Kane Center Clinics Hiring for Summer 2012

This summer the clinical law program plans to hire a number of law students to work in their various clinics in the Kane Center.  The Mandel Legal Aid Clinic projects, the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship, The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, and the Exoneration Project Clinic seek energetic, dedicated and motivated students for these positions.  Students selected for the summer program will be assigned to one clinic for the summer and will work on a variety of cases, transactions or other client matters.

The summer program for the Clinics begins in June, on the first Monday after the end of the school year.  The summer program continues through the start of on-campus interviews.  Students are expected to work in the program for a total of nine (9) weeks during this time period and will be compensated at a rate to be determined by each program (approximately the same as the compensation for research assistants and students with fellowship funding to work with nonprofit organizations).

Interested students should submit their resume and a short cover letter to the receptionist’s desk in the Kane Center.  In the cover letter, students should indicate their first two preferences for the clinics they are interested in working with during the summer.  These first two preferences may be used for purposes of scheduling interviews.  Students are encouraged to review the materials on each clinic’s website for information about the seven Mandel Legal Aid Clinic projects, the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship, The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, and the Exoneration Project Clinic.  Resumes and cover letters will be accepted January 16 through the close of business (5:00 pm) on January 27, 2012.

Interviews will be conducted between February 6 and February 18, and the first round of offers will be made before the end of the Winter Quarter.

If you have any questions about the summer hiring process, please feel free to contact Jeff Leslie, Room K-206, jleslie@uchicago.edu.