The Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown Law is seeking applicants for a Graduate Fellowship in the Communications and Technology Law Clinic. The Fellow will have substantial responsibility on high profile, cutting edge cases on behalf of public interest clients, supervise and teach law students, and work closely with faculty mentors. The two-year fellowship starts in August 2016. Applications are due no later than January 15, 2016.

The Communications and Technology Law Clinic is the country’s oldest and most respected legal organization representing the public interest in communications law and policy. Formerly known as the Citizens Communications Center, and later the First Amendment and Media Clinic, the new name reflects the expansion of our docket to include privacy, consumer protection, and free speech issues arising in a world where broadband, mobile services, and other new technologies are competing with traditional broadcast, cable, and telephone services. The Communications and Technology Law Clinic is part of the Institute for Public Representation, a clinical program that also practices public interest law in the areas of environmental justice, civil rights, and voting rights.

The Communications and Technology Law Clinic works to foster a media environment that is open and diverse as well as responsive to the needs of the public, especially segments of the public that have been traditionally underserved. Our practice is primarily before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the federal appellate courts. We provide pro bono legal representation to organizations concerned with media reform, civil rights, privacy, children’s welfare, consumer protection, campaign reform, and other public policy issues. Some recent projects include:

• filing a brief in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit supporting lower telephone rates for prisoners;
• filing complaints at the FCC against television stations that fail to disclose the true identity of the sponsors of political ads;
• filing complaints at the FTC concerning children’s websites and apps that violate laws protecting children’s online privacy;
• advocating before the FCC and Court of Appeals for increased ownership of broadcast stations by women and people of color; and
• participating in a rulemaking proceeding at the FCC to foster universal service and reduce the “digital divide” by including broadband service in subsidy programs for low-income households.

For more information about our cases, visit our website and blog, http://www.law.georgetown.edu/academics/academic-programs/clinical-programs/our- clinics/ipr/index.cfm and instituteforpublicrepresentation.org

The Communications and Technology Law Clinic has two Fellows serving staggered two year terms. The Fellows work closely with the two faculty members -- Professor Angela Campbell and Benton Senior Counselor Andrew Jay Schwartzman. During the Fall 2016 semester, Visiting Professor Laura Moy will direct the clinic while Professor Campbell is on sabbatical.

The Fellows are given a great deal of responsibility for the case work. They work directly with client organizations and coalitions to develop strategy, meet with Commissioners, agency staff, and Congressional staff, and draft briefs, comments, and other legal documents. The Fellows get to experience first-hand the interplay between Congress, federal agencies, and federal courts in developing communications and technology policy.

An important part of the Fellows’ job is to supervise the day-to-day work of three to four second and third year law students. They spend much of their time teaching students in a one-on-one setting. They help students develop a research plan, review and comment on drafts, and prepare students for meetings and oral presentations. Fellows also take an active role in planning and teaching the classroom components of the clinic. Fellows will receive training in clinical teaching at an orientation and in classes with Fellows from other Georgetown Law Clinics. Fellows receive an LL.M in Advocacy upon successful completion of their two-year fellowship.

Qualifications

Applicants must have graduated from law school and be admitted to the District of Columbia Bar or another state bar. Preference will be given to applicants with significant experience as practicing lawyers or judicial clerks. We seek applicants who demonstrate

• interest and experience in media, telecommunications, privacy, freedom of speech, or related legal fields;
• strong analytical and communication skills, both oral and written;
• experience teaching or supervising legal work and an interest in teaching law students in a clinical setting; and
• a commitment to serving the public interest.

Pay and Other Benefits

The Fellowship pays an annual stipend of at least $53,500, and includes group health insurance, unlimited free access to a state-of-art, on-site fitness center, and other benefits. The fellowship starts in August 2016 and ends in August 2018.

How to apply?

Persons interested in applying should submit a

• resume;
• law school transcript;
• list of references, including contact information;
• personal statement (not longer than two pages, double-spaced) setting forth the reasons for seeking the fellowship position; and
• a recent legal writing sample that represents the applicant’s most challenging legal work. The writing sample should not be a collaborative work or a piece significantly edited by someone else.

Applications can be submitted anytime until January 15, 2016. Please put the application materials into pdf form and email them to IPR’s Administrator, Niko Perazich, at nwp2@law.georgetown.edu. We will select candidates to be interviewed at our office. Although IPR will not pay candidates’ travel expenses, we will try to arrange interviews at a time convenient for the candidate.

The Institute for Public Representation (IPR) invites applications for a two-year graduate fellow/staff attorney position to start in August 2016 in its Environmental section.

What is IPR?

IPR is a public interest law firm and law school clinic founded by Georgetown University Law Center in 1971. IPR serves as counsel for groups and individuals who are unable to obtain effective legal representation on issues of broad public importance. IPR’s work is currently focused in three areas: civil rights/general public interest law, environmental law, and communications law and policy. IPR provides third-year and occasionally second-year law students an opportunity to develop a wide range of lawyering skills by working on real cases under the supervision of faculty members and fellows (also referred to as staff attorneys).

There are six fellow positions at IPR, and we are now recruiting for two of these two-year positions for the 2016-2018 term, one in the civil rights/general public interest law area and one in the environmental law area. There is a separate announcement for the civil rights/general public interest law position.

IPR’s Environmental Practice

IPR’s work in environmental law primarily focuses on individuals and communities, many of whom are in the Washington metropolitan area, who suffer a disproportionate share of environmental harms and enjoy fewer environmental amenities than other parts of the area in question. Our clients include neighborhood associations, regional, local, and tribal environmental organizations, community activists, and Indian tribes. IPR also represents national organizations on environmental issues of national importance arising under the federal environmental laws. We have worked on litigation involving the full array of federal, state, and local environmental laws as well as civil rights and administrative law, and have appeared in federal and state courts and before local zoning boards, public service commissions, and agency hearing examiners. In addition to litigation, our environmental advocacy extends to federal and District of Columbia rule-making and permitting processes, and frequently involves working to support coalitions of groups concerned with these issues. Much of our work is precedent setting. 

The nature of IPR’s environmental projects varies from year to year depending on client need, attorney interest, and resource availability. Because IPR conducts a clinical legal education program for twenty-four Georgetown law students each semester, eight of whom work on environmental projects, another key factor in selecting projects is their appropriateness for clinical teaching. Additional information about IPR’s projects is available on-line here.

The students, most of whom are in their third year of law school, work at IPR full time and receive credit for an entire semester of law school work. The students work on projects under the supervision of an environmental graduate fellow/staff attorney and faculty member. The students and graduate fellow/staff attorneys also participate in seminars dealing with issues of federal administrative and litigation practice, various substantive fields of law, and issues of professional responsibility as well as team project meetings in which students present some issue that has arisen in their project to their fellow students and supervisors. Fellows/staff attorneys are offered an opportunity to co-teach seminars with a faculty member.

Students have the chance to develop a wide range of lawyering skills as well as to consider how their personal values relate to their professional careers. In addition to the graduate fellow/staff attorneys, the professional staff of IPR includes three full-time members of the law school faculty. The faculty members oversee work on projects and are responsible for teaching the seminars and grading. The faculty member responsible for the environmental projects is Professor Hope M. Babcock. Professor Babcock has directed IPR’s environmental program for twenty-four years and has over forty years of experience in environmental law. She was formerly general counsel of the National Audubon Society and served in the Carter Administration in the U.S. Department of the Interior. She also teaches environmental and natural resources law at Georgetown.

What Do the Graduate Fellow/Staff Attorneys Do?

The graduate fellow/staff attorneys are responsible for the day-to-day supervision of the students, and work closely with the students on improving their lawyering skills, especially legal research, writing, and analysis. Much of the staff attorneys' time is spent guiding students in conducting legal and factual research, reviewing student drafts, making suggestions for improvement, and preparing the students for oral presentations. The staff attorneys have their own opportunities to engage in oral and written advocacy on their projects, including the chance to argue before federal, state, or administrative judges. They take an active role in project development and in planning other IPR activities.

IPR’s fellowship program offers a particularly rewarding opportunity for recent law graduates completing judicial clerkships or lawyers with two to three years of relevant work experience. Past graduate fellow/staff attorneys have emphasized that the IPR experience is unique in several respects. 

First, the fellowship program offers an opportunity to work on interesting, often cutting-edge projects. Because all of our projects are handled on a pro bono basis, we have leeway to choose projects that are important, interesting, and present educational opportunities for both students and graduate fellow/staff attorneys.

Second, graduate fellow/staff attorneys assume substantial responsibility for projects at an early stage of their careers and generally play a more important role in the decision-making process than do their contemporaries in other types of law practice. They also have an opportunity to work on a variety of cases, at different stages of development, so they gain a broader understanding of how cases are developed and how the litigation process, in particular, works. Graduate fellow/staff attorneys work closely with a broad range of public interest organizations, meeting others who are involved in public interest law and seeing how their organizations function.

Third, graduate fellow/staff attorneys acquire a good practical working knowledge of both specific subject matter areas and of the federal, state, and local administrative and judicial process.

Fourth, graduate fellow/staff attorneys have an opportunity to work closely with experienced, full time faculty members, who have substantial litigation and substantive expertise. For those with an interest in clinical teaching, graduate fellow/staff attorneys get first-hand experience in clinical supervision, and also participate in, and often co-teach, seminars. As part of the Law Center community, graduate fellow/staff attorneys are urged to attend faculty workshops and other programs, and to participate in a variety of on- and off-campus activities.

Pay and other benefits

The annual stipend for the position will be at least $53,500 plus an opportunity to participate in group health insurance and other benefits, including unlimited free access to a state-of-art, on-site fitness center. The fellowship will start in August 2016 and end in August 2018. Georgetown University Law Center awards an LL.M in Advocacy to each fellow upon completion of their two-year term.

What Qualifications Are We Looking For?

We are looking for applicants who demonstrate the following:

•  a commitment to public interest law
• prior work experience in environmental law or a judicial clerkship
• strong legal writing and communications skills and experience and/or interest in helping others improve their legal writing, research, and analytical skills
• an interest in (and aptitude for) clinical legal education

Graduate fellow/staff attorneys must be members of the D.C. Bar or take steps to apply for membership in the D.C. Bar (through examination or reciprocity) upon being accepted for the position.

How to Apply?

Applicants for the fellowship should submit the following:

• a resume and law school transcript
  
• a list of references, including contact information
• a recent legal writing sample of any length that represents the applicant’s most challenging legal work (The writing sample should not be a collaborative work or a piece significantly edited by someone else.)
• a brief statement (not longer than one single-spaced page) explaining the applicant’s interest in the position.

Send your application materials in a PDF file attached to an email to IPR’s Administrator, Niko Perazich, at nwp2@law.georgetown.edu. The application deadline is Monday December 7th 2015.

After reviewing the application materials, we will select a small number of applicants to be interviewed at our office. While IPR cannot pay applicants’ travel expenses, we will try to arrange interviews at a time most convenient for the applicant.

The University of Akron School of Law anticipates hiring a 12-month clinical faculty member (presumptively renewable, non-tenure track) to begin in Fall 2016.

The new clinical faculty member will join two other full-time clinical faculty, and will add to a rich array of existing programs which include: Civil Litigation Clinic (cases referred from Community Legal Aid, primarily landlord-tenant), Jail Inmate Assistance Legal Clinic, our award-winning Re-entry Clinics (Expungement, Clemency, Certificate of Qualification for Employment (CQE), and Human Trafficking), SEED Legal Clinic (providing services for small businesses and 2015 Legal Services Champion Award winner from the U.S. Small Business Administration) and Trademark Clinic. We anticipate that a new clinician will be able to establish one or more new clinical offerings according to his or her substantive interests to complement the Law School’s strategic goals and the particular needs of the community. Areas of particular interest include International Human Rights, Immigration, Family Law, and Health Law.

The committee is interested in candidates with a commitment to excellence in clinical teaching, community engagement, and parallel scholarly research.

The University of Akron School of Law is a public, mid-size law school of approximately 450  students located in the Akron/Cleveland metropolitan area. Akron Law offers excellent teaching, relatively low tuition and a commitment to student success, as well as a strong relationship with the local and regional bar. Akron Law prides itself on outcomes including our high bar passage rate (first in Ohio for the Feb 2015 exam), award-winning clinical programs, national championship trial team program and various areas of excellence.

Required Qualifications: Requires a J.D. degree and a license to practice law, as well as professional practice experience.

Preferred Qualifications: A demonstrated record of or potential for effective clinical teaching and successful scholarship.

For complete details and to apply for this position, visit: http://www.uakron.edu/jobs. Job ID# 9221. While all candidates are required to submit their applications via this centralized system, please feel free to direct any inquiries to Professor Sarah Cravens, Chair of the search committee, at cravens@uakron.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately. Anticipated start date: July 1, 2016. The University of Akron is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity and to the principles of affirmative action in accordance with state and federal laws.

The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law seeks a Managing Director for its Clinical Law Program.

The Managing Director is a critical member of the Clinical Law Program's management team. The Program operates as a law firm. Students and attorneys in the Program provide over 110,000 hours of free legal services each year throughout Maryland. The students are admitted to practice law pursuant to Maryland's state and federal student practice rules, supervised by professors and other supervising attorneys.

This position oversees and/or monitors all aspects related to law firm management, including supervising paralegals and support staff; overseeing administrative matters related to the Program; managing records related to the Program's law practice-related bank accounts; interacting with clinic students, faculty and staff; being available to students for consultation when faculty are not available (particularly related to practice-related emergencies); and sharing responsibility for the integrity and vision of the Program.

Responding to the needs of faculty and 100+ student-attorneys who practice in the Program each semester is a regular staple of the job. The Managing Director is the administrative anchor of the Program and is expected to use her/his legal expertise in client service, case management and law practice administration to help ensure that the highest level of client service is delivered, that the law firm runs efficiently and that the overall Program remains on the cutting edge of delivering legal services to individuals, families and communities who otherwise lack access to counsel. The Managing Director works closely with the professors and attorneys in the Clinical Law Program. He/she reports directly to the Co-Directors of the Clinical Law Program.

Essential Functions:

Manages administrative support personnel in alignment with the Clinical Law Program's objectives in order to promote maximum staff member benefit and effectiveness as well as overall organization and productivity. Conducts annual performance evaluations of administrative support personnel.

Manages the day-to-day operations of the Clinical Law Program, in consultation with the Co-Directors. Researches issues related to law firm management and presents ideas and proposals for faculty consideration and vote. Develops and implements administrative procedures to support all aspects of clinical law practice including communication, file maintenance, archiving and personnel.

Coordinates (and may help present) the Student-Attorney Training programs at the beginning of each semester, in consultation with faculty and the Co-Directors of the Clinical Law Program. Manages and helps develop content for the Clinical Law Program's law practice Blackboard page.

Manages student admission to practice law in Maryland's state and federal courts. Assists Co-Directors with advising students on course selection, data collection and case management.

Manages and coordinates the transition of cases semester to semester to ensure continuation of client services. Also ensures continuity of client representation over holiday and summer breaks as needed.

Gathers and analyzes data required by malpractice insurance carrier. Responds to requests for data information from the law school's administration, other clinical law programs and public and private agencies.

Gathers data needed for grant applications and evaluation. Maintains records relating to the budget including Clinical Law Program's expenditures and expenses. Assists with management of grants and proposal development.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Possesses a thorough knowledge of position requirements and is able to perform position in compliance with all requirements/regulations/laws. Ability to maintain high standards with the work being performed and maintain awareness with trends and influences. Assumes personal responsibility for all outcomes; makes effective and timely decisions; and learns how to effectively use technology. Maintains productivity and uses knowledge strategies to increase knowledge base.

Ability to effectively communicate both verbal and written thoughts, ideas, and facts. Writes and presents information in a clear and concise way. Interprets and understands written information and is able to listen attentively to verbal and non-verbal cues that lead to a deeper understanding.

Ability to work cooperatively with others and demonstrates professional, ethical, respectful, and courteous behavior when interacting with others. Demonstrate pleasant and positive interactions with other to meet customer expectations, and provide follow up with customers. Reaches compromise and consensus to influence and negotiate. Remains calm and is able to manage conflict, and works well with a diverse workforce. Approachable style allows others to be open in sharing thoughts and ideas.

Demonstrate computer literacy with a focus on law practice management applications.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: J.D. Degree; admission to the Maryland Bar.

Experience: Three (3) years of experience managing a small to large firm or equivalent organization, including experience working with clients.

Hiring Range: Commensurate with education and experience

Closing Deadline: 11/29/2015

Original Posting Date: 10/28/2015

If accommodations are needed, contact Staffing & Career Services at 410-706-7171, Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 4:30pm EST. Maryland Relay can be accessed by dialing 711 (in-state) or 1-800-735-2258.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

The Los Angeles Asylum Office is currently recruiting for Asylum Officers. The public job announcement, which posted today and closes Friday, October 30th, can be found here: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/418813600 JOB SUMMARY: Do you desire to protect American interests and secure our Nation while building a meaningful and rewarding career? If so, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is calling. DHS components work collectively to prevent terrorism, secure borders, enforce and administer immigration laws, safeguard cyberspace and ensure resilience to disasters. The vitality and magnitude of this mission is achieved by a diverse workforce spanning hundreds of occupations. Make an impact; join DHS. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services secures America's promise as a nation of immigrants by providing accurate and useful information to our customers, granting immigration and citizenship benefits, promoting an awareness and understanding of citizenship, and ensuring the integrity of our immigration system. Visit us at http://www.uscis.gov/. Every day, our Asylum Officers adjudicate asylum applications, conduct credible/reasonable fear screenings, and adjudicate other benefit applications managed by the asylum program, including motions to reopen and reconsider.

The University of Georgia School of  Law invites applications for the position of Director of the Wilbanks Center for Child Sexual Assault and Exploitation Survivors, beginning November 2015.  The position is secured by a 12-month, annually renewable contract.  Research and publication are not expected. We encourage you to forward this announcement to anyone who you think might have an interest in the position.

Applications received  by November 6, 2015 are assured of consideration. All persons interested in applying should send a letter of interest and a resume to Cindy Wentworth, University of Georgia School of Law, Herty Drive, Athens, GA 30602. A link for applications is here.  https://apps.itos.uga.edu/ach/position/30387

The Center is being created in response to the Georgia legislature's passage of House Bill 17, which created a two-year window of relief from the statute of limitations for bringing civil charges in the case of child sexual abuse.  Regardless of when the abuse occurred, victims can bring suit against their abusers until the window closes on July 1, 2017.  After that time, the law requires suits to be brought forward before the victim reaches 23 years of age or within two years of becoming aware of the abuse, the memories of which are often repressed until later in life.

The Center Director’s Office is located in downtown Athens, Georgia.  The Center represents clients who have been sexually abused or exploited as children in litigation against their abusers.  The Director will be responsible for operationalizing the Center; teaching and supervising up to eight students each spring, summer and fall semester; managing a law practice consisting of all phases of tort litigation brought on behalf of child sexual assault and exploitation survivors against the perpetrators of the assault; collaborating with other service agencies to strengthen protections for victims of child sexual abuse and exploitation; supervising a fellow; and managing a litigation budget.   

Applicants must have a J.D. from an accredited university, be licensed to practice in Georgia (or eligible to waive into the Georgia bar) and ideally will have at least five years of relevant law practice experience. Preference will be given to applicants with demonstrated experience in teaching, especially clinical law teaching, and to applicants with a demonstrated commitment to working with child sexual abuse and exploitation victims.

If you have questions, contact Erica J. Hashimoto, (706) 542-5098, hashimo@uga.edu.

Duke University School of Law seeks to appoint a new faculty member (open with regard to rank) to lead the school’s Externship Program. This is a full-time position and includes both teaching and administrative responsibilities.

Duke Law’s Externship Program offers a range of externship opportunities, including through the Duke in DC program, which provide immersive educational experiences for students, principally in non-profit and governmental settings. The Program Director is responsible for the rigor and high quality of the students’ educational experiences in the program, maintaining and expanding externship opportunities throughout the community, and ensuring that the Externship Program continues to meet and exceed best Practices in the field and applicable regulatory standards.

In addition to a strong record of, or demonstrated potential for, effective teaching in an experiential setting and strong administrative skills, the ideal candidate will have the energy, enthusiasm and vision needed to lead the Externship Program at this time of change in American Legal Education.

This is an exciting time for clinical and experiential education at Duke Law School. The Clinical Program, which currently consists of 10 clinical courses, is an integral component of the Law School’s curricular focus on professional development and problem solving. The candidate will be a member of the clinical faculty and will be expected to actively collaborate with these colleagues to continue to grow and strengthen this key part of the curriculum.

Confidential review of applications will begin immediately and continue until an appointment is made. To ensure full consideration, applications should be received by November 30, 2015.

Candidates must hold a J.D. degree, have a strong academic record and at least three years of law-related professional experience after law school. Prior clinical teaching experience is strongly preferred but is not required. The successful candidate must have been admitted to a state bar and, if not already a member of the North Carolina bar, become a member within twelve months of accepting the appointment.

Duke University and Duke University Health System is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, or disability.

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Send a cover letter describing your interest in the position as well as a current curriculum vitae to:

Externship Program Director Search

c/o: Janse Haywood

Duke University School of Law

Box 90360

Science Drive & Towerview Rd.

Durham, NC 27707

Applicants may also submit their materials via email to Ms. Haywood at Haywood@law.duke.edu

The University of Michigan Law Clinical Fellows Program seeks applicants for a fellowship in its Michigan Innocence Clinic. This is a two-year appointment with the possibility of extension for a third year.

The Clinical Fellows Program is designed to allow attorneys to explore the possibility of a career in clinical teaching and fully support them in that endeavor. Michigan Clinical Fellows gain valuable experience and mentoring in clinical pedagogy and in their substantive area of practice. Their duties include clinical teaching and student supervision in conjunction with a clinic director, and participation in the operation and development of the clinic in which they teach. Support is provided for professional development and scholarship.

The Michigan Innocence Clinic works to exonerate actually innocent criminal defendants who have been convicted in state or federal court in Michigan. The Clinic primarily works on cases where there is no DNA to test, and so the work of the Clinic largely involves finding new witnesses, searching for suppressed evidence, and challenging discredited or outdated forensic science. The Clinic opened in 2009 and has so far freed nine men and two women who had collectively served over 100 years in prison for crimes they did not commit.

The successful applicant will have a strong interest in clinical teaching, a demonstrated commitment to public interest lawyering, and potential for scholarship and success as a clinical teacher. Experience with criminal litigation and/or innocence work is strongly preferred. Candidates must hold a J.D. degree and be eligible for licensure in Michigan. Michigan’s Clinical Fellows salaries and benefits are very competitive. The fellowship begins on a date to be determined sometime during the late spring or summer of 2016, depending on the availability of the successful candidate.

Questions can be directed to Associate Dean David Santacroce at dasanta@umich.edu or 734-763-4319. We will begin reviewing applications on November 16th and will accept them until the position is filled. Applicants should send a letter of interest and résumé to:

John W. Lemmer

Experiential Education Business Administrator

The University of Michigan Law School

701 S. State Street

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1215

jwlemmer@umich.edu

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity employer.

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DAVID A. CLARKE SCHOOL OF LAW (UDC-DCSL) invites applications for a tenure track law professor to work in the Immigration Clinic beginning July 16, 2016 and continuing through the academic year 2016-2017. We will consider exceptionally talented applicants at the assistant professor level. Candidates must demonstrate a record of strong academic performance and excellent potential for scholarly achievement. Relevant experience and a demonstrated potential for outstanding clinical teaching is expected.

The UDC David A. Clarke School of Immigration and Human Rights Clinic represents clients in Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the United States Court of Appeals. The Clinic provides legal representation for noncitizens in removal proceedings and assists them in applying for relief from removal and other benefits. Cases include defensive asylum applications, Cancellation of Removal; waivers; appealing of removal orders for detained noncitizens by the Immigration Court to the Board of Immigration Appeals and/or the Circuit Courts of Appeals; and providing other related services.

UDC-DCSL is one of only six American Bar Association accredited law schools at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and is the nation’s only urban, public land grant university. UDC-DCSL has a three-part statutory mission:

• to recruit and enroll students from groups underrepresented at the bar,
• to provide a well-rounded theoretical and practical legal education that will enable students to be effective and ethical advocates, and
• to represent the legal needs of low-income residents through the School's legal clinics.

The School of Law has been a leader in experiential and clinical education for more than 40 years beginning with its predecessor Antioch School of Law. Every student completes two 350 hour clinical courses, as well as forty hours of community service. UDC-DCSL offers nine legal clinics in the following areas: juvenile and special education; housing and consumer; general practice; community development; legislation; low-income taxpayer; government accountability; immigration and human rights and criminal defense.

UDC-DCSL is recognized for its commitment to diversity and to clinical education. The Law School ranked 7th in the nation in Law School Clinical Programs (US News and World Report, 2015); 2nd most diverse law school in the U.S. (US News and World Report, 2015); 1st most chosen by older students (Princeton Review, 2014); 2nd most diverse faculty (Princeton Review, 2014); 8th best environment for minority students (Princeton Review, 2014); 8th most liberal students (Princeton Review, 2014); and Top 20 most innovative law school (PreLaw Magazine, 2012).

Although we will accept applications until the position is filled, we strongly encourage interested applicants to submit applications immediately. Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume. UDC-DCSL has a strong commitment to diversity among its faculty and encourages applications from minorities and women.

Contact: Professor Andrew G. Ferguson, Co-Chair, Faculty Appointments Committee, University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law, 4200 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008. (email: to Faculty Secretary, Ms. Camille V’Estres – camille.vestres@udc.edu).

The Consumer Justice Clinic of the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) is seeking a Staff Attorney/Clinical Supervisor to provide representation and advocacy on behalf of low-income consumers and to assist with the training and supervision of law student interns. The ideal candidate is a strong legal advocate with excellent case management and organizational skills; experience in litigation and/or consumer law; interest in training law students; and a passion for working with low-income people.

EBCLC is a non-profit organization founded in 1988 to provide high-quality legal services to low-income clients and educational opportunities for law students and community volunteers. As UC Berkeley Law School's community-based clinic, EBCLC is currently the largest provider of free legal services for low-income residents in the East Bay, with a staff of 40 and an annual roster of 150 law student interns providing services to 5,000 clients each year.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide advice, counsel and limited scope representation to clients assisted through our weekly community-based clinics on a variety of consumer issues: Issues include debt collection defense, student loans, car fraud, predatory lending, and consumer scams, particularly those that target immigrant communities such as notario fraud, fraudulent crossborder services, employment and educational scams, and ESL scams

• Represent clients in litigation, both debt collection defense and affirmative litigation

• Engage in policy advocacy related to consumer law at the local and state level

• Supervise clinical law students in the performance of the above duties, including substantive law and skills training, weekly individual and group case reviews, and day-to-day monitoring

• Complete administrative tasks as assigned by Supervisor or Executive Director, such as those related to grant reporting

• Participate in on-going professional development to improve client services and student supervision

• Additional tasks as assigned by Supervisor

Minimum Qualifications

• J.D. degree required, member of the California State Bar in good standing

• Experience providing legal services to low-income individuals

• Minimum 2 years of litigation experience, preferably in consumer law

• Demonstrated excellent written and oral advocacy skills

• Experience with, or strong interest in, student supervision and teaching

• Ability to manage a demanding case load; excellent time management, priority-setting and organizational skills

• Ability to work effectively with a diverse range of groups, including people of color, homeless clients, immigrants, non-English speakers, clients with mental disabilities, clients experiencing domestic violence, law students, service providers, government employees, elected officials and law school faculty 

• Great interpersonal skills, flexibility and demonstrated ability to work within a team

• Bilingual skills in Spanish or Cantonese

Salary

This is a full-time (35 hour work week) regular salaried position starting on January 11, 2016.

Nonprofit salary commensurate with experience; generous benefits package including 100% employer-funded medical, dental, and vision plans, and paid time off.

Application Procedure

Submit applications by email to jobs@ebclc.org; by mail to East Bay Community Law Center, 2921 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA 94703; or by fax to (510) 548-2566. Applications should include a cover letter, resume, short writing sample, and names/contact information for two professional references. Deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, November 13, 2015.

EBCLC is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, age, ethnic background, sex, disability or sexual orientation. People of color, women, LGBTQ people and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.