State Bar of Wisconsin

Career Center

Getting your degree is just the beginning. Visit Career Central for links to job sites and resume/interview tips that will help you in your pursuit of gainful employment. And while you're there, make sure you make the connection with the State Bar of Wisconsin's own Legal Career Center.

• Legal Career Center: Through a national network, WisBar gives legal employers a powerful tool for recruiting legal professionals-from attorneys to paralegals and other support staff. Job seekers have free access to thousands of current law-related position openings, searchable by job type, area of practice, and geographic location.
• Hot Legal Jobs: The 2008 Salary Guide, published by Robert Half Legal, a legal staffing company, identifies five positions as “in-demand” in 2008.
• Classified ads: Get the latest job openings from theWisBar and Wisconsin Lawyer classified ads.
• Pro Bono Opportunities: Getting involved in providing legal services to low-income residents is a great way to learn practical lawyering skills, client interviewing techniques, network with practicing lawyers and learn more about different substantive areas of law. This site offers useful resources to help you learn more about pro bono opportunities in Wisconsin.
• Law Student Associate Program - Take your law school experience to the next level by becoming a State Bar of Wisconsin Law Student Associate - at absolutely no cost to you!
• Diversity Clerkship Program - To further support the goal of diversity within the legal profession, The State Bar of Wisconsin facilitates a summer clerkship for first-year law students with diverse backgrounds. The program is open to University of Wisconsin Law School students and Marquette University Law School students. Students are matched with private law firms, corporate legal departments and governmental agencies.

Other job sites

• ABA Law Student Division Career Corner: A useful website with links to career, volunteer, and internship opportunities.
• Career Development resources on WisBar: Resources related to career development.
• CareerBuilder.com: The nation's largest employment network - find jobs locally or nationally.
• LawCrossing: The Law Student Channel: Search from the largest collection of active legal jobs in the world.
• Monster.com: Find a great job. Meet the right people. Make big things happen for yourself and your career. Monster will show you how.
• National Association for Law Placement (NALP.org): Since 1971, The National Association for Law Placement, Inc.® (NALP) has served as the premier source of information for legal career planning and recruitment. NALP's mission is to meet the needs of all participants in the legal employment process for information, coordination and standards.
  
• University of Wisconsin Law School: Career Opportunities: Career opportunities and advice from the University of Wisconsin Law School
• Vault Internship Board: Vault's Internship Board listing of paid and unpaid internships.
• Web sites with jobs & career info: Government / Policy / Law / Law Enforcement: Links you to other helpful sites.

Resumes/interviews

• Internship Do's and Don'ts: The value of one or more internships to college students cannot be overstated. Internships have simply become a must for all college students. Internships help you better understand your field, help cement (or at times change) your career goals, and give you the experience employers demand -- even of college graduates.
• Monster Interview Center: Free interview advice from Monster.
• Quintessential Careers Job Interviewing Tutorial: Job interviewing tutorial, This free tutorial is designed to help you become more knowledgeable about all aspects of job interviews, from the importance of establishing rapport, to nonverbal cues, to types of interviews and types of interview questions (and how to best answer them). This interviewing tutorial is full of strategies and tips -- for all levels and types of job-seekers.