Welcome to PSLawNet's New Blog!
Welcome to the PSLawNet Blog, launched on January 4, 2010. Our goal is to serve as an information clearinghouse for law students and lawyers on public service career paths. To that end, our content will include:
- legal news affecting the public interest job market (including government);
- updates on resources for job-seekers of all experience levels;
- information on developing news stories and policy debates affecting the public interest community more generally; and
- guest columns from public interest practitioners and career services professionals, offering career advice and insights on legal issues.
PSLawNet is the go-to career website for today’s and tomorrow’s lawyers who are committed to public service. Our job database – which includes thousands of individual opportunity postings and employer profiles – has long been at the core of our offerings. In addition, we maintain a voluminous library of substantive, career-building resources, such as our annually-updated federal employment guide, background materials for postgraduate fellowship seekers, and our summer funding resource page for law students.
We also recognize how important it is for the continuing professional development of law students and experienced attorneys that they stay current on news and policy developments that affect the arenas they practice in. For several months we have produced the weekly PSLawNet Public Interest News Bulletin, which is now archived on PSLawNet.
The PSLawNet blog is the next, logical step in our effort to inform and educate public interest advocates of all experience levels by providing an ongoing environmental scan of the legal public service arena and offering daily updates on news and policy developments. We will offer content to several audiences, and individual posts will inevitably be more meaningful to some than others. But the common thread in our blog activities will be the sharing of as much information affecting the public interest legal community as possible.
We hope the blog will serve as a useful tool for you. Please feel free to contact us with tips and suggestions at pslawnet@nalp.org.
– Steve Grumm, Director of Public Service Initiatives, NALP