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Public Interest Career Fairs
There are two popular public interest fairs in D.C., and several across the country. Fairs provide job interview opportunities and a chance to speak with employers informally during "table talk."
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Equal Justice Works Annual Career Fair - October 24 & 25, 2009, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC
Equal Justice Works (EJW) holds the country's largest public interest career fair. Beginning in August, you can review more than 200 employers that will be interviewing and for what types of positions - summer or post-graduate, paid or unpaid. The Greater Washington, DC/Baltimore Public Service Career Fair - January 30, 2009
This job fair is co-sponsored by six area law schools (including WCL) and the Federal Bar Association. In past years, more than 100 government and public interest employers participated.Other Public Interest Career Fairs - (Visit Calendar of Events)
This provides information on regional public interest career fairs across the country.
Public Interest Student Conferences
Students can attend some of the country's largest student-led public interest conferences. Conferences provide students with the opportunity to meet other public interest-minded students, practitioners and national experts in the public interest field. Some of the most popular conferences are described below.
- The Rebellious Lawyering Conference
Join hundreds of students, practitioners, and activists for a weekend of panels, workshops, and events at the largest student-run public interest law conference in the country. Sponsored by Yale Law School.
- The Robert M. Cover Retreat
Brings together 150 public interest law students, practitioners, and professors to a beautiful lakeside wooded New Hampshire retreat to spend a weekend developing personal connections, discussing issues important to careers and lives, and learning from one another.
- The Norman Amaker Public Interest Law Retreat
Joins law students from throughout the country to relax from the frantic pace and high pressure of law school for a retreat and forge a coalition of students, professors and practitioners to support social justice- orientated law students pursing careers in the public interest.
- The Trina Grillo Public Interest and Social Justice Retreat
Provides a unique opportunity for public interest and social justice-oriented law students, faculty, and practitioners to forge an alliance by exchanging viewpoints, exploring career opportunities and formulating strategies for social justice.
Office of Career & Professional Development • American University Washington College of Law
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