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GENERAL LEGAL INFORMATION & EMPLOYMENT SITES

Sites for online job-hunting in the legal profession include the following list below.

  • NALP Directory of Legal Employers http://www.nalpdirectory.com Lexis Career Searching (lexis webcourse) Lexis has created a consolidated site for searching for firms, UW alumni, and other fantastic information. Go to the link below for the webcourse. You have to log on and select "Wyoming career Resources" as a course from the course catalog and enroll.
  • American Bar Association (http://www.abanet.org)
  • ABA Career Counsel (http://www.abanet.org/careercounsel) This site includes centralized access to ABA career information and tips on finding jobs and enhancing careers.
  • American Lawyer Media Attorney (http://www.americanlawyermedia.com) American Lawyer Media owns and publishes 24 national and regional legal magazines and newspapers. This site provides links to these publications.
  • American Health Lawyers Association (http://www.healthlawyers.org) This site includes information and updates for those interested in health law. The site also includes a searchable national job bank of health law positions.
  • BenefitsLink (http://www.benefitslink.com) This site contains information and tools for employee benefits professionals and lists employee benefits jobs.
  • Boulder County Bar Association Newsletter (http://www.boulder-bar.org/newsletter/index.html)  Click on the most current issue and go to the last page, "Classified Ads," to find recent job postings for attorneys in Boulder, Colorado.
  • Colorado Bar Association (http://www.cobar.org) Click on the "Employment" link to find recent job postings for recent graduates and attorneys.
  • Computer Legal Resources Site (http://www.complaw.com) Computer Law Resource is a source of information concerning intellectual property law, Internet & computer law, and general legal issues. Includes job postings.
  • Denver Bar Association (http://www.denbar.org)  Click on "DILP Job Announcements" to find recent job postings for recent graduates and attorneys.
  • Emplawyernet (http://www.emplawyernet.com) Offers a database of jobs for lawyers and law students. When you join, (free of charge) customized job information is automatically delivered to you via private e-mail and hundreds of employers will have access to your profile. You'll also get EmplawyerNet's Career Library, networking tools, and job hunting links.
  • Equal Justice Works (www.equaljusticeworks.org). This is the homepage for Equal Justice Works (formerly NAPIL). This site provides a great deal of information on public interest careers, upcoming events (including Equal Justice Work's annual job fair in October), jobs and opportunities and Equal Justice Work's fellowship program.
  • FindLaw Career Center (http://www.infirmation.com) This site compiles information and resources for the legal industry, search for jobs, specific employers, salary statistics and more.
  • Heiros Gamos (http://www.hg.org/employment.html) This site is a complete Law Research Center. It includes career related information, including job-searching strategies, along with updates in the legal profession. The site has links to bar associations, law firms, corporations and many other sites of interest.
  • Homecourt Advantage (http://www.homecourt.org) Website highlighting Philadelphia legal community and practice opportunities.
  • Judicial Clerkship Information through Federal Law Clerk Information System (https:/lawclerks.ao.uscourts.gov) This site allows prospective applicants to search a national database of federal clerkship vacancies.
  • Juris (http://www.Firm-Finder.com) This is the website of Juris Resources which is an Attorney Recruiting and Consulting firm. The site allows you to post your resume, lists positions geographically and provides information on interviewing and more.
  • JURIST (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu) Pitt School of Law Professor Bernard Hibbitts' renowned web site.
  • LawInfo Employment Center (http://jobs.lawinfo.com) This site allows you to post your resume and review legal job listings.
  • LAWMALL (http://www.lawmall.com/lm_bbs.html) This is a bulletin board for Legal Industry networking.
  • Lawyers.com (http://www.lawyers.com) Visitors can search a database of lawyers and law firms and review a wealth of information to help them better understand the law, the legal process and their rights. They can research legal issues, find details on lawyers, or compare the credentials of a list of attorneys.
  • Law Periscope (http://www.lawperiscope.com) LawPeriscope profiles the 300 largest U.S. law firms.
  • http://legalemploy.com The Legal Employment Search Site.
  • Lexis-Nexis Career Center (http:/lexisnexis.com/careers/default.aspx) Lexis-Nexis site for job searching. Includes Martindale-Hubbell, NALP, Lexis-Nexis Career Library and Job Searching strategies and resources. Lexis-Nexis Jobs Page (http://www.lexis-nexis.com/employment) Lists employment opportunities with LEXIS-NEXIS.
  • Martindale Hubbell (http://www.martindale.com) Allows you to find a lawyer by name and to search by location/area of practice, by firm, or for lawyers in corporations, agencies of the US government, or law school faculty. The network includes over a million lawyers and law firms in 160 countries.
  • Martindale Hubbell Legal Careers (http://careers.martindale.com) Includes job hunting resources for lawyers and legal professionals.
  • National Association for Law Placement (http://www.nalp.org) The organization dedicated to legal hiring, recruitment and statistical collection issues. A good resource on Career Services generally.
  • National Center for State Courts (http://www.ncsconline.org) This site provides links to State Court websites, as well as limited employment information and links to federal and international courts.
  • Palidan Internet Resources for Attorneys (http://www.palidan.com) This site contains over 500 links to free legal employment sites. Includes a directory of legal recruiters, a directory of legal newspapers and bar associations that list job openings, a directory of government positions, and more. Allows you to search by state.
  • SummerClerk.com (http://www.summerclerk.com)
  • Wall Street Reporter - Inside Law (http://www.systechusa.com) The Inside Law section of this site includes information on substantive areas of the law along with in-depth discussions about practicing at some of the top law firms in the country.
  • West Group's Career (http:/lawschool.westlaw.com) This is the site for West Group's Career information. Includes job searching, career advice and information on employers. West Group's Home Page (http://www.westgroup.com/) This is West Group's homepage. It includes a link to jobs available nationwide at West Group.
  • Vault (http://www.vault.com) This site has a great deal of information about jobs in all industries and includes a special section on the Legal Industry. You can search for specific information about employers, view Law School message boards that give you inside information about employers, search for jobs and much more. You can also subscribe free of charge to get weekly email updates on the legal industry and job searching.

FEDERAL

FedWorld www.fedworld.gov/jobs/jobsearch.html

US Department of Justice www.usdoj.gov

US Office of Personnel Management www.usajobs.opm.gov

US Department of State www.state.gov
This site contains information about becoming a Foreign Service Officer.

US Department of Justice http://www.usdoj.gov/oarm/oppls.htm
Volunteer Summer Legal Intern Positions with the Dept of Justice. Excellent opportunities for 1st year students.

USAJOBS www.usajobs.gov

This is the official job site of the United States Federal Government.

Studentjobs.gov http://www.studentjobs.gov

STATE

State Governments on the Web http://janus.state.me.us/states.htm
Provides links to many nationwide state government sites.

PRACTICE AREA RESOURCES

Nationwide List of State & Federal Prosecutor Web sites
www.prosecutor.info

Intellectual Property Law Server
http://intelproplaw.com
General information, comprehensive links, news, articles and jobs in patent, trademark and copyright law.

Defense Research Institute
www.dri.org
National organization of defense trial lawyers and corporate counsel.

American Trial Lawyers Association
www.atla.org

American Health Lawyers Association
www.healthlawyers.org

American Corporate Counsel Association

www.acca.com

American Immigration Lawyers Association

www.aila.org

National Center for Adoption Law & Policy

http://www.law.capital.edu/adoption
This website offers a law student the opportunity of an adoption related job experience in several different states.

ACADEMIC

Association of American Law Schools (AALS)

www.aals.org
Law School faculty positions.

National Association of College & University Attorneys

www.nacua.org

Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/jobs
Job listings for faculty, administrative and executive positions at undergraduate and graduate educational institutions (including law schools).

SPECIAL INTEREST

Disabled Lawyering Alliance

www.disabledlawyering.org

Minority Corporate Counsel Association

http://mcca.com

LAWYER & LAW FIRM DIRECTORIES

Martindale Hubbell Directory

www.martindale.com

LEXIS

www.lawyers.com

West Legal Directory (FindLaw)

www.directory.findlaw.com

NALP Directory of Legal Employers

www.nalpdirectory.com

INTERNATIONAL LAW RESOURCES

International Law Students Association (ILSA)

www.ilsa.org

American Society of International Law

www.asil.org

International Bar Association

www.ibanet.org

Overseas Jobs.com

www.internationaljobs.com

LEGAL ASSOCIATIONS & BAR INFORMATION

NALP Online

www.nalp.org
This website provides extensive career planning information for law students and includes information about hiring trends in the legal employment market. also lists additional resources that may be helpful to career searches.

American Bar Association

www.abanet.org

State Bar Examination Information (all states)

www.barexam.org

State Bar Examination Information - Wyoming

http://www.wyomingbar.org (Click on "Admissions")

State Bar Examination Information - Colorado

http://www.coloradosupremecourt.com/BLE/ble_home.htm

or http://www.coloradosupremecourt.com (and link to "Bar Law Examiners")

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