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Careers in Environmental Law – Tues., March 29th at 5pm in OCS

Posted by Laura Hosid at 11:25 AM - Categories: Practice Areas | OCS / OPICS Programs | All class years

The Office of Career Services and the Georgetown Climate Center invite you to attend an informative panel on careers in environmental law.  The panel will be held on Tuesday, March 29th at 5:00pm in OCS (McDonough 328). Light refreshments will be served.  Please RSVP to ocsrsvp@law.georgetown.edu. 

Panelists include:         

• Tom Gibson, American Iron and Steel Institute
• Bill Thomas, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
• Kathy Barton, The United States Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division 
• Howard Crystal, Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal
• Professor Vicki Arroyo, Georgetown Climate Center (Moderator)

Rising 2Ls: Summer 2012 Public Sector Opportunities Info Session - Next Week!

Posted by Lauren Dubin at 11:02 AM - Categories: Public Interest | Government | OCS / OPICS Programs | 1L/1E/2E

Rising 2Ls: What's Ahead Regarding Public Interest/Government Opportunities

Wednesday, March 30
3:30 to 4:30 PM, Room 201

Topics include:

Fall 2011 Government Interview Program (GIP)
Government Internship Programs (including the DOJ Summer Law Intern Program (SLIP))
Non-profit opportunities and planning ahead for post-grad Fellowships
Public Defender and Prosecutor Opportunities

This program will be recorded and made available on the OPICS website.

Questions? Contact OPICS at opics@law.georgetown.edu.

Reminder - GEMALaw Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium - Fri., March 25th

GEMALaw presents the Fourth Annual GEMALaw Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium on Friday, March 25th from 12pm-5:15pm in McDonough 200, with a reception following the symposium.  The agenda is as follows:

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Posted by Laura Hosid at 2:11 PM - Categories: Practice Areas | Community Events | Networking

This Week! Pathways to Government Panel: Administrative and Regulatory Law Panel

Posted by Lauren Dubin at 4:07 PM - Categories: Government | OCS / OPICS Programs | All class years

Pathways to Government: Administrative & Regulatory Law Panel

Are you interested in working for the government? Would you like to learn more about administrative and regulatory work? Do you want to know how alums have successfully secured positions with the federal government?

If so, join us for this terrific panel with three Georgetown Law Center alums!  

Wednesday, March 23, 3:30 pm, McDonough 201

Contact OPICS with questions at opics@law.georgetown.edu, or stop by McDonough 212

Rising 3Ls: Entry-Level Public Sector Opportunities Info Session - Next Week!

Posted by Lauren Dubin at 4:01 PM - Categories: Public Interest | Government | OCS / OPICS Programs | 3L/4E

OPICS invites rising 3Ls to join us next week for:

AN OVERVIEW OF ENTRY-LEVEL PUBLIC SECTOR OPPORTUNITIES

Monday, March 28, 3:30 to 4:30 PM, McDonough 202

Topics include:

·        Post-graduate Public Interest Fellowship Programs (project, staff attorney, clinical, Georgetown sponsored, etc.)

·        Fall 2011 Government Interview Program (GIP)

·        Government Honors Programs (including the DOJ Attorney General's Honors Program)

·        Presidential Management Fellows Program (PMF)

·        Public Defender and Prosecutor Opportunities

 This program will be recorded and made available on the OPICS website.

Questions?  Contact OPICS at opics@law.georgetown.edu

Stabile Fellowship at the Environmental Working Group for Georgetown Graduates

Georgetown Law and the Environmental Working Group (EWG) are now accepting applications for the

STABILE FELLOWSHIP IN THE REGULATION OF PERSONAL-CARE AND RELATED CONSUMER PRODUCTS.  

The annual fellowship will offer a recent Georgetown Law graduate the opportunity to work for one year with EWG on cutting-edge issues in regulation of personal-care products, cosmetics, over-the-counter drugs, related consumer products, and  toxic chemicals, as well as a wide array of in-house legal issues such as nonprofit-tax and employment law.  The fellowship is open to Georgetown students graduating in 2011 and alumni/ae who graduated in 2009 or 2010.

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Posted by Lauren Dubin at 1:52 PM - Categories: Public Interest | Post-Graduate Fellowships | 3L/4E | Hot Jobs

Fault Lines in International Commercial Arbitration - Wed., March 23rd

Posted by Laura Hosid at 1:10 PM - Categories: Practice Areas | Off-campus programs | All class years

The Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and the American Society of International Law (ASIL) will present a special 1/2 day conference -- Fault Lines in International Commercial Arbitration -– on March 23 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., immediately preceding the ASIL Annual Meeting.   For a full program and registration information, visit www.cailaw.org/ita/ASIL_11.html.  Students are welcome to attend the conference for FREE (although at that price there will be no lunch, and no materials unless there are leftovers).  Students must, however, complete the same registration form as others, and identify themselves as students to the registrar.