LINK: "Legal Fellow" - Fair Housing Justice Center

Location: New York City

Description:
The Fair Housing Justice Center, Inc. ("FHJC") is a non-profit civil rights organization that serves New York City and the seven suburban counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, and Westchester. Our mission is to: 1) challenge systemic housing discrimination; 2) to promote policies that foster open and inclusive communities; and, 3) to strengthen the enforcement of local, state, and federal fair housing laws.

The Legal Fellow is responsible for coordination of the FHJC legal program and providing training and direct support to FHJC staff and cooperating attorneys. This is an ideal one-year opportunity for a recent graduate who has access to fellowship money or is participating in an associate deferral program. This is an unpaid position but depending on the applicant’s qualifications, a minimal compensation package may be considered.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Recruits and coordinates training for attorneys to participate as FHJC cooperating attorneys
• Supervises legal interns and fellows
• Provides ongoing information about legal developments and legal resources available to cooperating attorneys and FHJC staff
• Works closely with cooperating attorneys to provide legal resources and post-referral assistance
• Works closely with administrative enforcement agencies to ensure that referred complaints are fully investigated in a timely manner
• Works with Field Services Director to develop and implement systemic investigations that may form the basis for legal challenges designed to secure compliance with fair housing laws and obtain community-based remedies, including the creation of mixed-income housing opportunities
• Prepares amicus briefs for FHJC
• Conducts fair housing outreach activities to community organizations

Qualifications:
• J.D. required
• One year work or internship experience in fair housing and civil rights cases helpful but not required
• Excellent legal research and analytical skills
• Supervisory skills and/or experience preferred
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

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LINK: "Intellectual Property Analyst" - Wind River

Location: Alameda, California

Note: This is an alternative legal position.

Description:
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader in embedded and mobile software, and has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981. Wind River’s technology is the most widely adopted embedded software on the planet, and found in more than 500 million devices as varied as military aircraft displays, robotics and telecommunications equipment to automotive electronics, mobile phones, and set-top boxes.

Wind River is looking for an Intellectual Property (IP) Analyst who would be responsible for:
* Conducting IP due diligence reviews of the company’s software products to ensure:
- All 3rd party IP has been identified and properly licensed
- Product distributions are compliant with respect to corresponding open source licensing terms
- Each use of 3rd party IP is compatible with the company’s business objectives; and
- The source code has been properly vetted
* Implementing business processes to support different IP management objectives and verify staff compliance with respect to those processes.
* Educating engineering staff and contractors on IP related concepts, policies and process.
* Assisting the different product groups in executing their respective IP business strategies.
* Reviewing IP contributions for the open source community.
* Coordinating IP related tasks across functional groups (e.g., engineering, legal, marketing and sales).
* Assist with software licensing negotiations.

Qualifications:
We expect candidates to have:
* A bachelor’s degree or comparable field-related work experience.
* Excellent analytical skills
* A high degree of intelligence with strong ability to self-educate
* Proven attention to detail
* Strong work ethic
* Solid English writing and oral communication skills.
* High level of interpersonal skills and ability to work in a proactive and service oriented manner.
* Proficient PC skills including Microsoft Word and Excel.

Although the following are not required, each represents a significant plus:
* A bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering
* A law degree from an from an accredited law school
* Knowledge of intellectual property matters (copyright, trademarks, patents, trade secrets)
* Experience with software licensing
* Software programming experience
* Strong project management skills and experience

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LINK: "District Court Law Clerk" - Seventh Judicial District, State of Minneosta

Location: St. Cloud, Minnesota

Description:
The Honorable Skipper Pearson and Frank Kundrat, chambered in the Stearns County Court House, St. Cloud, Minnesota, are seeking a qualified person to fill a full-time judicial law clerk position. Candidates should have solid academic credentials and strong research, analytical and writing skills. Computer literacy is important; familiarity with Westlaw and Microsoft Word/Windows operating system is preferred. The ability to create and maintain a work environment that is supportive of culturally and racially diverse issues is essential.

Appointment to this position is through June 30, 2011 with the possibility of extending the appointment beyond June 30th subject to the availability of funding.

Example of Duties:
(Any one position may not include all of the duties listed, nor do the examples cover all the duties which may be performed.)
• Reviews, studies, researches, and annotates laws, court decisions, documents, opinions, briefs, and related legal authorities.
• Prepares briefs, legal memoranda, and statement of issues involved, including appropriate suggestions or recommendations to the justice or judge.
• Compiles references on laws and decisions necessary for legal determinations.
• Confers with justice, judge or court official concerning legal questions, construction of documents and granting of orders.
• Attends court sessions to hear oral arguments and records necessary case information; maintain records attendant to court proceedings.
• May perform courtroom duties including calling the calendar; swearing in jury panels and witness; taking court minutes; and assisting in various court proceedings such as arraignments, motions, hearings, pre-trial conferences and trials.

Typical Qualifications:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION:
• Graduate of an accredited law school.
• Attorney who has taken the Bar is preferred

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LINK: "Law Clerk" - State of Montana

Location: Bozeman, Montana

Description:
The successful candidate will provide legal research and support in adjudication water rights for the Honorable Bruce Loble and water masters. The successful candidate will provide extensive research, compile references on laws and decisions, draft legal memos on contested motions, provide case management and conduct scheduling conferences and other conferences as assigned by the judge. The clerk must have a JD. Experience or coursework in water or natural resource law is preferred but not required.

- Position is a 12 month appointment with the possibility of an extension at the discretion of the chief judge.
- A criminal background check will be required.
- An employee new to the Judicial Branch will serve a one-year probationary period.
- Some travel within the state is required

Education/Experience:
Applicants must have a JD, legal research experience and excellent writing skills. New graduates as well as experienced attorneys will be considered.

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LINK: "Legal Intern / Intern E-BE" - Ohio State University Medical Center

Location: Columbus, Ohio

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Description:
The Department of Legal Services is charged with the responsibility of facilitating the conduct of business in a legally sound and efficient manner, protecting the resources of the Medical Center and performing the duties of loss prevention, claims management, and risk financing. The successful candidate will become familiar with system scope and project objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member.

This is a one year Special A Term position beginning August 30, 2010 through June 30, 2011. Working under the direct supervision of staff attorneys, the Legal Fellow will be responsible for: 1) Becoming acquainted with the issues associated with the employment of physicians and other health care personnel; and 2) Preparing and reviewing contracts on behalf of the OSU Medical Center related to the employment of physicians and other health care personnel.

Education and Experience:
Recent law school graduate with: Competency in business, contracts, legal writing or property and real estate; Excellent research, analytic and problem-solving skills; Strong verbal and written communication skills; Strong computing technology skills; Strong organizational and time-management skills;

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The Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC) is a public interest law firm dedicated to protecting and promoting the human rights of immigrants of all nationalities. FIAC is interested in sponsoring a highly-qualified law student entering his/her third year or a recent graduate to apply for a post-graduate Equal Justice Works or other fellowship to work with FIAC’s Detention and Immigration Units.

The fellowship may include: representing individuals detained at BTC in their immigration cases, gathering information about detainees’ arrests in order to develop potential areas of advocacy and/or litigation around racial profiling and unlawful detention, conducting Know Your Rights presentation for immigration detainees, and monitoring the treatment of immigrants at BTC. [...] Continue Reading...

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LexisNexis is a leading global provider of business information solutions to professionals in a variety of areas, including: legal, corporate, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic, and risk and compliance assessment. LexisNexis helps customers achieve their goals in more than 100 countries, across six continents, with over 18,000 employees. Regardless of your location, you'll work together with your colleagues as one team - a unified network of professionals who share a passion for solving problems, realizing results, and pushing the boundaries of what knowledge can do.

This position exists to create preference among law students, librarians and professors in a temporarily assigned territory of law schools. This position will work in an assigned territory as needed based on the business needs.
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Under General Supervision of the Director, Legal Solutions:
• Responsible for managing electronic evidence services projects.
• Responsible for defining project assumptions and requirements, setting client expectations with regards to timelines and costs, and managing customer relations throughout the entirety of the project.
• Responsible as the primary interface with all clients including law firms, corporations and partners.

Essential Functions:
• Define the application architecture
• Resolve high-level functional issues
• Align technology platform with business requirements, while achieving cost and quality goals [...] Continue Reading...

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The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) is pleased to announce a partnership with Prudential Financial, Inc. (Prudential) to provide a meaningful fellowship opportunity to a highly-motivated recent law school graduate. Through this partnership, NAPABA will select a 2010 law school graduate to join the Prudential Law Department as the NAPABA-Prudential Law Fellow.

The Fellow will work full-time for 18 months in Prudential’s Newark, NJ, offices beginning on December 1, 2010. During this time, the fellow may work in up to three Law Department divisions, which may include the Insurance, Investments, Litigation/Regulatory, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Employment & Labor, Employee Benefits and International divisions. The Fellow will be paid an annual salary of US$60,000 with benefits. The Fellow will be expected to seek employment outside of the Prudential Law Department after the end of the fellowship. [...] Continue Reading...

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New Mexico Appleseed solves problems affecting the daily lives of New Mexico residents through programs that expand access to opportunity: legal, economic and social. We work with volunteer attorneys, business leaders, government and grassroots advocates to identify critical issues, conduct thorough research and advocate for effective solutions. We organize innovative public-private partnerships, publish legal and policy strategies, and act as a non-partisan, independent voice for reform.

New Mexico Appleseed is offering a two-year (second year contingent on funding) legal fellowship to a law school graduate and member of a bar. NM Appleseed seeks an applicant with advanced research, analytical, and writing abilities. The applicant must have the leadership skills to bring together parties with divergent interests, be a self-starter, and willing to do both the exciting policy work and the less exciting grunt work involved with a small nonprofit. Beginning in the fall of 2010, the New Mexico Appleseed Fellow would work to combat hunger in the state by becoming a knowledge expert on hunger policy. [...] Continue Reading...

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