Panel Information

Date/Times/Location

Friday, September 30, 2011, 3:00 - 4:00 (for days students) & 4:30 - 5:30 (for evening students), 1st floor Function Room, Sargent Hall.

There will be refreshments and an opportunity to mingle and ask question in between the sessions, from 4:00 - 4:30.

Panelists

Carmen Ortiz, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts

Mary Beth Heffernan, Secretary of the Mass. Department of Public Safety and Security

Gerry Leone, Middlesex County District Attorney

Susan Prosnitz, Senior Advisor, Transportation Safety Administration (and former Executive Director of Suffolk’s Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service)

Moderator

Ann McGonigle Santos, Associate Professor of Legal Writing, Suffolk University Law School

Alumni & Faculty Mentors

Many Suffolk Law alumni work in government and public interest and are happy to speak with current law students. 

For more information about Alumni Mentors, contact Diane Frankel Schoenfeld, Director of Alumni Relations, Suffolk University Law School at 617.305.1904 or diane.schoenfeld@suffolk.edu

To speak to a faculty member about working in the government and public interest sectors, contact Ilene Seidman, Associate Dean, Clinical Professor of Law and Associate Director of Clinical Programs, iseidman@suffolk.edu or Mia Friedman, Esq., Director of Public Interest & Pro Bono Programs, mfriedman@suffolk.edu

Rappaport Center for Law & Public Service

The Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service at Suffolk University Law School fosters innovative thinking on law and public policy and promotes emerging leaders who are deeply committed to public service and pro bono work. For more information about public service and pro bono opportunities, contact Mia B. Friedman, Esq., Director of Public Interest & Pro Bono Programs, mfriedman@suffolk.edu.

Students interested in public service should go here and are encouraged to check out the Government Resources Guide.

For information about the Rappaport Fellowship Program in Law and Public Policy, which provides students with the chance to work with top public policymakers on issues that affect residents of Greater Boston and Massachusetts, go here.

To find out more about the Drinan Fellowship, which allows students to do summer work in criminal law in the public sector, go here.

Fo information about the McLaughlin Fellowship, which also allows students to do summer work in criminal law in the public sector, go here.

Students working in unpaid legal positions in government can get pro bono credit for their work. For more information about Suffolk's pro bono program, go here.

Take a look at this list of courses that students interested in law and public policy should consider taking.

Career Development

To get oriented in your job search, please link to the CDO’s webpage.

For a comprehensive list of Federal Government job search sites, resources and publications, view the Federal Government/Public Policy Resources Handout.  This important handout includes access to PSLawNet (the searchable database of government jobs, employers and resources), the University of Arizona Law School’s database of federal and state government offices, application deadlines and requirements, and much more.

Library Resources

General

Moakley Law Library, Research Guides (Including Civil Rights & Liberties; Criminal Defense; Criminal Prosecution; Environmental Law; Familty Law; Housing, Immigration and Mental Health Law). For a complete list of research guides, go here.

Tips for Landing the Job of Your Dreams

Top Ten Free & Subscription Legal Research Sites
Lawyering Bibliography

A few recent law review articles:

Tyler Grove, Are All Prosecutorial Activities “Inherently Governmental”?: Applying State Safeguards for Victim-Retained Private Prosecutions to Outsourced Prosecutions, 40 Pub. Cont. L.J. 991 (2011).

Stacy Caplow and Lissa Griffin, Changes to the Culture of Adversarialness: Endorsing Candor, Cooperation and Civility in Relationships Between Prosecutors and Defense Counsel, 38 Hastings Const. L.Q. 845 (2011).

Bruce A. Green, Developing Standards of Conduct for Prosecutors and Criminal Defense Lawyers, 62 Hastings L.J. 1093, 1093 (2011).

Peggy Love, Ethics and Professional Conduct for Federal Government Attorneys, 25-WTR Nat. Resources & Env't 40 (2011).

To access these and many more law reviews articles search Westlaw, Lexis or HeinOnline

Contact Information

If you have any questions at all or need research assistance, contact a Moakley Law Library reference librarian: 617-573-8516 or lawref@suffolk.edu

Practice Materials

In addition to the table below, take a look at the Law Library's Subscription Databases to access the MLCE library, the Social Law Library Database and many other resources.

Guides

Careers in administrative law & regulatory practice / James T. O'Reilly, editor
Publisher Chicago, Ill. : American Bar Association, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, c2010.

KF299.A32 C37 2010 (LAW TREATISES FL 5)

Guide to America's federal jobs : a complete directory of U.S. government career opportunities / Karol Taylor and Janet M. Ruck
Publisher Indianapolis, IN : JIST Works, c2009. JK692 .G85 2009 (Career Development Office)

Careers in criminal law / Ellen Brotman, editor Publisher Washington, DC : American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section, c2010.

KF299.C7 C37 2010 (LAW TREATISES FL 5)

Conferences & Continuing Legal Education

Suffolk University Law School's Advanced Legal Studies (ALS) Center for CLE & Academic Conferences seeks to create in-depth continuing legal education for the legal community by utilizing the strengths and resources of the law school and the expertise of the bench and the bar. Their programs are built around members of the Suffolk faculty and experienced lawyers and judges. By carefully crafting the curriculum for each program, preparing solid course materials, and employing vigorous and open discussion methods, these programs provide attendees with challenging and helpful educational opportunities.

All current Suffolk University Law School students can register for ALS Conferences, for FREE. To review their current calendar of events or to get more information about ALS and the conferences they organize as well as a list of the very helpful practice oriented publications they publish, go here.

For more information about Suffolk's Advanced Legal Studies Center, contact Carole Wagan, Esq., Director, Center for Advanced Legal Studies, cwagan@suffolk.edu or (617) 305-1652.

LEAPP Journals

[Ann & Julie: info about the journals? We'll add a link here to the Campus Cruiser page where they'll be submitting their reflections.]

Student Survey

Please take a few moments and complete this brief survey (link to survey here -- we could creat a brief survey via survey monkey in time for the Sept 30th panel)