WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for the new position of Assistant Director and Lecturer in Law in its Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Clinic, one of eighteen law clinic and externship courses offered by the Law School’s Clinical Education Program (http://law.wustl.edu/clinicaled/pages.aspx?id=10030).

The Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Clinic, through its second- and third-year law students, provides pro bono business and transactional legal services to non-profit organizations and qualifying new and emerging for-profit organizations and entrepreneurs. The Assistant Director is expected to assist the clinic’s Director in supervising and monitoring the work of the students, handle matters relating to the day-to-day administration of the clinic law office and its cases, and assume primary responsibility for clinic cases that begin or are not concluded during the academic year. The Assistant Director will be primarily responsible for intellectual property matters and also act on behalf of the Director during her absence.

Qualifications:

Candidates must have a J.D. degree, be admitted or eligible to practice law in Missouri (i.e., must be a member of the Missouri bar or eligible for admission as a law teacher without examination pursuant to Missouri Supreme Court Rule 13.06).

Candidates should have significant experience practicing transactional and intellectual property law, outstanding legal research and writing skills, and promise as a mentor for law students.

Applicant Special Instructions:

Applicants must submit an online application for Job Position:  Assistant Director and Lecturer in Law, Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Clinic - 34120 at https://jobs.wustl.edu/psc/APPLHRMS/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJO B.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&REL_ACTION=Yes&SiteId=1&HRS_JO_PST_TYPE=E&H RS_JOB_OPENING_ID=34120&HRS_JO_PST_SEQ=1.

For fullest consideration, apply by July 20, 2016.

Washington University School of Law is committed to diversity and encourages applications from racial and ethnic groups, women, persons with disabilities, and other under-represented groups.