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LGBT Rights Law: A Career Guide

With the end of the summer at OPIA comes an exciting moment: publication time! In preparation for the students’ arrival in September, OPIA staff have spent the summer planning the year’s events and getting our job search guides ready, in addition to running workshops to help keep advising sessions as useful as possible. In the next few weeks, we have several new specialty guides that will become available both at our office and on our website, as well as a new supplement to our main job search guide, Serving the Public.

To offer a taste of these new offerings, here is a sample narrative from the new LGBT Rights Law Career Guide, which is now available (.pdf):
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August 16th, 2007 Posted by opia | Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Law and a Disorder

A recent Boston Globe article explores the high frequency of depression among lawyers–higher than in any other profession, and 3.6 times the norm, according to a 1990 Johns Hopkins University study. The story focuses on Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, a group that provides confidential counseling and referrals for law students, lawyers, and judges in Massachusetts.

August 16th, 2007 Posted by opia | News | 1 Comment

A Year in Public Service at the Record

As we prepare for the arrival of students in a few weeks, we have also been looking back on the past year. In perusing the archives of the Record, we found a number of stories that highlight a year of public service at HLS. A selection of the Record’s public interest stories are linked below. Read more »

August 16th, 2007 Posted by opia | Alumni, Clerkships, Events, Uncategorized | No Comments

   

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