The Labor & Employment team has completed recruitment for its 2012 Fellowship Program. 

Having successfully piloted the 2011 Labor & Employment Fellowship Program, 2012’s program continues a new approach to developing law students in preparation for greater success as labor and  employment attorneys in a competitive marketplace.  The Fellows are given the opportunity to develop robust, hands-on skills that build upon and complement their formal law school education by:

• Understanding -- on a day-to-day basis -- the evolving legal profession and the core business issues that confront both attorneys and the clients they serve.
• Exploring their specific legal interests; and helping them establish and cultivate a vibrant, functioning professional network.

With these objectives in mind, the Firm recruits 2L students with strong academic credentials and a demonstrated interest in labor and employment law.  This interest is evidenced though participating in or completing labor and employment law coursework or a certificate program, prior work experience in human resources and/or labor or employee relations, and a strong desire to develop a labor and employment law practice upon graduation.  The components of the Fellowship Program include:

• An 8-week (40 hours per week), paid experience
• A specialized training curriculum including substantive seminars on important labor and employment topics as well as training in ethics, client service, marketing, legal writing, communications, and finance. The specialized curriculum is taught by leading practitioners from Seyfarth Shaw, one of the nation’s largest, most respected law firms in labor and employment law as well as by business and government leaders.
• Practical experiences include attending depositions, court appearances and client meetings. Participants will be involved in working on active cases and client projects. Fellows may also have opportunities to ‘job shadow’ with in-house labor and employment counsel client contacts.

Please check back for more information about Summer of 2013 plans.

“[The greatest program strength was] working on projects and then attending the arbitration/settlement conference/court proceeding for those cases.”

“I had a great time at my client shadowing day.  It was an excellent experience to view the law through the client’s perspective.”

“The best parts of the training curriculum were learning the substantive areas of the law about which I had no idea, such as OSHA or traditional labor.”