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Position:   General Counsel Department: Office of Legal Affairs   Primary Job Function Summary: The overall responsibility for the University Counsel is to direct the University’s legal affairs and the day-to-day coordination of the office.  The University Counsel will be involved in litigation management, discovery and other pre-trial work, in close collaboration with the Illinois Attorney General’s office and other outside counsel.  The University Counsel will work closely with all members of the President’s Cabinet and senior administrators. In addition, this position will provide legal advice to the University Foundation and its Board.  The University Counsel reports to the President of the University.   Specific responsibilities for the University Counsel will include:   Advising on a broad range of matters including employment, student matters, contracts, labor law, collective bargaining, litigation, intellectual property, and privacy laws....

As the largest university-based local government training, advisory, and research organization in the United States, the   UNC -Chapel Hill School of Government offers up to 200 courses, webinars, and specialized conferences for more than 12,000 public officials each year. For nearly 90 years, the School of Government’s mission has been to improve the lives of North Carolinians through nonpartisan, engaged scholarship that helps public officials understand and improve state and local government. For more information about the School’s mission and history, visit https://www.sog.unc.edu/about/mission-and-history. The School of Government seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty member to work in the fields of (1) local government procurement and contracting law and (2) emergency management law. With respect to procurement and contracting law, responsibilities of this position will include teaching, advising, research, and publication regarding: (a) legal issues related to local...

As the largest university-based local government training, advisory, and research organization in the United States, the   UNC -Chapel Hill School of Government offers up to 200 courses, webinars, and specialized conferences for more than 12,000 public officials each year. For nearly 90 years, the School of Government’s mission has been to improve the lives of North Carolinians through nonpartisan, engaged scholarship that helps public officials understand and improve state and local government. For more information about the School’s mission and history, visit https://www.sog.unc.edu/about/mission-and-history. The School of Government seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty member as its principal advisor to city clerks and clerks to boards of county commissioners. The faculty member will assume primary responsibility for the School’s many clerk-related programs that provide clerks with credit towards certification or recertification. Responsibilities of this position will...

POSITION OBJECTIVE The assistant director will evaluate applications for admission and make decisions on the admissibility of candidates. An assistant director interprets and explains admissions decisions to students. Interprets and explains law school programs and policies paying special attention to the identification of appropriate exceptions to normal processes and procedures. An assistant director conducts evaluative interviews of prospective students, plans and executes recruitment travel based on analysis of data and builds relationships with pre-law advisors. This staff member conducts information sessions on campus and off, as well as, responds to questions from prospective students and admitted students on the phone and via email. This staff member represents all facets of law school education and student life at Case Western Reserve University School of Law to prospective students and pre-law advisors with friendliness, enthusiasm, patience and respect. All...

The SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW is seeking applications from qualified persons for a non-tenure track, full-time Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy position (PN# 00052163) in the International LL.M. Program to begin Fall 2021.  The appointment is initially for one-year, with reappointment planned after a successful first year. The position requires teaching five courses during the academic year. Two courses will be taught in the fall: three-credit Legal Research and Writing for LL.M.s and two-credit Perspectives of the American Legal System, a class limited to and required of all international LL.M. students. In the spring, the same two courses will be offered, plus an additional course for international LL.M.s will be developed in consultation with the Dean and faculty of the law school. This position will also provide mentoring to our international LL.M. students and may be asked to assist with recruitment of students for the programs by speaking to...

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for a lawyering skills Assistant Professor position beginning July 2021. This is a 10-month renewable contract, untenured position on the lawyering skills track with the potential for promotion depending on rank at hiring. Candidates will be considered for appointment at the level commensurate with law teaching experience.  We seek candidates with distinguished academic records, extensive practice experience in transactional work, and experience teaching in a law school setting. Successful candidates should have a strong commitment to the teaching of lawyering skills.  Key responsibilities will involve classroom teaching in our required upper-level transaction skills course; one-on-one student interaction, drafting and grading multiple student writing projects each semester, and devising and coordinating simulation exercises. It may periodically include some specialized doctrinal courses in transactional areas and...

Senior Lecturer - Penn Law Legal Practice Skills Program   Law School   Location: Philadelphia, PA       Penn Law is seeking faculty members to serve as Senior Lecturers in the Legal Practice Skills Program. Penn Law's innovative Legal Practice Skills Program offers practical training in the writing and communication skills today's lawyers need. The centerpiece of the program is a mandatory first-year course, which spans two semesters and carries six credits (four in the fall; two in the spring). While providing students with a solid foundation in legal research, analysis, and writing, Legal Practice Skills also introduces students to a range of other essential practice skills, including fact development, interviewing, negotiation, basic contract drafting, and informal oral and written communication. The course presents assignments as simulations to help students understand the context in which these skills are deployed in practice.   More broadly, the Legal...

Institution Information The University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law is an intimate, innovative law school, committed to developing students who enjoy challenging dialogue from the first moments of orientation, embrace practice-based learning, and stand ready to join the ranks of alumni who are global leaders in intellectual property, general practice, public interest and social justice, and commerce and technology. Our Legal Residency program allows students to work in their fields of interest for up to a full semester while receiving credit and our Daniel Webster Scholar program is the only practice-based bar exam alternative in the nation. Our faculty consists of practitioners experienced in their fields of interest. The small student/faculty ratio promotes collaboration and collegiality. Accredited by the American Bar Association, UNH Franklin Pierce is located in Concord, New Hampshire, home to the state’s legislature, state offices, as well as local,...