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			Identifying and Handling BAS ("Battered Associate Syndrome") During Your Job Transition By Dan Binstock Practicing law as an associate in a law firm is typically highly stressful. But when the stress gets you to the point where it becomes all-consuming, you may be a victim of what I refer to as BAS, a tongue-in-cheek acronym for ''Battered Associate Syndrome.'' Read on to find out about this increasingly common syndrome, and how to keep it in check while you make a job change. + read more Date: 09-05-2005

	Legal Professional Liability Insurance By Rachel Daniel So you just graduated law school, passed the bar, and are about to step into the legal field as an official, licensed attorney. Soon you'll realize that there's much more to legal practice than research, briefs, and court appearances. You must protect yourself and your future against any possible malpractice claims, legitimate or not. + read more Date: 08-29-2005

	Background Checks for Legal Government Jobs By Rachel Daniel Law Crossing allows you to search among thousands of open positions in many branches of government, including those at the federal, state, and local levels. From a position with the Department of Justice to an internship with the U.S. Navy, we have you well covered. This week, we'll examine what you might expect should you decide to pursue one of these governmental jobs, including subjecting yourself to a possible background check. + read more Date: 08-22-2005 Current rating: 2

	Part Two of Two: Civil Rights Expand Globally with Columbia Law school's Human Rights Internship Program By Erica Winter As 125 Columbia Law School students near the end of their public service work this summer, we will take a look at the law school's Human Rights Internship Program (HRIP). This program sends law students around the world, and around the United States, to work for public interest organizations seeking to improve human rights. + read more Date: 08-15-2005

	Columbia Law Students Work at Home and Abroad With the Human Rights Internship Program (Part 2) By Erica Winter Human rights issues are not limited by borders or nationalities — and this is aptly illustrated by the work Columbia University Law School students are doing this summer through the Human Rights Internship Program (HRIP). + read more Date: 08-15-2005

	Columbia Law Students Free to Pursue Public Interest Through Comprehensive Programs By Erica Winter This summer, a remarkably high number of students (125) from Columbia Law School is working in the public interest and human rights fields in two programs that offer both financial and institutional support. These two main public interest programs at Columbia Law-the Public Service Fellowship and the Human Rights Internship Program-are administered by the Center for Public Interest Law. + read more Date: 08-08-2005

	Students Get Inspired, Get Experience with Columbia Law School's Public Service Fellowships By Erica Winter Getting a paid legal job for your first summer after law school is a rare thing. Getting paid by the law school is rarer still. + read more Date: 08-08-2005

	University of San Diego School of Law Summer Abroad Programs Span the Globe, and Careers By Erica Winter To spend part or all of the summer studying abroad, law students can choose from programs in Barcelona, Dublin, Florence, London, Oxford, Paris, Moscow-St. Petersburg, or Mexico City - and those are just the programs run by the University of San Diego (USD) School of Law. + read more Date: 08-01-2005

	Learning About NAFTA In Mexico City: Study Abroad Brings Knowledge to Life By Erica Winter After a friend and fellow classmate at North Carolina Central University School of Law returned from a study abroad program in Mexico City and sang its praises, Dave Hall decided to go. + read more Date: 08-01-2005

	Summer Public Interest Funding Growing at Vanderbilt By Erica Winter How much would you pay to be Dean of your law school for a day? One Vanderbilt University Law School student paid $1,000 for the privilege when he made the winning bid to be ''Dean for a Day,'' one of the more high-profile items at the Legal Aid Society's auction benefiting the Public Interest Stipend Fund, which helps students to do unpaid or low-paying public interest summer work. + read more Date: 07-25-2005

	Stipend is Added Bonus, Not a Requirement for Driven Vanderbilt Law Students Following Their Public Interest Callings By Erica Winter Vanderbilt University Law School's Public Interest Stipend did not enable Rachel Jordan to work with the ACLU of Tennessee this summer - she would have worked there no matter what, she says. The stipend, however, which will give her $5,000 for spending her entire summer doing public interest work, is allowing her to forgo a part-time job so she can do more volunteer work in the community, in addition to her full time schedule with the ACLU. + read more Date: 07-25-2005

	Workers' Rights Clinic Links Law School with Legal Aid By Erica Winter The Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, San Francisco, has teamed up with Bay-area law schools to provide free legal services to low-income people facing problems in the workplace. The Bay Area Workers' Rights Clinics program seeks to extend the Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center's (LAS-ELS) mission of providing ''sound practical advice on legal rights in the workplace,'' says LAS-ELS senior staff attorney Mike Gaitley. + read more Date: 07-18-2005

	Compassionate Practice at Core of Santa Clara Law Workers' Rights Clinic By Erica Winter At Santa Clara University School of Law, having the workers' rights clinic running year-round provides ''continuity in the community,'' says supervising attorney Margarita Alvarez. In fact, workers' rights clinics are up and running all around the San Francisco Bay area this summer through the Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center, San Francisco, and its Bay Area Workers' Rights Clinics program. + read more Date: 07-18-2005

	Law Students Get a Summer Taste of Clerking in University of Minnesota Law School's Judicial Externship By Erica Winter The judicial externship course at the University of Minnesota Law School is so popular that 60 students are participating this summer. ''The online registration closes after about five minutes,'' says Professor Carol Chomsky, who teaches the externship course. ''Summer is big,'' she says. ''The demand is very high. Word has spread.'' + read more Date: 07-11-2005

	University of Minnesota Law Students See Courts in Action Through Judicial Externship By Erica Winter Dave Nardolillo chose to attend the University of Minnesota Law School in part because of its clinics and externship program, and now he is one of 60 law students this summer taking the law school's judicial externship course. + read more Date: 07-11-2005

	Crowell & Moring Makes a Tradition of Summer Associate Public Service Program By Erica Winter Crowell & Moring is, by all accounts, a good place to work. Recent accolades of the Washington, DC-based law firm include making Washington Business Journal's list of the 50 Best Places to Work and winning the Constance L. Belfiore Quality of Life Award from the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. + read more Date: 07-04-2005

	Crowell & Moring Summer Associates Past and Present Find Great Opportunity in Public Interest Program By Erica Winter Whether they are now practicing law or are law students just getting started with the summer's work, both past and present participants of Crowell & Moring's Summer Associate Public Service Program greatly value the experiences it gave, and is giving, them. + read more Date: 07-04-2005

	Northwestern University School of Law's Center on Wrongful Convictions Fights the Uphill Battle—and Sometimes Wins By Erica Winter Northwestern University School of Law's Center on Wrongful Convictions, part of its clinical program, was founded ''to identify and rectify wrongful convictions and other serious miscarriages of justice,'' says its Executive Director, Rob Warden. + read more Date: 06-27-2005

	Law Students Actively Involved in Northwestern's Center on Wrongful Convictions By Erica Winter It's not a typical summer job. Law students working at Northwestern University School of Law's Center on Wrongful Convictions hit the ground running as they seek to prove clients' innocence or lesser culpability in cases where a court has already ruled. + read more Date: 06-27-2005

	Equal Justice Works Summer Corps Rewards Law Students Doing Public Interest Summers By Erica Winter In a way, becoming part of the Equal Justice Works Summer Corps is pretty easy. The AmeriCorps-sponsored program is run by the group Equal Justice Works, Washington, DC, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting public interest legal work and careers. The Summer Corps is a group of law students doing summer public interest internships - for which they receive a $1,000 voucher for educational expenses at the end of their summer stints. + read more Date: 06-20-2005

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