Job Opportunities

The University of Maryland is seeking to hire a Program Director for the  Community Justice Clinic.

The Lewis and Clark Legal Clinic wishes to hire a full-time Clinical Professor.

Georgetown University Seeks an Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs.

At the University of Maryland Community Justice Clinic

This new clinical course will focus on the roles of lawyers in reducing violence in our society, including as prosecutors, advisors, mediators, planners,  teachers/mentors, and house counsel. It will operate in one or two Baltimore City neighborhoods. During the year, students will work sequentially and/or contemporaneously in several components of the clinic:
1) Community prosecution: In conjunction with the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office, students and faculty will help to design, operate, evaluate, and replicate a community prosecution project in the Baltimore City District Court in which students help to: prosecute "quality-of-life"crimes (trespassing, vandalism, drug activity, drunk and disorderly conduct, loitering, open containers, prostitution, shoplifting and disturbing the peace), support a diversion/community service rogram (in which offenders perform community service in lieu of incarceration), represent the community organization that supervises and provides services to the offenders, and work with police, prosecutors, defenders and community groups to make this project effective.
2) Community justice council: Students and faculty will help to create,
staff, and evaluate this entity, which will devise and implement strategies to supervise and rehabilitate offenders who come from the neighborhoods served by the council, including "career" offenders. The council will be composed of law enforcement, prosecution, defense, court, service providers, community, educational, and church representatives.
3) School conflict resolution projects: In cooperation with a local high
school, students and faculty will help to: staff a workgroup that will
develop conflict-resolution projects for the high school, to implement and evaluate those projects, and to replicate successful projects. The workgroup will be composed of school administrators, teachers, students, parents, and community leaders.
4) Youth advocacy/law/leadership program: In cooperation with the local high school and one or more local community organization(s), the law students and faculty will work with high school students and faculty to develop, test, evaluate, and replicate a law-related, high school educational program and materials for that program. This project will engage both sets of students in learning-by-doing, with the focus of the work on neighborhood problems that have legal components.
5) Business-development: In conjunction with local community organizations and business leaders, the faculty and students will help to develop a local not-for-profit or for-profit business that will provide and fund some of the services that will be required to create and maintain the above projects.

The job is posted at the University of Maryland website.  Applications must be submitted on line and are due on July 22, 2005.

At Lewis and Clark Law School

Clinical Professor of Law, Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon

Excellent lawyering skills required–five years’ minimum experience. Excellent oral and written communications skills. Teaching, training less experienced lawyers, and lawyer mentoring a plus. Oregon State Bar membership required, or willingness to become Bar member within one year.

The Legal Clinic has provided practical skills training to 2nd and 3rd year law students since 1972. Five clinical faculty provide theoretical and practical legal education in a model using cases which are relatively fast moving and short in duration. Current case types include: chapter 7 bankruptcy, eviction defenses, and domestic violence and related cases. While the vacant position was dedicated to unemployment compensation administrative hearings and appeals, other case types which maximize our students’ educational opportunities within the time constraints of an academic semester will be considered.

Duties include supervising student case work, mentoring one-on-one, and classroom teaching, as well as preparation of materials covering substantive law and procedures. The Clinic has a strong emphasis on teaching ethics and professionalism.

Members of underrepresented groups encouraged to apply.

Salary anticipated $55,000-$70,000 DOE, plus possible summer teaching compensation. Excellent benefits.

Cover letters and resumes accepted until position filled. Send resumes to Lewis and Clark Legal Clinic, 310 SW 4th Avenue, Suite 1018, Portland, Oregon 97204. Or email to carolin@lclark.edu

At Georgetown

Georgetown University is currently accepting applications for the
position of Assistant Dean, J.D. Program (Clinical).  The Assistant Dean
is responsible for the administrative supervision of the J.D. clinical
program and the academic administration of the Law Center’s graduate clinical teaching fellowship program.  Duties include: developing and implementing administrative procedures and academic policies governing J.D. students enrolled in the clinics and for the graduate teaching fellowship program;  coordinating the clinic enrollment process; coordinating a year-long course on clinical pedagogy for teaching fellows; providing academic counseling to J.D. students in all areas of the curriculum; monitoring the multiple budgets of the entire clinical program; developing and editing publications describing the clinical and fellowship programs; overseeing and developing content for the clinics’ web pages; coordinating the review, evaluation and possible revision of the J.D. simulation curriculum.

Requirements: J.D. degree and some post-J.D. experience; superior writing and organizational skills. Management experience in an academic or legal setting and experience in clinical pedagogy and professional mentoring or student counseling are strongly preferred. This is an administrative, not a teaching, position.

Interested candidates should send cover letter and resume to Deborah
Epstein, Associate Dean for Clinical Education, Georgetown University
Law Center, 111 F Street, N.W., Washington, DC  20001.  Electronic
applications will not be considered.