Two Great Events Coming Up!

PLEASE JOIN US FOR TWO OUTSTANDING EVENTS!

Social Media and Finding Your Niche

Come listen to Michelle Olsen talk about her career transition
from appellate lawyer at Jones Day
to columnist for the National Law Journal and
publisher of the Appellate Daily blog and Twitter feed.

--lunch provided--

RSVP to audreylambert8@gmail.com

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Rex Lee & Shawn Bentley Awards Lunch

Join
Utah Supreme Court Justice Thomas Lee
and
Federal Circuit Judge Sharon Prost
in recognizing the
2012 Rex Lee Award and Shawn Bentley Award Recipients

Purchase Tickets or Sponsor Here

See "Upcoming Events" for Additional Details.

JRCLS Annual Fireside

JRCLS Annual Fireside

What: Annual JRCLS dinner and fireside

When: Friday, January 27th at 6:30 p.m. (8pm broadcast to follow dinner)
Where: Mount Vernon Stake Center, 6219 Villa Street, Alexandria, VA 22310 (corner of S. Van Dorn and Franconia Rd.)
Who: Open to all attorneys, law students and their guests

There is no charge for this event.  Please RSVP by Jan 25th to events@jrclsdc.org

2011 International Religious Liberty Award Dinner

1 August 2011 - Lunch at Arent Fox at noon with Bill Atkin, Associate General Counsel for the LDS Church

1 August 2011 - Lunch at Arent Fox at noon with Bill Atkin, Associate General Counsel for the LDS Church

Please join the law society for lunch at our summer event on Monday, August 1st at Arent Fox 1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. at noon. We will hear from Bill Atkin, Associate General Counsel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the subject "Freeing the Voice of Truth: A Sacred Mission of LDS Attorneys and Law Students."  Bill Atkin is generally responsible for the delivery of legal services in connection with the international activities of the church. We are excited he is able to come from Salt Lake and speak to us about religious liberty.

RSVPs have closed for this event.  We'll see you there!


Lunch is on the 7th floor at Arent Fox.



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28 July 2011 - 3rd Annual Interviewing Workshop

Please join us on Thursday July 28, 2011 from 6 to 8pm for the 3rd Annual Legal Employment in DC Symposium.  This event features speakers, mock interviews, resume review, and a light supper.  Please take the following survey to help us plan better for this event:  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5NHSXSS

We are still looking for several more interviewers.  Please consider assisting us if you are able.

The address for this event is the new LDS chapel in

745 23rd Street South, Arlington, VA 22200
(near Crystal City Metro station on the Blue Line)

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We've held two very successful events and hope to continue that trend. Hope to see you there. There will be more information to follow.


Sincerely,

Stacy Cheney
J. Reuben Clark Law Society

Job: Benteler In-house Counsel

One of our clients, Benteler group (www.benteler.com), headquartered in Germany and Austria, seeks an in-house lawyer to be based in Detroit/Auburn Hill. Benteler is a family owned business with more than 25,000 employees and approx. EUR 6bn revenues globally. Benteler is mainly active in the automotive business, but also steel/tube and distribution.

The candidate would be the only local lawyer and deal with all areas of law, mainly corporate, commercial, regulatory, product liability, IP. The candidate should have 4-5 years work experience and may be willing to work for a few weeks or months in the Germany (Paderborn) and Austria (Salzburg) at the beginning of the employment. It would certainly be helpful to speak German, but it is not a "must".

Interested people can contact the general counsel, Dr. Ilkin Karakaya (Ilkin.Karakaya@benteler.de).

Job: International Finance Advocate in SF or DC

Amazon Watch is hiring an International Finance Advocate to lead our work on monitoring, engaging and challenging international financial institutions (IFI), such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES). These banks and others are significantly funding destructive development mega-projects, like the Belo Monte Dam Complex, throughout the Amazon Basin.

We're looking for a dynamic advocate with campaign and/or policy experience to lead this work in collaboration with our allies on the ground, and the AW campaigns and communications teams. Due to the nature of the work, we need someone with great communication skills in both Portugese and Spanish and someone who's willing to travel frequently. The position could be in SF or DC.

If interested, check out the job announcement here:
 
http://amazonwatch.org/about/join-our-team/international-finance-advocate