Deadline: September 13, 2010
Award: 4 scholarships ranging from $500 to $2000
Contact: Anastasia Pavich
Email: apavich@monicopavich.com
Website and Application: http://www.serbbar.org/scholarship/

You can view the full invite here. 

If you have any questions,  please contact the Financial Aid Office
financial-aid@law.berkeley.edu
510-642-1563

Berkeley Law Financial Aid

Starting this Thursday, August 19, the Project is having weekly meetings EVERY THURSDAY in ROOM 145 from 4:00 - 5:30 to work on the draft document which can be seen at www.2048.berkeley.edu. All students, faculty and staff are welcome, with or without experience in human rights. Food and drink will be served in an informal, brainstorming, setting.

• Go to http://www.thezonelive.com/
• Type Boalt for School under the Students, Parents, Teachers section and click Search.
• Click the link for Boalt Hall.
• The calendar sidebar link displays the same events as in the paper planner. The calendar contains law school events and deadlines as well as holidays.
• The handbook sidebar link displays a PDF copy of the Student Handbook. The Handbook includes the Academic Rules, the Academic Calendar and condensed Directory of Law School Persons and Departments.

Happy planning!

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 12^th of August, 12:00 PM EST.

Campaigns for national board positions begin on August 13^th with online voting at our TWEN site starting on August 14 at 12:00 AM EST, and ending on September 5^th 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 8^th to the 11^th 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.

Please send resumes to Professor Semel at esemel@law.berkeley.edu

Requirements: Good communication skills, experience in programming in Perl, Phthon, and C++ preferred; some experience in understanding legal regulations and documents.

Salary: $14.45-$18.25; 15-20 hours per week.

Please send resume to Eric Talley, etalley@law.berkeley.edu

Interested applicants should submit an application, including resume, official law school transcript, legal writing sample and personal statement to Jenny Connelly at scholarship@sidley.com or Sidley Austin LLP, One South Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60603.

Applications will remain open through the Fall 2010 recruiting session and can be found on their website at http://www.sidley.com/careers/northamerica/about/diversityscholars.

Deadline: July 15, 2010
Award: $500
Contact: Brian E. Qualls, Esq.
Email: BQualls@DAKLAW.com
Click here to download the application.

Grad PLUS “additional six-month” non-payment period

We just received an update from Direct Loan Servicing (DL) pertaining to your second and third year Grad PLUS loans. All Boalt graduates automatically receive an “additional six-month” non-payment period for Grad PLUS loans disbursed after July 2008. This “additional six-month” non-payment period is the equivalent of a grace period. However, your first year Grad PLUS loan doesn’t have such an option. You will receive a payment notice within 60 days after graduation if you don’t request forbearance or apply for deferment. Please contact Direct Loan Servicing Center at 1-800-848-0979 for assistance.

LRAP

• Please check the LRAP guidelines for information on extended coverage for “Low Bono”/Union LRAP coverage at our website. This pilot program will be limited to 7 slots for the class of 2010.

• Volunteer work in form of fellowships or uncompensated training programs does not constitute employment and therefore does not satisfy the LRAP or Public Service Loan Forgiveness requirements. You must be employed or have a contract upon which you receive compensation for your service.

• Graduates seeking to participate in LRAP must begin participating in the program within three years after the end of their loan grace period, which normally is six months after graduation. Students who will be graduating this May have the option to enter the LRAP as first-time participants until December 2013 if all eligibility requirements are met.

• Because most educational loans offer a six-month grace period following graduation, May 2010 graduates going directly into qualifying employment will not receive their first LRAP loan until January 2011. The application forms for Spring 2011 will be available on our website by early October and the deadline is November 1.

• Before applying to LRAP please review the application process and our check list of required documents for first-time applicants.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)

Many of you are planning a long-term career in public service and may utilize the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), a 10-year program. Only Federal Direct loans qualify for PSLF. You must consolidate or reconsolidate your pre-Boalt FFEL loans into Federal Direct if you want those loans to be eligible for forgiveness: http://loanconsolidation.ed.gov. Please check if your pre-Boalt loans carry a grace period before initiating a consolidation. Consolidations will cancel a grace period and immediately enter repayment.

Please note that under the 10-year PSLF program a consolidation is considered a new loan and therefore the 10-year clock will re-start on the consolidation. For more details about IBR and PSLF please check the LRAP section and external links of our website,  www.IBRinfo.org and  Equal Justice Works.

Perkins Loan Benefits for Public Defenders

Recently the Department of Education published new regulations for the expanded Perkins loan cancellation benefits for full-time attorneys employed in Federal or Community Defender Organizations. Eligible service performed on or after August 14, 2008 will qualify a borrower for cancellation, regardless of whether information on the expansion of the cancellation category appears on the borrower’s promissory note. Since Public Defender employment also qualifies for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), please note that borrowers may not be able to use the same service years for both loan cancellation programs. For more information on Perkins loan cancellation benefits please check your servicing agency’s website. UC Berkeley Perkins loans are serviced by ACS.

Please explore the LRAP section of our website for more information. If you plan a career in public service and have questions about LRAP and the Public Service Loan Forgiveness, please schedule an appointment for an individual assessment of your student loan portfolio and repayment options before you leave Berkeley.

Congratulations and Best Wishes!

Call for Papers 2010-2011:
IJHRL is an annual, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Council for American Students in International Negotiations. The journal invites quality submissions from scholars, jurists, and professionals in fields related to human rights. Occasionally, exceptional student work will be accepted. IJHRL also welcomes review essays, book reviews, and comments/notes. Manuscripts are accepted on a rolling basis.

Manuscripts must be computer generated in MS Word and submitted electronically in .doc format via e-mail or Berkeley Electronic Press’s Express submission service. Each submission should contain an abstract of no more than 150 words, a CV, appropriate contact information and a cover letter to the editor assuring that the manuscript has not been submitted or published elsewhere. Manuscripts should range from 3,000 to 10,000 words (approximately 15-25 pages) and be typed, double-spaced. Manuscripts exceeding the maximum length may not be considered. Book reviews may run from 1,000 to 2,500 words. Please adhere closely to the Chicago Manual of Style and cite sources in standard American legal format according to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation.

Submissions are subjected to external, double-blind peer review. Additionally, authors are encouraged to seek comments on their manuscripts from colleagues within their discipline. Upon receiving comments from referees, notification of acceptance, rejection or need for revision will be given within approximately 6-8 weeks of receipt of manuscript.

Submissions and other editorial correspondence should be addressed to ijhrl@americanstudents.us.

The California Writing Workshop provides students a chance to write and publish articles on recent developments within the California criminal law system. This class will give you the opportunity and resources to discover trending topics, exhaustively research your thesis, and produce polished, high-quality papers.

You can satisfy their writing requirement through this workshop. If accepted by BJCL, your article will be published on Westlaw, Lexis, and Hein Online.

If interested, please send a five page writing sample to (gy@berkeley.edu) to apply.

238.5T- Criminal Writing Workshop
2 Units (+1 if you’re doing your writing requirement)
Th 3:35-5:25p

Feeling overwhelmed? Frustrated? Down? Confused about what you are doing in law school? Need to talk about school, stress, friends, family, LIFE? Tired of pretending everything is fine?

Law Students for Law Students (LSLS) is a new student organization dedicated to providing support for law students through peer counseling and wellness programming. LSLS allows students to talk honestly to other students who understand what law school is like. Trained peer counselors offer free, confidential peer counseling services in an empathetic and non-judgmental manner. We don’t care if you don’t have everything together. We don’t care if you don’t even know what you are doing in law school. Come talk to us. Seriously.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, email:  lawstudentsforlawstudents@gmail.com or visit http://boalt.org/lsls/.

A New American is a person who holds a Green Card, or is already a naturalized citizen, or the child of a naturalized parent (the other parent cannot be a US born citizen). A candidate must not be more than 30 years of age as of November 1 of the year of application. Please go to www.pdsoros.org for more information about the fellowships.

Dennis Tominaga
Assistant Dean of Financial Aid

First year law students interested in this position should submit a resume and writing sample to Professor Urban at jurban@law.berkeley.edu by April 12. Completion of the Intro to Intellectual Property Rights class is not necessary, although it may be helpful. Previous empirical experience may also be helpful, but is not necessary.