In connection with the student interviews it is conducting on the first day of our OCIP — Monday, August 23 — the law firm of Crowell & Moring, LLP is holding a reception at Adagia from 6-8pm. All students and faculty are welcome.
You can view the full invite here.
The Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) Law Student-Division (LSD) board is looking for talented law students to serve on its national board. The 2009-10 board began a series of projects, including fundraising initiatives and professional development programs. However, in order to carry them to fruition next year the board will need strong leadership.
If you or someone you know is interested in serving the board, please submit a one-page resume and a statement of interest, not to exceed 500 words, to Edward Carlson at carlson.edward@gmail.com by the 12th of August, 12:00 PM EST.
Campaigns for national board positions begin on August 13th with online voting at our TWEN site starting on August 14 at 12:00 AM EST, and ending on September 5th at 12:00 AM EST.
In early September, the HNBA will also be holding its annual convention, and celebrating 35 years of being this country’s leading Hispanic legal organization.
The national convention will be held at the Minneapolis Hilton from September 8th to the 11th of September. http://www.hnba.com/hnba-35th-annual-convention/
The HNBA will be offering 20 scholarships for students to attend the convention free of charge in exchange for volunteering at the convention. The law school division will also be offering a number of scholarships to supplement the cost of attendance. For further information on volunteer scholarships, please contact Alma Luisa Andrade, HNBA Events Director at alandrade@hnba.com. For information regarding LSD scholarships please contact carlson.edward@gmail.com.
The Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) is sponsoring a Law Teaching Seminar on Tuesday, September 29th at 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. at the BASF Conference Center, 301 Battery Street, Third Floor, San Francisco. For more information, including a list of panelists and RSVP information, click here.
In addition to PI/PS Day, (whose employer-participants are overwhelmingly Bay Area based), there are a couple of out-of-the area regional public interest law career fairs that are taking place at virtually the same day as PIPS Day. One focuses on Pacific Northwest employers and the other is comprised primarily of Southern California employers. If you are absolutely certain you want to work in one of these regions (and not here), you may want to consider attending one of these other career fairs.
Neither allows you to compete for individual interview slots, but you are permitted to attend the “table talk” portion of the events to meet with employers.
The Northwest Public Service Career Fair will be held on February 6, 2009 at Seattle University Campion Hall in Seattle, Washington and on February 7, 2009 at Lewis & Clark College Templeton Student Center in Portland, Oregon . The Southern California Public Interest Career Day will take place on February 7, 2009 at UCLA Law.
For a list of career fairs throughout the nation, visit pslawnet.org (Note: on the pslawnet list, Spring 2009 appears after Summer and Fall 2009).
Questions? Contact Linda Maranzana in the CDO.
What’s Free Culture?
Free Culture is a movement focused on creativity and innovation, communication and free expression, public access to knowledge and civil liberties. Students for Free Culture at Berkeley is hosting the Free Culture 2008 Conference over Columbus Day weekend.
Conference Details
The conference will be held October 11th at the Chevron Auditorium at I-House. Anyone interested in politics, tech policy, art, and culture will find something to like. Keynoters include Prof. Pam Samuelson, Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law, and Mozilla Corporation CEO John Lilly. Panel topics will include transparent politics, remix culture, copyright reform, and open access to knowledge and medicine. Richard Rinehart of Berkeley Art Museum will present the groundbreaking OpenMuseum project and Berkeley’s OKAPI group will demonstrate its virtual recreation of Çatalhöyük island for the Open Archaeology project. Filmmaker Nina Paley will be present for a screening of her groundbreaking film Sita Sings the Blues. And on October 12th, SFC will present a slate of intimate “unconference” style workshops on the Berkeley campus. Join guests from Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and others!
Students for Free Culture at Berkeley are asking attendees to donate what they think the conference is worth, whether that’s $1 or $100.
Register at http://conference.freeculture.org/register/
The International Law Section of the Barristers Club and the California State Bar’s International Law Section are presenting an international law careers showcase on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 from 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm. at the BASF Conference Center, 301 Battery Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111
Speakers include:
Bruce Boyd (Partner, Holme Roberts & Owen) speaking on International Real Estate
Sarah Burt (Associate Attorney, Earthjustice) speaking on International Environmental Law
Natasha FainStaff (Attorney, Center for Justice And Accountability) speaking on International Human Rights
Arthur Gemmell (International Law Scholar, Santa Clara University Center for Global Law & Policy) speaking on International Commercial Arbitration
Tiffany Gomez (Corporate Counsel, International Employment Law, GAP, Inc.) speaking on International Retail Business
Daniel Zimmerman (Associate, Cooley Goodward Kronish) speaking on International Venture Capital Projects
Cost for students (including lunch): $20.00
For more details and to register online, visit the SF Bar’s informational webpage.
The CDO adheres to the general BBB rule against posting event announcements here; instead we post announcements about our events to the Berkeley Law Events Calendar (and the CDO Calendar).
From time to time, however, we hear about interesting career networking opportunities sponsored by groups external to the School and which take place outside Berkeley Law. As such, they are not appropriate to include on our internal calendars. But, we do think they are useful for you to know about, so we’ve created a separate category of BBB posts to announce them called ”Events Away from Berkeley Law.”
Below is the first such posting for this category, which comes from an organization known as Women Defenders:
A RECEPTION TO CELEBRATE WOMEN’S SUCCESS IN CRIMINAL DEFENSE
Thursday, September 25
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Women Defenders hosts this event annually as a way to connect law students interested in criminal defense to the local criminal defense community. Usually nearly 100 people attend! For practitioners, it is a fun event to catch up with colleagues and share your insights and experience with aspiring criminal defense attorneys. Help grow the criminal defense community by supporting the next generation of criminal defenders!
WHERE: Clarence & Dyer, LLP, 899 Ellis Street, San Francisco (Street Parking and Garage Parking Available)
Refreshments will be served.There is no cost to attend this event.Please RSVP to: 510-525-0995 or to: WomenDefenders@aol.com