Dear NASALSA leader;
As Special Counsel for Diversity Outreach and Recruitment at the U.S. Department of Justice, I would like to share with you some information about Justice’s Summer Law Internship Program (SLIP) and the Attorney General’s Honors Program (HP). A primary purpose of this email is to make you and your student members aware of these programs and the applicable deadlines, which are early.
The
Attorney General’s Honors Program (HP)
is
Justice’s recruitment program for entry-level attorneys, and is the only way
Justice hires graduating law students.
Judicial law clerks, full-time graduate law program (LLM) students, and law school graduates in qualifying full-time legal fellowships are also eligible. The first opportunity
for law students
to apply for HP
is the summer
before their third year of law school.
This year, the on-line centralized electronic application opens July 25, 2011, and closes September 6, 2011. Participating Justice offices and
components will be listed at:
www.justice.gov/oarm/arm/hp/hpparticipatingcomp.htm.
The
Summer Law Intern Program (SLIP)
is
Justice’s competitive recruitment program for
compensatedsummer internships.
Law students who have completed at least one full semester of law school by theapplication deadline are eligible to apply; however,
the majority of SLIPs are second-year law students who work at Justice the summer between their second and third years of law school. But the SLIP is also open to recent
graduates between graduation and the start of a judicial clerkship or full-time qualifying
legal fellowship.
This year, the on-line centralized electronic application opens July 25, 2011, and closes September 6, 2011.
Thus,
current 1Ls (i.e., rising 2Ls)
who are interested in a paid internship for Summer 2012
should apply by September 6, 2011.
Participating Justice offices andcomponents will be listed at:
www.justice.gov/oarm/arm/sp/spcomponents.htm
Because you are a leader at both your law school and of NASALSA, I ask that you please share this information with your classmates and the general NASALSA membership. I hope that you will encourage them to consider taking advantage of these great opportunities, and also point out to themthat both our SLIP and HP programs have early application deadlines.
More information about Justice’s hiring programs, including volunteer internship opportunities across the county, may be found at the Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management (OARM) website at:
http://www.justice.gov/oarm/
Please feel free to contact me should you have any additional questions regarding Justice’s hiring programs or about the Department in general.
Warm regards,
Richard Parker
Richard L. Parker
Special Counsel on
Diversity Recruitment and Outreach
United States Department of Justice
450 Fifth Street, NW, Suite 10200
Washington, DC 20530