#Student Career Toolkit
This toolkit contains a collection of information regarding legal careers, best practices for job hunting and application preparation, and links to job postings and other helpful websites to assist you with your career planning.
Career Exploration
Guides
- Job Search Manual. An overview of the career opportunities available to Michigan Law students and advice for conducting an effective job search.
- Public Service Guides. Advice on pursuing a career in the public sector (i.e. goverment, non-profits, public defense).
- Top 25 Practice Area Guide. An overview of the various legal settings for the top 25 practice areas.
- LL.M. Career Guide: Summary of the job search and recruitment tools available for LL.M. students.
Practice Area Resources
- Top 25 Practice Areas and Sample Practice Settings
- Major, Lindsey Africa's Practice Area Summary
- Vault CareerInsider Online Library : Provides in-depth eBook employer guides as well as career field guides.
- Chambers Associate : See summaries of more than 20 major practice areas.
- HG.org : International legal web site with an extensive list of legal specialties and sub-specialties with numerous links to related resources.
- FindLaw Professional Development Center. Includes links for many practice areas, with articles about current developments.
- In the OCP Library, we have:
- The Official Guide to Legal Specialties: An Insider's Guide to Every Major Practice Area, (Lisa L. Abrams, 2000), published by NALP. Based on interviews with lawyers in thirty practice areas (most, but not all, in the private sector) who enjoy their work. It contains attorney profiles and other information, including a great deal of data about career tracks.
Job Search Checklists
Job Postings and Employer Research
Michigan Law Job Postings
- Symplicity . Log-in to Symplicity to access and apply for job postings, view employer profiles, and schedule appointments with the Office of Career Planning.
- MLS Email Groups. Keep up to date on internships and post-graduate job opportunities, upcoming programs, and can't-miss deadlines.
- International Summer Firm Internships
External Job Posting Sites and Employer Directories
These are some of our favorite resources for finding employers and job postings, but visit our Government . Judicial Clerkship . Law Firms OCI . and Public Interest pages for more!
- Alumni in Medium/Small Firms. List of alumni in firms with 11-100 attorneys.
- BYU Intercollegiate Job Bank. Database of job bulletins from law schools around the country.
- In House Internship Directory. Database of current and past in-house internship opportunities.
- Leadership Library : Directory of professionals (including judges) in federal, state, and local government, non-profits, and corporations searchable by geographic location, Alma Mater, and keyword.
- Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. Database of over one million lawyers and law firms in 160 countries.
- NALP Directory of Legal Employers. Directory of more than 1,600 legal employers nationwide.
- Non-OCI Law Firm Database. Database of small and mid-size firms and branch offices of large firms in select markets.
- PSJD. Online resource connecting public service law job-seekers with job opportunities.
- University of Arizona Government Honors Internship Handbook. Fairly comprehensive listing of summer and graduate honors programs within federal, state, and local government agencies.
- University of Arizona Public Policy Handbook. Database of public policy internships, fellowships, and jobs.
- University of Michigan Graduate and Undergraduate Career Services Websites and Resources
- USAJobs. The federal government's central place for job postings.
Preparing Your Application Materials
Preparing For Interviews
Networking
Private Sector Employment Evaluations: To search/review the evaluations in Symplicity, hover over the Profile tab on your Symplicity home screen. This will activate a drop down menu, from which you should select Evaluations. Next, select the Search option. This will allow you to search by employer or geographic area. If you leave the search criteria blank, this will return all of the evaluations in the database.
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