The Judicial Clerkship Section is for NALP members who have an interest in or responsibility for preparing law students for judicial clerkships or for managing the departure and return from employer organizations of associates who pursue judicial clerkships. This Section serves as a clearinghouse for judicial clerkship information important to the NALP membership.
2012-2013 Section Chair: Melissa Lennon, Temple University Beasley School of Law. melissa.lennon@temple.edu
Work Groups:
OSCAR/FLCIS
Support and work in collaboration with the Administrative Office of the Courts on the continued implementation and use of OSCAR and FLCIS. Vice Chair: Susan Staab, University of Chicago Law School
State Court Working Group
The Work Group will continue to prepare a “best practices” guide for career counselors as a complimentary resource to the Vermont Law School Guide to State Court Clerkships. The guide will include general counseling advice, a discussion of how to get faculty and alumni to encourage state court opportunities, and methods for successfully marketing schools and students to judges. This year the group will solicit additional volunteers and cover additional jurisdictions. Vice Chair: Michel Ende, Hostra University School of Law
NALPconnect Workgroup
Introduce social media to section. Develop and update materials to be posted on the home page. Vice Chair: TBD
2011-2012 Section Chair: Melissa Lennon, Temple University Beasley School of Law, melissa.lennon@temple.edu
OSCAR/FLCIS
Support and work in collaboration with the Administrative Office of the Courts on the continued implementation and use of OSCAR and FLCIS. Vice Chair: Marilyn Drees, Yale Law School.
State Court Work Group
The Work Group will continue to prepare a “best practices” guide for career counselors as a complimentary resource to the Vermont Law School Guide to State Court Clerkships. The guide will include general counseling advice, a discussion of how to get faculty and alumni to encourage state court opportunities, and methods for successfully marketing schools and students to judges. This year the group will solicit additional volunteers and cover additional jurisdictions. Vice Chair: Lorri Olan, Washington & Lee University
School of Law.
Experienced Attorney Hiring Work Group
The group will continue to examine the practice by judges of hiring experienced attorneys, including hiring students still in school for “future” clerkship openings after the students have committed to work for one or two years, as well as hiring currently practicing attorneys for immediate or future clerkship openings. The group will also continue to collaborate with the Recruiting Section to facilitate outreach to employers regarding judicial clerkship recruiting from the law firm associate ranks. The results of these discussions will be shared with the membership either as Bulletin article(s) or future conference programs. Vice Chair: TBD
Track Programming
Identify and compile resources that are designed to help members new to the profession. Resources should include “best of” sessions from the 2010/2011 NALP educational programming (Annual Conference, Diversity Summit, the Lawyer Professional Development Program, Newer Professional Forum, Professional Development Institute, and PSLawNet Mini Conference), as well as NALP and NALP Foundation webinars. Vice Chair: TBD
2010-2011 Section Chair: Sheila Driscoll, The George Washington University Law School, sdriscoll@law.gwu.edu
OSCAR/FLCIS
Support and work in collaboration with the Administrative Office of the Courts on the continued implementation and use of OSCAR and FLCIS. Vice-Chair: Marilyn Drees, Yale Law School.
State Court Working Group
The work group will prepare a “best practices” guide for career counselors as a complimentary resource to the Vermont Law School Guide to State Court Clerkships. The guide will include general counseling advice, a discussion of how to get faculty and alumni to encourage state court opportunities, and methods for successfully marketing schools and students to judges. This year the group will work on developing and executing an outreach plan to determine membership interest in this best practices guide and creating a sample form(s) from a targeted jurisdiction. Vice-Chairs: Melissa Lennon, Temple University Beasley School of Law and Lorri Olan, Washington & Lee University School of Law
Experienced Attorney Hiring Work Group
This work group will examine the new practice of judges hiring “deferred” associates as unpaid interns after graduation, as well as the more established practice of judges hiring experienced attorneys as their law clerks. The group will identify the extent of post-graduation unpaid intern hiring and how the experience is viewed by the interns and future legal employers. The group will also continue to examine the practice by judges of hiring experienced attorneys, including hiring students still in school for “future” clerkship openings after the students have committed to work for one or two years, as well as hiring currently practicing attorneys for immediate or future clerkship openings. The group will bring together NALP members from the school side as well as from the employer side to discuss the impact of such experienced attorney hiring on clerkship counseling, recruitment and retention. The results of these discussions will be shared with the membership either as Bulletin article(s) or for future conference programs. Vice Chairs: TBD
Administrative Law Judge Work Group This work group will research
and report on administrative law judge hiring.
Vice Chair: Christine Fritton, University of
Pennsylvania
2009-2010 Section Chair: Sheila Driscoll, The George Washington University Law School, sdriscoll@law.gwu.edu
OSCAR/FLCIS
Support and work in collaboration with the Administrative Office of the Courts on the continued implementation and use of OSCAR and FLCIS. Vice-Chair: Marilyn Drees, Yale Law School.
State Court Working Group
The work group will prepare a "best practices" guide for career counselors as a complimentary resource to the Vermont Law School Guide to State Court Clerkships. The guide will include general counseling advice, a discussion of how to get faculty and alumni to encourage state court opportunities, and methods for successfully marketing schools and students to judges. This year the group will work on developing and executing an outreach plan to determine membership interest in this best practices guide and creating a sample form(s) from a targeted jurisdiction. Vice-Chairs: Michele Hoff, University of Connecticut School of Law & Melissa Lennon, Temple University Beasley School of Law
"Lateral Judicial Clerk" Trend
Monitor the significance of the trend in hiring judicial clerks who have worked for one to two years following graduation before clerking and the impact on legal employers. Vice-Chairs: Carla DeVelder, Creighton University School of Law & Jessica Heywood, Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law
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