PUBLIC INTEREST AND GOVERNMENT LINKS
PUBLIC INTEREST
JOB SEARCH WEBSITES
ABANET,
Law Student Division Corner - career resources and guidance, volunteer
opportunites, internships, and job postings.
American
Society for Public Administration - career opportunities in public administration.
Community
Career Center - non-profit job search site.
Environmental
Career Opportunities - environmental job search site.
Equal
Justice America Legal Services Fellowships - summer and school
year fellowships for students who work for organizations providing
direct civil legal assistance for the poor.
Equal
Justice Works - information on public interest law career
fair, job opportunities, and felllowships.
Everett
Public Service Internship Program - summer public service
internships in Washington D.C. and New York City.
Government
Honors and Internships - information on federal government
honors and summer programs for lawyers and law students. E-mail
career services for password.
GovtJobs
- job opportunities in the public sector.
Hillzoo - jobs on Capital Hill and "off-the-hill"
Human Rights
Internet - positions, both law-related and other, in human
rights organizations around the world.
Human
Rights USA Resource Center - jobs, fellowships, and internships
with human rights organizations.
Idealist
- job listings, internships, and volunteer opportunites with non-profits
and community organizations throughout the world
Illinois
Legal Aid - a list of legal aid and policy positions available in Illinois.
NPO.net Job Service - listing of
jobs available, both legal and non-legal in the Chicago area.
National
Center for Adoption Law and Policy's Adoption Jobsite - paid
and volunteer positions for law students with child welfare and
adoption law and policy employers.
National
Lawyers Guild - posts jobs, internships, and fellowships.
National Legal
Aid and Defense Organization - positions in civil legal services,
defender organizations, pro bono and public interest organizations,
public interest law firms and academia.
Nonprofit
Oyster - search legal and non-legal jobs in the non-profit
sector.
Office of
Personnel Management -information on jobs and summer opportunities
in federal agencies across the country searchable by position,
salary, and geographic location.
Opportunities in
Public Affairs - public affair job openings in the Washington
D. C. area.
Opportunity
Knocks - nonprofit jobs and career opportunities.
Politix
Group -political and government jobs and internships.
Public Interest Clearinghouse - information on summer grants and fellowships for
law students.
Public Interest
Law Initiative (PILI) - internships and fellowships for law
students and new graduates at public interest law agencies in
Chicago.
Public Service
Law Network (PSLAWNET) info on a wide variety of public interest
positions, including volunteer opportunities, paid summer positions,
and post-graduate positions and fellowships. The first time you
access the site you will need to register as a Chicago-Kent student
or alumni/ae.
ReliefWeb
- lists positions, both law-related and other, in humanitarian
organizations around the world.
Society
of American Law Teachers Jobs Page (SALT) - lists public interest
law jobs.
Sustainable
Business Environmental Law - lists "Green Dream"
jobs.
Union Jobs
Clearinghouse - staffing and trade positions in organized
labor.
University
of Michigan Law School -search for summer jobs, fellowships,
permanent jobs, and temporary jobs in the public sector.
ILLINOIS
LEGAL AID AND SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
Illinois Pro Bono,
click on "Directory" tab for a comprehensive listing of
all Illinois client-oriented/legal aid and policy organizations.
LEGAL
AID & SERVICE ORGANIZATION / RESOURCES BY STATE
The following list is representative and does not include every legal aid organization in the state. Visit the Career Services Office to review "Serving the Public: A Job Search Guide" for additional organizations.
If you are seeking a job outside of Illinois, review this job search handout Out of State Job Search.
NON-PROFIT PUBLIC INTEREST ORGANIZATIONS
AND RESOURCES BY SUBJECT AREA
The following list includes some Chicago area organizations, but not all of them. Be sure to visit Illinois Pro Bono,
click on "Directory" tab for a comprehensive listing of
all Illinois client-oriented/legal aid and policy organizations.
Adoption
National
Center for Adoption Law and Policy
New York Council on Adoptable Children
Animal
Animal Law (Chicago, IL)
AIDS/HIV
AIDS Action Committee
(Massachusettes)
AIDS Action (National)
AIDS Alliance for Children,
Youth and Families (National)
AIDS Community Research Consortium
(California)
AIDS Legal Council of Chicago
AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the
San Francisco Bay Area
AIDS-Related Community Services
(New York's Hudson Valley)
Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Inc. (APICHA)
(New York, NY)
Bailey House (New York)
Gay Men's Health Crisis (New
York)
HIV Law Project (New York)
Lambda Legal Defense &
Education Fund (National & Chicago Office)
Latino Commission on AIDS
Legal Action Center (New York,
Washington, D.C)
Long Island (New York)
Association for AIDS Care, Inc. l
Mobile AIDS Support Services
[MASS] Helps (Southwest Alabama)
National AIDS Fund (Washington,
D.C.)
National Center for Lesbian Rights
New
York AIDS Coalition
Positive Resource Center
(San Francisco, CA)
Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation
Stop AIDS Project (San
Francisco, CA)
Whitman-Walker Clinic (Washington,
DC)
Anti-Hunger
Food Research and
Action Center
Children's Advocacy
ABA
Juvenile Justice Center
Advocates for Children
(Colorado)
Advocates for Children
(New York)
Child Care Law Center
(California)
Children's Defense Fund
Child Welfare League of America
Court Appointed Special
Advocates
Covenant House (New
Jersey)
Education Law Center
(New Jersey)
Education Law Center (Pennsylvania)
The Family Center
(New York)
Juvenile Law Center (Philadelphia,
PA)
Montgomery Area Children's
Advocacy Project
National Center for Youth Law
(Oakland, CA)
Rocky
Mountain Children's Law Center (Denver, CO)
Support Center for Child Advocates (Philadelphia, PA)
Youth Law Center
Civil Liberties/Rights
Groups - General
American Civil Liberties
Union
ACLA National Capital Area
The Becket Fund for Religious
Liberty
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Individual Rights
Chicago Lawyers' Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law, Inc
Citizens Commission on Civil Rights
Civil Rights.Org
Ella Baker Center for
Human Rights (San Francisco, CA)
Equal Rights Center
Human Rights Watch
Independence Institute
Innocence Project
Institute on Race and Poverty-University
of Minnesota Law School
Lawyers Committee for Civil
Rights Under Law
Mexican American Legal Defense
and Education Fund
NAACP
National Asian Pacific American
Legal Consortium
New York Civil Liberties Union
New York Civil Liberties
Union - Nassau County Chapter
Pacific Legal Foundation
People for the American Way Foundation
The Rutherford Institute
Southern Center for Human Rights
Southern Poverty Law Center
Texas Civil
Rights Project
Citizen Advocacy / Corporate
Accountablility
Citizen
Advocacy Center
Citizen Works
Common Cause
Corporate Watch - Corporate
Responsibility
Essential Information
Government Accountability
Project
Public Citizen
Public
Interest Resource Center (PIRG) (Chicago-Kent)
Texans for Public Justice
Consumer Advocacy
National Consumer
Law Center
Criminal
ABA
Criminal Justice Section
Center for Community
Alternatives
Criminal Justice
Resources on the Web
Innocence Project
Open Society Institute:
Criminal Justice Initiative
New York State Defender Association
National District Attorneys Association
National Legal Aid and Defender
Organization
Disability / Elder
Advocacy
Center for Persons with Disabilities (New York)
Advocacy, Inc (Austin,
TX)
Alabama Disability Advocacy Program
Alamo Resource Center
Arizona Center for Disability Law
Asian & Pacific
Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Inc. (APICHA) (New York)
Association for the Help of
Retarded Children (New York)
Bazelon Center for Mental Health
Law (Washington, DC)
California Center for Law and
the Deaf
Center for Medicare
Advocacy
Community Health Law Project
(New Jersey)
Dallas Legal Hospice
Disability Law Center (Massachusetts)
Disability Law Project (Pennsylvania)
Disability Rights Advocates (California)
Disability Rights Center (Maine)
Georgia Advocacy Office
Hawaii Disability
Rights Center
The Hawkins Center of
Law and Services for the Disabled (Richmond, CA)
Human Services Research Institute
Landmine Survivors
Network
Legal Center for People
with Disabilities and Older People (Colorado)
Medicare Rights Center
Michigan Protection
and Advocacy Service
National Academy of Elder Law
Attorneys
National Association of the Deaf
National Senior Citizens Law Center
Paralyzed Veterans of America
Western Law Center for Disability
Rights (Los Angeles, CA)
Discrimination
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee
Anti-Defamation League
Asian Americans for Equality
Asian American Legal Defense
and Education Fund (New York)
Asian Law Caucus
(San Francisco, CA)
Asian Pacific American Legal Center
(APALC) of Southern California
Asian Pacific American Legal Resource
Center (Washington, DC)
Asian Pacific Islander
Legal Outreach (San Francisco, CA)
Central American Resource
Center (CARECEN) (San Francisco,CA)
Gay & Lesbian Advocates &
Defenders (Boston, MA)
Gender Public Advocacy Coalition
Lamba Legal
LeGal (Lesbian and Gay Law Association
of Greater New York)
Immigration Equality - formerly The Lesbian and Gay Immigration
Rights Task Force
Lifelong AIDS Alliance
(Seattle, Washington)
Maryland Disability Law Center
National Center for Lesbian
Rights
New York Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence
Project
New York State Division of Human
Rights
Parents, Family and Friend of
Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
Domestic Violence
Break
the Cycle (Los Angeles, CA)
California Alliance Against Domestic
Violence
Casa Myrna Vazquez, Inc.
(Boston, MA)
Center for Anti-Violence Education
(Brooklyn, NY)
Center for Battered
Women's Legal Services - Sanctuary for Families (New York)
CORA - Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse (San Mateo
County, CA)
Family Violence Prevention
Fund
Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project
(Cambridge, MA)
Houston Area Women's Center
National Coalition Against Domestic
Violence
New York Asian Women's Center
Next Door - Solutions to Domestic
Violence (Santa Clara County, CA)
Pace Law
Schools Women's Justice Center (New York)
Safe
Horizon Immigration Law Project (New York)
STAND! Against Domestic
Violence (Concord, CA)
Support Network for Battered Women
(Mountain View, CA)
Texas Council on Family Violence
Women Empowered Against
Violence Inc. (WEAVE) (Washington, DC)
Environment
Amazing
Environmental Organization Web Directory
Center for Environmental Law &
Policy (Seattle, WA)
Center for International Environmental
Law
Communities for a Better Environment
(California)
Conservation Law Foundation
Defenders of Wildlife
E Jobs - Environmental Jobs
and Careers
Earth Rights International
Earthjustice
Econet
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
(E-Law)
Environmental Advocates of New
York
Environmental Defense
Fund
Envirolink
Environmental Career
Center
Environmental Careers Organization
Environmental Career Opportunities
Environmental Justice Resource
Center at Clark Atlanta University
Environmental Law and Policy Center
of the Midwest (Chicago, IL)
Environmental Law Institute
Environmental, Natural
Resource and Energy Law
Farmers Legal Action Group
Friends of the Earth
Greenpeace
International Council for Local
Environmental Initiatives
Mid-Atlantic Environmental Law
Center (MAELC) (Wilmington, DE)
Mid-West Environmental
Advocates (Madison, WI)
National Association of State Public
Interest Research Groups (PIRGS)
National Audubon Society
National Energy-Environment Law
& Policy Institute (Tulsa, OK)
Natural Resources Defense Council
(NRDC)
National Wildlife Federation
New York Environmental Law
& Justice Project
Sierra Club
Southern Environmental Law Center
(Atlanta, GA)
Sustainable Business
Environmental Law
Western Environmental
Law Center
Yale
Guide to Environmental Law
Family
Association of
Community Organizations For Reform Now (Acorn) (D.C)
Community Law Program
(Southern Pinellas County, Florida)
Family Justice
(New York)
Guide to Careers in Child
and Famly Policy
Health Care
Center for Reproductive
Rights (New York)
National Health Law Program
Planned Parenthood
Federation of America - National Office
Homelessness/Housing
ABA
Commission on Homelessness and Poverty
Business and Professional
People for the Public Interest
Coalition for the Homeless
(Houston, TX)
Coalition for
the Homeless (New York)
Corporation for Supportive Housing (New York)
Fair Housing
Georgia Law Center for the
Homeless
Homeless Action Center
(Alameda County, CA)
National Coalition
for the Homeless
National Law Center on Homelessness
and Poverty
The Partnership
for the Homeless (New York)
Supportive Housing Network of
New York
Urban Justice Center
(New York)
Human Rights
African Development
Foundation
America Bar Association
Central & Eastern European (ABA-CEELI)
American Refugee Committee
Amnesty International
Amnesty International
USA
Canadian Human Rights Foundation
Care
Carnegie Council on Ethics and
International Affairs (CCEIA) (New York)
Center for International
Human Rights Law
The Center for Reproductive Law
& Policy
Center
for Sustainable Human Rights Action
Coalition on Human Needs
Derechos
Human Rights Internet
Human Rights Resource
Center
Human Rights
Watch
Institute
for Global Communications
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (San Francisco)
Global Rights - formerly the International Human Rights Law Group
International Red Cross
International Rescue
Committee
Human Rights First
- formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Lawyers Without
Borders
Minnesota Advocates for Human
Rights (MNA)
One World Website
Organization of American States
Relief Web
Rights International:
The Center for International Human Rights Law
Southern Center for Human Rights
UN Organizations
United Nations
United Nations System of Organizations
U.S. Agency for International
Development
US Peace Corps
Women's Commission
for Refugee Women and Children
Immigration
American Immigration
Lawyers Association
Capital Area Immigrants' Rights
Coalition (CAIR) (Washington, DC)
Coalition for Humane Immigrant
Rights of Los Angeles
National
Immigration Project of the NLG
Safe Horizon Immigration
Law Project (New York)
Non-Profit
Job Websites and Resources
Community
Career Center
Foundation Center
Grassroots
Idealist
Independent Sector
International Center for Non-for-Profit
Law
Internet Non-Profit Center
Nonprofit Career Network
Nonprofit Oyster
Opportunity Knocks
Poverty
CARE International
Center of Law and Social Policy
(Washington, DC)
National Center on Poverty
Law (Chicago, IL)
Welfare Law Center
VISTA
Prisoner Rights
ACLU
National Prison Project
Chicago Legal Advocacy for
Incarcerated Mothers
D.C. Prisoner's Legal
Services Project
Legal Services for
Prisoners with Children
Massachusetts Correctional Legal
Services
North Carolina Prisoner Legal
Services
The Osbourne Association (Long
Island City, NY)
Pennsylvania
Institutional Law Project
Prison Fellowship Ministries
(Washington, DC)
Prison Law Office (San
Quentin, CA)
Public Interest Organizations
& Resources - Miscellaneous
Alliance for Justice
Center for Law in the Public Interest
(Santa Monica, CA)
Center for Law & Social Policy
HandsNet - Linking Human
Services Professionals
Illinois Pro Bono
Kent Justice
Foundation, Chicago-Kent student organization
Legal Services Corporation
Make the Road By Walking
(Brooklyn, NY)
National Lawyers Guild
National Veterans Legal Services
Program
New York Lawyers for the Public
Interest
Public Interest Clearinghouse
Public Interest Law
Center (Santa Ana, CA)
Public
Interest Resource Center (PIRC), Chicago-Kent student organization
Public Justice Center
(Baltimore, MD)
Rand
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
Urban Institute
Women's Rights
California Women's
Law Center
Equal Rights Advocates
(San Francisco, CA)
Feminists for Free Expression
Feminist Majority Foundation
Ms. Foundation - The National
Women's Fund
National Organization for Women
National Partnership
for Women and Families
Legal Momentum - formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund
National Women's Law Center
(Washington, DC)
Northwest Women's Law Center
(Seattle, WA)
Women Employed (Chicago, IL)
Women Empowered Against
Violence
Women's Law Center of Maryland
Women's Policy, Inc.
PRIVATE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW FIRMS
Just Advocates
Institute for Justice
PRO BONO SITES & RESOURCES
ABA
Directory of Pro Bono Programs, ABA's Center for Pro Bono
ABA
Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service
American Association
Law Schools Section on Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities
Corporate ProBono.Org
Directory
of Pro Bono Legal Services Providers for Environmental Justice
Illinois Legal Aid Online
Lawyers Without
Borders
Learning to
Serve, The Findings and Proposals of the AALS Commission on Pro
Bono and Public Service Opportunities, AALS Pro Bono Project
Pro Bono Institute
Probono.Net
Public Service Law Network (PSLAWNET)
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC INTEREST
WEBSITES (See also Human Rights and Immigration
Organizations and Resources above)
International Center for Non-Profit
Law
International Jobs Center
World Bank
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES & JOB
SEARCH SITES
ABA Government & Public
Sector Lawyers Division
Careers in Government
Central Intelligence Agency
Comptroller of the Currency,
Administration of National Banks
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of
Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland
Security
Department of Housing and Urban
Development
Department of Interior
Department of Justice Legal
Positions & Internships
Department of Justice Opportunities
for Lateral Attorneys
Department of State, search for foreign service specialist
and officer positions, civil service opportuniteis, and student
programs
Department of Labor
Department
of Transportation Honors Program
Department of Veterans Affairs
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ; EPA Chicago Jobs & Externships
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Election Commission
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Home Loan Bank System
Federal Jobs Digest
FedJobs (accessible only through a computer in the career services
office)
Federal Maritime Commission
Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service
Federal Trade Commission
Fed Law
Fedworld
First Gov
General Accounting Office
General
Services Administration
Government Honors & Internship Handbook,(password protected,
e-mail kentcso@kentlaw.edu
for password)
GovtJobs
Hillzoo
House of Representatives, U.S.
Internal Revenue Service
Judge Advocate General
Corps - Airforce
Judge Advocate General
Corps - Army
Judge Advocate General Corps
- Marine
Judge Advocate General
Corps - Navy
Library of Congress
National Labor
Relations Board
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Office of Personnel Management
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Postal Rate Commission
Postal Service, U.S.
Presidential Management Fellow
Program
RCJobs (Your Capital Job Source)
Secret Service
Securities and Exchange Commission
Senate, U.S.
Seventh Circuit Court of
Appeals, U.S.
Small Business Administration
Social Security Administration
Supreme Court, U.S.
Tax Court, U.S.
United States Information
Agency
White House
The
White House (links to Federal government agencies and commissions)
ILLINOIS, STATE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT
SITES
Attorney Registration and Disciplinary
Commission of the Supreme Court of IL
Chicago Housing Authority
Chicago Transit Authority
City of Chicago
Board of Ethics
City of Chicago
Commission on Human Relations
City of Chicago Department
of Law
Cook County Clerk
of the Circuit Court
Cook
County Law Office of the Public Defender
Cook County Office of
the Public Guardian
Cook County State's Attorney
Office
Illinois Attorney General's
Office
Illinois Department
of Children and Family Services
Illinois Department of Human
Rights
Illinois Department of Humans
Services
Illinois Department of Natural
Resources
Illinois Department of
Nuclear Safety
Illinois Department of Public
Aid
Illinois Environmental Protection
Agency
Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy
Commission
Illinois Worker's Compensation Commission
Illinois Office of
the State Appellate Defender
Illinois Office of
the State's Attorney Appellate Prosecutor
Illinois Links
Illinois Secretary
of State
Illinois Legislative
Reference Bureau
Metropolitan Water Reclamation
District of Greater Chicago
National Conference
of State Legislatures
State & Local
Government on the Net
VOLUNTEER RESOURCES
American
Bar Association
Impact On Line
NPO.net - Chicago
area volunteer opportunities
Nonprofit
Career Network
Public
Interest Resource Center (PIRC), Chicago-Kent student organization
FELLOWSHIP RESOURCES
Public Service Law Network
(PSLAWNET),Click on the "Fellowship Corner"
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