Services

Office of Career Planning & Placement

Services provided by the School of Law Office of Career Planning & Placement include:

• Individualized career counseling to meet each student's career and life goals.

• Career education programming related to the many career options open to those holding a J.D. Topics include judicial clerkships, solo and small-firm practice, in-house corporate practice, large law firms, summer clerkships and internships, public interest law, government practice, and alternative careers for lawyers.

• Job-search skills workshops and online handbooks to assist in resume and cover-letter writing, networking, researching employers, and interviewing skills.

• The Career Resource & Placement Library offers materials on resumes, cover letters, networking, and other job-search skills as well as job lists from other schools and clearinghouses and information files on employers and practice areas.

• Access to subscription-only job search web sites such as LawCrossing, the BYU Law School Job Bulletin Clearinghouse, the federal government Honors Handbook, and listings for state-level judicial clerkships.

• On-campus interviews and job fairs where law firms, government agencies, businesses, and public interest organizations seek to hire School of Law graduates. A broad range of legal employers from many cities participate in the School of Law's on-campus interview program. We also participate in off-campus job fairs in Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., in order to increase interview opportunities for minority students and those interested in public interest positions.

• Online job statistics on bar passage, employment rates for previous years, grading scales, and honors earned by our students.

• Access to student positions through the Research Clearinghouse. Students may obtain ad hoc research jobs for practicing attorneys. Students participating in the Research Clearinghouse are paid in accordance with agreements worked out between student and attorney. This clearinghouse provides practical experience for students who wish to work with an attorney on live-client issues but cannot commit time to a regular clerkship.

• Employment, salary, and bar passage statistics for students, graduates, and employers. As a member of the National Association for Law Placement, we receive statistical information on legal employment throughout the United States and elsewhere.

• Bar exam information, including early registration requirements for various states. We provide students who wish to practice law in other states with the information they need to register and prepare for taking that state's bar exam.