Happy New Year!  The PSLawNet Jobs Report is back after the holidays and ready to share updates on new job opportunities and career advice.

Need a job or internship? During the  last week PSLawNet has posted:   29 new attorney positions,   20 new internships, and  9 new law related opportunities.  Additionally, there are currently 1,015 active opportunities in our job database.  To search the database visit PSLawNet. 

Featured New Positions:

The American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) is seeking an experienced professional for the role of Legal Advisor in ABA ROLI’s response to a USAID Request for Applications. The Legal Advisor will be responsible for advising Liberian justice sector institutions and officials, professional judicial and attorney associations, civil society partner organizations, legislators, government officials, and international domestic NGOs on the Liberian criminal justice system, pre-trail practices and procedures and Federal Rules of Civil and Criminal Procedure.  Deadline to Apply:  January 18, 2011.  Visit PSLawNet for full details.

The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NIRP) is seeking summer interns for their Tacoma office.  The NIRP provides legal services to immigrant detainees at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC), which holds up to 1500 detainees, 90% of whom are unrepresented.  Both the Tacoma office and the NWDC are a 35-minute commute from downtown Seattle.  Summer interns will directly represent detainees under the supervision of the attorneys in removal proceedings.   This includes appearing in immigration court hearings, preparing clients for court, preparing witnesses, drafting a number of legal briefs and making oral arguments in court.  In addition to their direct caseload, intern responsibilities include:  conducting “Know Your Rights” presentations at the NWDC to groups of detainees; conducting intakes with individual detainees; conducting workshops to assist detainees with applying for relief; identifying legal issues and potential forms of relief for detainees; drafting pro se briefs for detainees; and performing a variety of administrative tasks.  Deadline to Apply:  February 28, 2011.  Check PSLawNet for additional details and application instructions.

Featured Public Service Career Resource:

Looking for attorney positions with the federal government? As we shared last Friday in the Public Interest News Bulletin, a federal jobs expert shared some job-seeking wisdom in the Washington Post:

In each budget justification submitted to Congress, you get to see what an agency says it needs, as well any additional hiring requests to carry out its work … For the Justice Department to strengthen national security and counter the threat of terrorism the 2011 budget requests $300.6 million. The request includes 440 additional positions, including 126 agents and 15 attorneys. To enforce immigration laws the department is requesting an $11 million program increase, including 125 positions – 31 of them attorneys.  You can read an agency’s budget proposal on its Web site.

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