Career Events

22nd Annual Southern California Public Interest Career Day

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2007
8:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW
  

OVERVIEW

UCLA School of Law is pleased to host the 22nd Annual Southern California Public Interest Career Day.  While held at UCLA School of Law, the Career Day is cosponsored by the Southern California-area law schools, including California Western, Chapman, Loyola, Pepperdine, Southwestern, Thomas Jefferson, University of San Diego, University of Southern California, and Whittier. The annual Career Day is designed to expose law students to the practice of law in the public interest and to encourage students to consider a public interest career path.  More than 100 nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and private firms are participating in Career Day activities. 

Public Interest Career Day is comprised of a number of different activities:

• "Prescheduled, formal interviews for summer and/or postgraduate positions.
• "An afternoon panel discussion, "Criminal Law:  Prosecution and Defense."
• "A series of informal lunchtime discussions, each focusing on a different substantive area of public interest practice (e.g., children and youth, environmental law, labor law)
• " Informal "table-talk," with representatives of more than 85 of the participating organizations, agencies and firms.

REGISTRATION

For Students:

Attendance is open to all law students from the cosponsoring law schools, as well as to law students from law schools outside Southern California.   Please note, however, that only law students from the cosponsoring schools are eligible to participate in the prescheduled, formal interviews.  There is no need to preregister and there is no registration fee.

For Organizations, Agencies and Firms:

If you would like to participate in this year's Career Day, please contact: 

Catherine Mayorkas
Director, Public Interest Programs
UCLA School of Law
(310) 206-9155
mayorkas@law.ucla.edu

Organizations, agencies and firms must preregister, although there is no registration fee.  As of January 13, registration for the interviewing component is closed.  Registration for informal "table-talk," as well as the panel and lunchtime discussions, remains open until January 25.  To register, please contact Rochelle Adelman at adelman@law.ucla.edu.

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS, AGENCIES AND FIRMS

Entities Participating in Table-Talk:

ACLU Drug Law Reform Project
Alliance for Children's Rights
Anti-Defamation League
Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center
Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Bay Area Legal Aid
Bet Tzedek Legal Services
Break the Cycle
California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Various Divisions
California Franchise Tax Board
California Lawyers for the Arts
California Public Utilities Commission
California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.
California Teachers Association
California Women's Law Center
Capital Fellows Programs
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)
Central American Resource Center  (CARECEN)
Children's Law Center of Los Angeles
Community Legal Services
Disability Rights Legal Center
El Rescate Legal Services
Eviction Defense Network
Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc.
Federal Public Defender's Office
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP [MALDEF/NAACP LDF Fellowship]
Gilbert & Sackman
Glendale YWCA
Greater Bakersfield Legal Assistance, Inc.
Greenlining Institute
Hadsell & Stormer, Inc.
Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law
HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA)
Holguin & Garfield, APLC
Housing Rights Center
Immigration Center for Women and Children
Inner City Law Center
Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy
Lambda Legal
Learning Rights Law Center
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Legal Services of Northern California
Los Angeles Center for Law & Justice
Los Angeles City Attorney's Office
Los Angeles County Department of Consumer Affairs
Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office
Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission
Los Angeles County Office of Independent Review -- Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office 
Los Angeles County Superior Court (Juvenile Division)
Los Angeles County Superior Court (Resource Center for Self-Represented Litigants)
Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center
Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
National Coalition of Free Men, Los Angeles Chapter
National Labor Relations Board, Region 21
National Labor Relations Board, Region 31
National Senior Citizens Law Center
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County
Orange County Superior Court
Peace Over Violence (formerly Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women)
Protection and Advocacy, Inc.
Public Advocates, Inc. 
Public Counsel Law Center
Public Employment Relations Board
Public Law Center
Riverside Public Defender
Rothner, Segall & Greenstone
San Diego Coastkeeper
Santa Monica City Attorney's Office
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
South Asian Network
U.S Air Force JAG
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Legal Unit
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
United States Secret Service
Ventura County Public Defender
Washoe County Public Defender's Office
Western Center on Law & Poverty
Women Against Gun Violence
Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
Working Peoples Law Center

Entities Participating in Formal Interviews:
 

ACLU Drug Law Reform Project
Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Bet Tzedek Legal Services
Brayton Purcell
Break the Cycle
California Franchise Tax Board
California Rural Legal Assistance Inc.
California Women's Law Center
Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC)
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment (CRPE)
Children's Law Center of Los Angeles
Coalition To Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST)
Community Water Center
Disability Rights Legal Center
East Bay Community Law Center
Eviction Defense Network
Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc.
Glendale YWCA - Domestic Violence Project
Greenlining Institute
Hadsell & Stormer, Inc.
Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law
HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA)
Holguin & Garfield
Housing Rights Center - Litigation Department
Lambda Legal, Western Regional Office
Lawyers For Clean Water, Inc.
Learning Rights Law Center
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Legal Services of Northern California
Los Angeles Center for Law & Justice
Los Angeles County Office of Independent Review
Los Angeles County Superior Court - Resource Center for Self-Represented Litigants
MALDEF - Legal Department
Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc.
National Health Law Program
National Senior Citizens Law Center
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County
Peace Over Violence (formerly Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women)
Protection & Advocacy, Inc. - Legal Unit
Public Advocates, Inc.
Public Counsel Law Center
Riverside Public Defender
San Diego Coastkeeper - Environmental Law & Policy Clinic
San Diego County Public Defender
South Asian Network
State Bar of California (Los Angeles) - Office of the Chief Trial Counsel
The Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center
U.S. Attorney's Office - Eastern District of California
U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Department of Justice - Environment & Natural Resources Division (ENRD)
U.S. Department of Justice - Environmental Enforcement Section
U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review [U.S. Immigration Court]
U.S. Department of Justice - Office of the U.S. Trustee
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Alternate Dispute Resolution Division
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission -  Legal Unit
U.S. Public Interest Research Group (formerly National Association of State PIRGs)

DIRECTIONS TO UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW AND PARKING INFORMATION

Parking on the UCLA campus is $8.  For parking please go to the parking kiosk at the Westholme and Hilgard Avenue entrance to the UCLA campus and ask to park in Lot 2, the parking lot to the south of the parking kiosk.  The School of Law is due north of Lot 2 and the parking kiosk.

Note:  Participating organizations, agencies and firms will receive parking in Lot 2 at no charge.

UCLA School of Law
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90095

For additional map and directions to UCLA and the School of Law, see:  http://www.ucla.edu/map

CONTACT INFORMATION

For additional information on the 22nd Annual Southern California Public Interest Career Day contact:

Catherine Mayorkas
Director, Public Interest Programs
UCLA School of Law
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90095
(310) 206-9155
mayorkas@law.ucla.edu