Career Services (801) 422-3685 career_services@law.byu.edu
2 BYU Law School Why Hire BYU Law Students? BYU Law Students and Graduates Are Among the Best and Brightest BYU is a top tier law school. Admissions data (75th percentile), taken from ABA-LSAC information shows that BYU law student admission scores are among the highest in the nation (see chart on page 3). Since its founding in 1973, BYU Law School has had 13 U.S. Supreme Court clerkships, a remarkable accomplishment for a young law school. About 75% of BYU law students speak a second language. Languages include: Spanish, Russian, Japanese, French, German, Cantonese, Mandarin, Arabic and many others.
GPA 3.8+ 3 Career Services Admissions Data (75th Percentile) LSAT 166+ 160-165 155-159 Berkeley Boston U Columbia CUNY Duke Georgetown G.W. Harvard Illinois Michigan Minnesota New York Northwestern Pennsylvania Stanford Texas UCLA Vanderbilt Virginia Washington Yale Alabama George Mason Georgia Iowa IN-Bloomington Kentucky Penn State Toledo Washington 3.6-3.79 Buffalo Cardozo Chicago Cornell Emory Hawaii Maryland Notre Dame USC Wash. & Lee Wash. U William & Mary Akron American Arizona State Arizona Baylor Boston College Brandeis Brooklyn Case Western Chicago Kent Cincinnati Colorado Connecticut Denver DePaul Drexel Florida State Florida Georgia State Houston IN-Indianapolis Kansas Lewis & Clark Loyola-Chicago Loyola-Marymt Miami MO-Columbia Nebraska Nevada Northeastern Ohio State Oklahoma Oregon Pace Pepperdine Pittsburgh Quinnipiac Richmond Rutgers-Cam Seattle Seton Hall S. Carolina St. John s St. Louis Temple Tennessee Tulane UC-Davis UC-Hastings Utah Villanova Wake Forest Wisconsin Arkansas AR-Little Rock Baltimore Cleveland State Creighton Drake Duquesne Gonzaga Hamline Louisiana State Marquette Memphis Mercer Michigan State Mississippi MO-Kansas City Montana N. Kentucky New Mexico Ohio Northern Regent S. Dakota S. Illinois Stetson Texas Tech Tulsa W. Virginia Washburn Wayne State William Mitchell Wyoming Why Hire BYU Law Students? The data was taken from the ABA-LSAC Official Guide to ABA- Approved Law Schools, 2010 Edition for the entering class of 2008. This chart is based on an original concept by Boston College entitled NAPLA Law School Locator.
4 BYU Law School Rex E. Lee Advocacy Program (continued from Why Hire BYU Law Students?) First-year law students are required to participate in the Rex E. Lee Advocacy Program. In this rigorous and comprehensive program, students undergo intense training in legal analysis, writing, research, and simulated courtroom oral advocacy. These experiences prepare them for the challenges of their first-year summer employment and beyond. Exceptional Moot Court and Trial Advocacy Teams BYU Law students won two national (Moot Court and Trial Advocacy) competitions in the 2008-2009 school year. Place Competition Host School Additional Awards First Religious Freedom George Washington Best Brief First National First Amendment Vanderbilt Best Brief Finalists ABA Regional University of Miami 6th Best Oralist Semifinalists ABA Regional University of Miami 4th Best Brief Semifinalists National Security George Washington 2nd Best Oralist, 3rd Best Brief Semifinalists Civil Rights Minnesota 2nd Best Oralist, 5th Best Brief
5 Career Services What Career Services Can Do for You We can connect you with BYU law students or alumni by providing a variety of services to make finding the right student or graduate easier for you. Services Include: On-campus Interviews Resume Collections Job Fairs Posting a Job Externship Program Research Pool What Career Services Can Do for You
Our Services 6 BYU Law School There is no fee to participate in any of our programs and employers can prescreen all candidates. On-campus Interviews are held twice a year, in the fall and in the early spring. Interviewing at the school will provide you with the broadest applicant pool possible. Our interview schedules are flexible, allowing you to set interviews any time from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Lunch for each interviewer will be provided as desired. Resume Collections can occur at any time. We can send you a packet of applications to review at your leisure. Interviews can be scheduled on campus or in your office at your convenience. Job Fairs are held at various locations throughout the year including Southern California (August), Nevada (September), and the on-campus Winter Job Fair (January). Job Fairs are held at a central location in a particular city. This option provides you with the convenience of limited travel time and expense, as well as the assurance that candidates are interested in your city, since the students travel on their own dime. The DC / NYC Early Interviewing Program takes place in early August. There is no fee to participate and you can prescreen all candidates. This option provides you with the convenience of interviewing students in your own office and assures you that students are interested in your city, since they pay their own travel expenses. To participate in on-campus interviews, resume collections, the early interviewing program or a job fair, please register at: https://law-byu-csm.symplicity.com/employers. Questions? Call (801) 422-3685.
7 Career Services Posting a Job Four Easy Ways to Post a Job With Us 1. Email the posting to us at cssec1@law.byu.edu or call (801) 422-3685 with the information you would like to post. In addition to your job specifications, please include the job posting s expiration date; if not included, the default date will be six weeks. 3. Fax it. Send your completed Job Notice Form to: (801) 422-0392. The Job Notice Form is available at: http://www.law2.byu.edu/jobnoticeform. 4. Stop by the Career Services Office and fill out a form while you are visiting the law school. Our Services / Posting a Job 2. Post a job online through our Symplicity System at: https://law-byu-csm.symplicity.com. Click for employers and follow the directions once you have logged in. Once you submit the pertinent information, we will email your posting to students and/or alumni.
Externship Program 8 BYU Law School We invite you to consider hiring a BYU Law School extern. The externship program is mutually beneficial for both you and the students. The externship program is designed to provide a real-life, capstone experience for students who have completed their first year of study at BYU Law School. Students earn one unit of law school credit, in lieu of pay, for each 50 hours of work, up to a maximum of six units during the summer. Students are also able to do externships, on a more limited basis, during the academic year. An externship provides students the opportunity to put theory into practice while providing employers a costefficient law clerk. Practice Areas, Office Types, and Locations Our students perform externships in all types of offices including law firms of every size, government and public interest agencies, judges chambers, and corporations. Students work throughout the country, with one-third of the first-year class typically working in international locations. By the time they graduate, about 90% of students have done an externship.
9 Career Services Frequently Asked Questions How do I hire an extern? We welcome the opportunity to talk to you about your externship needs. You can learn more online at: http://www.law2.byu.edu/externships or contact Karen Andrews at: andrewsk@law.byu.edu or (801) 422-5479. How do externs differ from law clerks? Is there a lot of paperwork? There are brief, easy-to-use forms that supervisors complete with the student extern. These forms can be found at: http://www.law2.byu.edu/externshipforms.php. Can students receive pay for their work? Currently, no. ABA rules state that a student cannot receive pay if they are receiving externship credit. Externship Program The primary difference is that externs are working for credit, rather than pay. You can give externs the same assignments you typically give law clerks.
Research Pool 10 BYU Law School The Research Pool is a great option for employers who have projects or temporary work, but who are unable to hire anyone permanently. Students and recent graduates gain experience, work directly with an attorney, and gain important research skills. When you call or send us a project, we will immediately notify participating students and refer one to you. Your researcher must be supervised by a licensed member of the bar. The rate of pay is negotiable, with a suggested minimum of $20 per hour. If the project requires special qualifications, please note these when requesting a researcher. See the following link to fill out the employer request form: http://www.law2.byu.edu/projectrequestform.php
11 Career Services Raising Your Profile at BYU 1. Volunteer to mentor a 1L student during the first year of law school and attend the kick-off breakfast (August) 2. Sponsor a Founders Day Dinner Table (August) 3. Sponsor a hole at the Annual Law School Golf Tournament (August) 4. Help strengthen our students interviewing skills by participating in our Mock Interview Fair (November) 5. Educate students about your firm or organization by joining our Winter Job Fair (January) 6. Participate in fall On-campus Interviews (late August - mid October) or spring On-campus Interviews (February) 7. Participate in our Lend a Grad a Hand Program--hire recent graduates for up to six months to do contract work while they are searching for full-time employment 8. Enlighten our students about your area of practice as a guest speaker in our Lecture Series or at a brown bag event 9. Volunteer to help sponsor or make a presentation at one of the school s CLE events Research Pool / Raising Your Profile at BYU
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