the Office of Regional Counsel, accompany staff attorneys to client meetings, negotiating sessions, trials, hearings, and depositions. Weekly seminars will be provided concerning various topics related to the EPA’s environmental law practice. Assignments will be in one of several branches including Air, Water, Toxics, RCRA, and CERCLA.EPA Attorneys are involved in nearly all aspects of the Agency’s mission, including administrative, civil, and criminal enforcement of environmental laws: drafting and interpreting EPA regulations, policy and guidance; oversight of state environmental agencies; and counseling on government contracts and grants, bankruptcy, employment, corporations, and real property.

Hours:  Expected to work 40 hours per week for ten weeks between May 23, 2017 and July 28, 2017.  The Region III office also has full and part-time volunteer law positions available during the academic year.  Deadline for Fall clerkship is June 15 and December 15 for Spring clerkship.

How to apply: Students are encouraged to apply via email.  Please submit, resume, cover letter; writing sample, 3 references w/contact information and law school transcript.  You can also send credentials via U.S. mail to:

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Region III, (3RCoo)

1650 Arch Street

Philadelphia, PA 19103-2029

(215)814-2146

Deadline: January 31, 2017

Columbus, OH – Judicial Extern — Supreme Court of Ohio / Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor
AkronLawJobs No. 7171 Overview: Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor of the Supreme Court of Ohio seeks applications for a judicial extern for the 2016 summer term. All students, including students of color, LGBT students, women, first generation college graduates and “non-traditional” law students, are welcome in chambers.
Job Description: The externship commences with a mandatory orientation program on Friday, May 19, 2017 and will run through Friday, July 21, 2017. Students accepted into the program may seek academic credit but are not required to do so. The successful applicants for this program will have excellent research, analytical, writing and interpersonal skills. Due to the sensitive and confidential nature of the work involved, the successful applicant must also be mature, responsible, reliable and discrete. A background check is required for this position. Judicial externs will work with Chief Justice O’Connor’s legal staff on various tasks. The primary focus of the externs’ work will be review and analysis of parties’ arguments for discretionary review of intermediate appellate court decisions. Judicial externs will prepare memoranda that summarize the relevant facts, claims, and law of particular cases, and make recommendations as to the disposition of those discretionary appeals, including a suggestion on whether the Ohio Supreme Court should accept the appeal. (The process is similar to the analysis undertaken on petitions for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court.) Research projects may also be assigned to the extern. Student may also work on merit opinions.
Externs must be available for at least 16 hours weekly, and attend oral arguments held by the court over the summer session. Those dates include June 6, 7, 20, and 21. Externs will also be expected to attend bi-weekly meetings with attorneys and judges who participate in the networking and mentoring components of the externship program, as well as weekly supervision sessions.
How to apply: Send your resume, law school transcript, and a brief cover letter setting forth your interest in the position. Please submit to: Pierce.Reed@sc.ohio.gov OR MAIL HARD COPIES TO: Pierce J. Reed, Senior Judicial Attorney to Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, Supreme Court of Ohio, 65 South Front Street, Columbus, OH 43215. Applications may be sent in electronic form. Due to the competitive selection process, early applications are encouraged.

Deadline: February 10, 2017