MN asks: So what do you do if you can't find anything? If everything has been filled or you can't afford to go 1000 away from where you are now and it's too late for summer school?
For the sake of having a gender for pronoun purposes, I'm making MN a guy. I am guessing he is taking about summer jobs, though he doesn't indicate if its 1L or 2L summer. He posted the question July 1, which is really late. I would respectfully suggest that not everything has been filled. Just everything that might pay him a salary.
If its 1L summer and you don't have anything legal, it is not the worst thing ever. I know many people who didn't do legal work last summer. It made interviews more difficult in the fall, but you know, if you have to wait tables to pay the bills, then that's what you have to do. I still think there is a way to work some legal work if you don't have other demands on your time (like a kid.)
Have you contacted solo or small practitioners and volunteer to do 10 hours of legal research and writing a week in exchange for a reference and the chance to sit in on hearings etc.? Even if its a plaintiff's lawyer and you want to do defense work, you will learn something and have the chance to network. Have you contacted local non-profits to see if they or their counsel need a student volunteer? Similar reason.
Does it suck to work for free? You bet.
But it pays off in experience and something to talk about that will hopefully lead to the job you want.
Any others have advice?
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
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If you're willing to do unpaid work try DA's offices, public defender agencies, local EEOC offices (they will frequently take volunteers), and talk to your professors to see if they have any projects you could help with.
Local DA's and PD's by me are actually pretty competitive... even for unpaid jobs, which is why I didn't include it. I assumed such positions would have been filled.
You started this after I graduated! Great idea, great advice, it's just... you started after I graduated!
Oh well. I'm glad it's around for the next generation.
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This is very true. Our government is chipping away at civil rights almost daily.
Just about anyone can be labeled a "sex offender" now. Mothers who breastfeed, fathers who bathe their kids, boyfriends who accept nude photos of their girlfriends in class, teens having consensual sex with other teens, people who urinate in public...the list goes on.
These days, it's difficult to tell who a real predator is since there are so many on the registry like the ones above.
This is corruption and politicians who enforce these broad-reaching laws should be held accountable.
We need to change laws so they only center on the truly dangerous and stop wasting tax dollars chasing after people who pose no risk to public safety.
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