University of Wisconsin Law School

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL CAREER SERVICES OFFICE

Note: This calendar does not contain an exhaustive list of all important career services dates and events. Instead, it is intended to give you a general sense of important deadlines and programs for planning purposes. We will add information periodically as it becomes known. In addition to noting the information in this calendar, please be sure also to check the weekly Law School Newsletter and read all Career Services e-mail messages.

THIRD-YEAR CALENDAR

AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER Sign up for mock interviews in the Career Services Office

Apply to U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General’s Honor Program (deadline is 9/19/05)

Send applications for post-graduate judicial clerkships (on 9/6/05, unless you know judge is accepting applications earlier)

Send résumés to employers participating in the Equal Justice Works Public Interest Career Fair and Conference (held in D.C. in late October)

Submit Equal Justice Works Fellowship application materials (deadline is 9/20/05)

Begin preparing materials to take advantage of the Wisconsin Diploma Privilege (Character and Fitness Certification application forms are put in 3L hang files in the fall and take a VERY long time to complete). Save $100 by filing by December 15.

Register to take the MPRE (if you have already taken the Professional Responsibilities course and do not plan to work in Wisconsin, and cannot or do not want to wait to take the MPRE in March). The MPRE date is November 4, 2005, and it is administered at the Law School.

OCTOBER Submit Skadden Fellowship application materials (2005 deadline is 10/5/05)

Submit Presidential Management Fellows Program applications (deadline is 10/14/05) Submit Fried Frank NAACP/MALDEF Fellowship applications

Register for a bar review course

Research state bar examination registration requirements and deadlines for the jurisdiction(s) you may be working in; some deadlines are as early as February 1

Make hotel and restaurant reservations for graduation weekend

Continue to contact legal employers of all sorts about legal jobs; check Job Bank, PSLawNet and other job listings regularly

NOVEMBER Attend graduation information session (with representatives from Bar/Bri, PMBR, the Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners, the State Bar Young Lawyers Division and the Wisconsin Law Alumni Association. Also includes information on the MPRE and planning for graduation events.)

DECEMBER Register for Midwest Public Interest Career Conference (held in Chicago in February)

JANUARY Gather information called for by bar exam applications (every address you have lived at for the last ten years; each employer you have worked for during the last ten years, character references, etc.)

Register for March MPRE (unless you will not be taking a bar exam)

FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL Complete and submit bar exam application Continue to contact legal employers of all sorts about legal jobs; check Job Bank, PSLawNet and other job listings regularly

Complete and submit Loan Repayment Assistance Grant application (if you might take a job with a government or public interest employer that pays less than $36,000/year)

Complete and submit Career Services Graduate Survey Form

MAY Attend graduation ceremonies

Be sure to keep in touch with Career Services staff with any employment-related questions