Employers
One of the key ways students at top-tier law schools get a job is through the school’s “on-campus interview” (OCI) program. At OCI, typically held in both the spring and fall semesters, prospective employers come on campus to interview for summer interns and new lawyers after graduation.
As of May 2009, more than 70 prospective employers—national and local private firms; local, state and federal government law offices; and public interest nonprofits—have committed to meeting with our students on campus. Since we only expect to enroll about 60 students in fall 2009, it looks like they will be in great demand.
Special thanks go to our “founding employers”—some of whom don’t normally participate in OCI at any law school—for believing in the UC Irvine School of Law vision and showing their support for the newest UC law school by agreeing to come meet our students in 2010.
Legal Employers Participating in On-Campus Interviews 2010
- Affordable Housing Advocates
- Aldrich & Bonnefin
- Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis
- Alliance for Children’s Rights
- Andrews & Thornton
- Arnold & Porter LLP
- Asian Pacific American Legal Center
- Bet Tzedek Legal Services
- Bezaire, Ledwitz & Associates, APC
- Bingham McCutchen LLP
- Bryan Cave LLP
- California Attorney General Land Law Section
- California Attorney General Environment Section
- California Attorney General Natural Resources Law Section
- California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.
- California Women’s Law Center
- Casa Cornelia Law Center
- Center for Health Care Rights
- Central American Resource Center/CARECEN Legal Services
- Central California Legal Services
- Child Care Law Center
- Collins, Collins, Muir & Stewart LLP
- Cox Castle & Nicholson
- Disability Rights Legal Center at Loyola Law School
- DLA Piper US LLP
- Dorsey & Whitney
- Elder Law & Advocacy
- Ernst & Young
- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
- Girardi & Keese
- HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance, Inc. (HALSA)
- Inland Empire Latino Lawyer’s Association (IELLA) Legal Aid Project
- Inland Counties Legal Services
- Inner City Law Center
- Irell & Manella LLP
- Jones Day
- Kilpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP
- Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
- Koenig Jacobsen LLP
- Latham & Watkins LLP
- Legal Aid Society of Orange County
- LAMBDA Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.
- Los Angeles County Public Defender
- Luce Forward
- Lynberg & Watkins
- Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
- Mental Health Advocacy Services
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
- Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCLoy
- Morrison Foerster LLP
- National Senior Citizens Law Center
- Nossaman
- O’Melveny & Myers LLP
- Palmieri, Tyler, Wiener, Wilheim & Waldron LLP
- Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
- Payne & Fears LLP
- Public Counsel
- Public Defender Orange County—Alternate Defenders
- Public Law Center
- Rutan & Tucker LLP
- San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program
- Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP
- Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
- Shook, Hardy & Bacon
- Sidley Austin LLP
- Snell & Wilmer LLP
- Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
- Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth
- Tenner Johnson
- United States Attorney’s Office–Los Angeles
- United States Attorney’s Office–Santa Ana
- Western Center on Law and Poverty
- WilmerHale
- Winthrop Couchot Professional Corporation
- The Yocca Law Firm LLP
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“We don’t usually participate in
on-campus interviews. We’re fortunate to get over 120 applications for two to three summer positions each year without visiting campuses. However, to support Dean Chemerinsky, and the students drawn to his vision for the new law school, we will participate in UC Irvine School of Law’s program!”
Syd Whalley
Executive Director
Western Center on Law & Poverty
“I was convinced
from my very first meetings with local attorneys and business leaders that something uniquely wonderful is happening at UC Irvine, and that everything in my career leads to this ideal union between the academic and professional communities. Our core volunteers made the difference in persuading the university, government officials and the bar that a new, very ambitious law school belongs here. And now they are providing the energy, expertise and financial resources to launch us into the top tier of American law schools. There is no more exciting prospect for me than this collaboration.”
Charles Cannon
Assistant Dean of Development and External Affairs
UC Irvine School of Law
“It’s extraordinarily exciting
to have a new, top–tier law school in our community focused on public service and access to justice – we’re truly looking forward to participating in its development and, ultimately, to working with its students and graduates!”
Mitch Kamin
President/CEO, Bet Tzedek Legal Services