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Join OPIA for a community discussion with Wasserstein Fellow Sonia Carson ’12, an attorney for the Civil Division Appellate Staff at the U.S. Department of Justice. Sonia will discuss the surprising ways that real-life appellate practice differs from common stereotypes and the unique joys and challenges of representing the United States. Join her to learn how to become an appellate lawyer and why you can (and should!) begin your legal career in the public interest. Lunch provided. Please RSVP.

Join OPIA for a community discussion with Wasserstein Fellow Caitriona Fitzgerald, Deputy Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), in which she’ll discuss using a law degree to effect policy change. Caitriona will talk about her career path from staffer in the Massachusetts Legislature to policy advocate at a non-profit advocacy organization. She’ll provide insight on how to achieve policy impact as a public interest attorney and share her experiences fighting for changes to Big Tech’s business models. Come learn about the rewarding legal career path of policy advocacy! Lunch provided. Please RSVP.

Join OPIA for a community discussion with Wasserstein Fellow Jennifer Sang, partner at a boutique civil rights law firm that specializes in special education and employment. She will be discussing the unique challenges faced by low-income clients and their attorneys. Come learn about the organizations and law firms that take on this kind of work and how young lawyers can get into the field. Lunch provided. Please RSVP!

Deadline: September 15, 2023. Learn more about the Legal Fellow/Junior Legal Advisor position.
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Deadline: October 10, 2023. Learn more about the Investigating Attorney Fellow position.
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Deadline: Open until filled. Learn more about the Staff Attorney positions.
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Deadline: Open until filled. Learn more about the Legal Fellowship.
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Deadline: Open until filled. Learn more about the Fellowship.
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Deadline: October 27, 2023. Learn more about the Fellowship.
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Deadline: October 1, 2023. Learn more about the Honors Attorney Program.
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Deadline: September 12, 2023. Learn more about the Attorney-Advisor and the Law Clerk positions.
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Deadline: Open until filled. Learn more about the Faculty position.
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Both the opportunities and challenges of working in a small nonprofit are substantial. For those lucky enough to find an organization with a mission that aligns with your values, legal work can be extremely rewarding. Attorneys at small nonprofits often handle all stages of many different kinds of cases and have a wider variety of legal experience than their big firm peers. They are also involved in running and growing the organization and are responsible for seeing the organization through hard times. Join Wasserstein Fellow Mary Cromer as she talks about her career path from clerking, to working for a big green organization, to working for ACLC. She will also talk specifically about her time at ACLC and how my "work" here has been about much more than the work of running the organization's environmental justice program area. Lunch provided. RSVP below.

Join OPIA to learn more about the Public Service Leaders (PSL) Program and connect across sections with fellow public interest-minded 1Ls. The PSL program is designed to build supportive relationships and leadership skills among Harvard Law School’s public interest community. It offers 1L participants the opportunity to connect with other public interest-oriented students, participate in unique leadership development programming, and receive mentorship from like-minded alumni and upper-class students. This welcome event will introduce interested students to the program and begin to co-create our community. Stick around after the program for a social hour in the WCC Pub! RSVP to attend.

Join OPIA for an open Q&A session on the 3L job search. Snacks provided.

Interested in effective strategies to advance systemic social change? Join us! This lunch event — co-sponsored by the Systemic Justice Project and the Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising at Harvard Law School — will explore three core elements of systemic change: storytelling, organizing, and movement lawyering, in conversation with Blake Strode, the Executive Director of ArchCity Defenders, and Oren Nimni, the Litigation Director at Rights Behind Bars. The discussion will be grounded in a recent case that Strode and Nimni filed against City Justice Center, a St. Louis jail, for subjecting incarcerated people to excessive macing. Lunch will be provided.

Fellowships can be the gateway to new ideas and innovations and a critical component to a successful postgraduate public interest job search. Join OPIA's Director of Fellowships Judy Murciano for an overview of fellowships, grants, and scholarships that will support public interest work, study, research, and entrepreneurship in the U.S. and abroad. Lunch provided. Please RSVP!

Join OPIA for an overview of the 2L summer public interest job search. If you are a 2L planning to seek a public interest job and have not yet started your search, we particularly encourage you to attend! Lunch provided. Please RSVP.

Are you an LL.M interested in public interest lawyering? Join OPIA for an information session on the LL.M post-graduate public interest job search. We will provide an overview of public interest employment opportunities (and challenges) for LL.M’s to help you better strategize your job search. Lunch provided. Please RSVP.

OCS and OPIA would like to welcome back all returning 2Ls and 3Ls. Stop by for Lizzy’s ice cream & toppings. OCS and OPIA advisers will be on-hand to catch up and to answer any questions you may have.

Join Wasserstein Fellow Retu Singla for a discussion about the rise of the independent labor movement such as the Amazon Labor Union and Trader Joe’s, and how to use law to build the power of working people. Retu will share lessons from her career representing nascent unions and dissidents, and working within the larger civil rights and labor movement to change the conditions that lead to work exploitation. She will also discuss how to develop a legal practice based on anti-oppressive principles to win progressive change.