The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida (ACLU), a statewide affiliate of the National ACLU, is seeking a Staff Attorney specializing in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and HIV/AIDS related issues.

The staff attorney may be involved in the broad range of ACLU and civil liberties issues. However, the staff attorney will be expected to work primarily on civil rights issues on behalf of LGBT individuals and families.

The attorney will likely be located in the affiliate’s main office in Miami, although placement in one of the ACLU FL’s Regional Offices (Tampa, Pensacola, or Jacksonville) may be considered.

Interested in working with ACLU? Check out the whole listing and find out how to apply at PSLawNet!

by Kristen Pavón

In addition to our database of more than 13,000 public service employer profiles (yes, you read that right — 13,000!) and almost 1,000 legal opportunities, the PSLawNet website has some great resources about anything from interviewing tips for public interest jobs, guides on landing jobs with international organizations to how to get and save money while working in the public interest field.

Here are a few other useful links you can find on our website:

• Post-grad fellowships Q&A
• Info about working on Capitol Hill 
• Almost anything you ever wanted to know about becoming a Public Defender

If there’s something public service career-related you’re interested in finding out about — leave us a comment below and we’ll see if we can help you out!

We’re always looking to update our resources and add new information that you want to learn about — so, let us know.

Building Excellent Schools is looking for the most entrepreneurial and driven leaders to make a scholastic difference. Building Excellent Schools is a national organization with more than a decade of experience training leaders to found independently managed urban charter schools.  BES Fellows have founded more than 40 schools across the country.

Fellows complete a practice-based training built around the understanding of the best school practices in the highest performing urban charter schools.  Additional training consists of a residency in a high-performing urban charter school, school visits with the Fellowship cohort of like-minded leaders, and structured work in your home territory. The goal of the year-long fellowship is  to conclude with an approved charter application, inclusive of the best-practices in urban school design, and an exceptional founding board.

For the 2012-2013 Fellowship, BES is accepting applications from individuals who are driven to start charter schools in Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, and Tennessee. However, they will also consider other territories.

For more information about Building Excellent Schools, the fellowship or the application process, see the listing on PSLawNet!

Harvard Law’s Office of Public Interest Advising has just released the Guide on International Development: Public Service Careers and Opportunities.  The Guide includes an overview of the field, specific listings of international development organizations along with internship and fellowship opportunities, and testimonials from students who have had experience working in international development settings.

Here’s an opportunity to represent the university that boasts 76 Nobel Prize winners and 35 National Medal of Science recipients! Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) will advise and represent MIT on legal issues related to research, faculty, students, health and safety, and privacy issues. 

MIT’s counsel will also streamline the school’s contracting processes by creating systems, training, and procedures that empower varied units to responsibly draft, negotiate, and enter into a variety of contracts involving copyright, software, licensing, confidentiality, and data protection; and support units in their contracting activities and handle unusual, complex contracts; provide legal, tactical, and strategic advice on policies, best practices, and education.

To learn more about the position and apply, check out the listing at PSLawNet

The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) is seeking a legislative associate with two or more years of experience to join its Government Relations team in Washington, D.C.

SELC uses law and policy expertise to protect the South’s natural resources—its land, air, water, coast and wetlands—and to preserve our rural countryside and community character.

SELC’s government relations team works in Congress and with federal agencies to advance policy objectives that enhance environmental protection and quality of life in the Southeast.

Duties include monitoring legislative hearings, working with SELC policy and legal staff to develop support materials and representing SELC at coalition meeting.

If you’re interested in joining SELC in its efforts to protect our environment, check out the full listing on PSLawNet.

Schwerin Campbell Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt LLP, the Pacific Northwest’s largest union-side labor and employment law firm, is looking for an attorney to join their dynamic litigation practice that includes wage & hour and class action work.

Since the 1920s, Schwerin Campbell Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt has been committed to serving working people. Their clients range from hotel, hospital, and homecare workers, to educators, machinists, teamsters, longshore and building trades.

If you’re passionate about representing working people and labor organizations, check out the listing on PSLawNet to find out how to apply!

To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15), I’ve got a great opportunity for you — the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is looking for a Lead General Attorney for the Office of Regional Counsel (ORC) , Caribbean Team, in . . . wait for it, wait for it . . . San Juan, Puerto Rico! Not only will you be working to promote a cleaner, healthier environment, you’ll be doing so in a gorgeous, tropical setting.

The attorneys on ORC’s Caribbean Team represent the EPA in administrative and civil enforcement litigation arising under a number of federal environmental laws.

Interesado? Check out the listing on PSLawNet.

The Los Angeles-based Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, is looking for a Litigation Director to help provide vision for as well as to manage and expand APALC’s impact litigation work.

APALC’s mission to advocate for civil rights, provide legal services and education, and build coalitions to positively influence and impact Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and to create a more equitable and harmonious society. Annually, APALC serves more than 15,000 clients.

The Litigation Director will be responsible for the overall development of strategic litigation, including identifying broad patterns of abuse or other systemic rights violations and developing strategies to address these patterns of mistreatment as well as fundraising and relationship building.

Additionally, the Litigation Director will lead a team of civil rights professionals, with a focus on serving indigent clients in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in a variety of substantive legal areas such as worker’s rights, education, race and national origin discrimination and consumer law.

Sounds like a great gig, right?!

Check out the specifics on PSLawNet (login required, but remember — it’s free if your law school is already a subscriber!)

By: Steve Grumm

With 3Ls on the job hunt and bar results coming out (soon) for recent grads I figured it worth resurrecting a webinar that NALP produced earlier this year, “Destination Public Interest: Landing the Ideal Public Interest Job.”  The one-hour webinar offers best practices and tips in the areas of cover letter and résumé drafting, as well as interviewing and professional networking.

Presenters:

• Charlene Gomes, Senior Program Manager, Law School Advocacy and Outreach, Equal Justice Works
• Steve Grumm, Director of Public Service Initiatives, NALP
• Jennifer Thomas, Director of Recruiting, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia