The LGBT Bar's 2019 Lavender Law Conference and Career Fair will be held August 7-9 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Registration is now open. The 2018 Career Fair included almost 190 recruiters representing law firms, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. Learn more and register at https://lgbtbar.org/annual/
The 2019 Diversity Leadership Academy, taking place from March 29-31, 2019 in San Francisco, brings together Latham lawyers and summer associates from around the globe and talented first-year law students from across the United States. The program seeks to develop and empower future leaders of the legal profession and create community among lawyers, recruits, and 1L [...]
The ABA Business Law Section is currently accepting applications for the 2019 Diversity Clerkship Program. The Diversity Clerkship Program is a summer program that provides business law clerkship placements for qualified diverse first or second year law students. Participating clerks receive support and mentoring in the business law field and exposure to business practices. The [...]
The Office of Career Strategy and Employment is working to put together a team of three underrepresented minority, first year students who are interested in participating in the inaugural KMK Law Diversity Case Competition. The Diversity Case Competition takes place on January 18 and 19 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It will involve workshops, networking, and team [...]
Each year, the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (“CMBA”) sponsors the Minority Clerkship Program. As the CMBA describes on its website: “[t]his program provides the opportunity for qualified minority law students to work as law clerks or summer associates in a firm, legal department or government agency at the end of their first year of law school. [...]
In an effort to increase diversity at this year's Conference and Career Fair, Equal Justice Works is offering scholarships to those students who believe they will contribute positively to the diversity of the event. Students at Equal Justice Works member schools who live more than 50 miles outside of the Washington D.C metropolitan area are [...]
The University of Nebraska College of Law, in partnership with Ms. JD, is hosting Accelerate 2018: Grow. Rise. Lead. on November 1-2, 2018. This conference is designed to bring together law students from across the Midwest to focus on developing professional skills and building strong networks that will help them succeed both as law students [...]
Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP is launching a new intensive fellowship for minority and LGBTQ law students that will be hosted in Kansas City October 25-27. The Shook Scholars Institute is a diversity and inclusion development program that offers a select group of law students the opportunity to learn litigation and trial skills, leadership and [...]
Frost Brown Todd LLC invites qualified candidates to apply for its annual Law Student Diversity Scholarship program, open to all underrepresented law students including but not limited to African American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian, Native American, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, multi-racial, and LGBT students. All female law students are also eligible, regardless of [...]
The Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (CMBA), through its Diversity & Inclusion Committee, and in partnership with the Midwest Region of the National Black Law Students Association, is co-sponsoring the second annual Midwest Diversity Career Fair on Friday, August 24 at the CMBA. The Career Fair is open to 2L and 3L students as well as [...]