Welcome to PSLawNet’s central outlet for public interest career resources.  These resources are organized in five subsections:  

1. General Public Interest Resources (which include materials on a wide array of public interest career opportunities).
2. Government Service Resources
3. International Public Interest Resources
4. Postgraduate Fellowship Resources
5. Canadian Resources (for Canadian PSLawNet users and those interested in public service opportunities in Canada).

PSLawNet thanks the many law schools that have graciously donated materials to the Public Service Career Library.

General Public Interest Resources

• PSLawNet's Public Interest Job Search Fundamentals
• Yale Law School Public Service Careers Guide (published and updated annually by the Yale Law School Career Development Office) - this guide offers a terrific overview of how to launch a public interest career.
• University of Virginia Public Service Job Search Resource Guide - this guide provides information about how to find a public interest law job, including where to find the employers, resume and interview tips, how to finance a public interest job, how to apply to public interest employers, and lists sample application materials.
• Harvard Law School Public Interest Specialty Guides – HLS publishes several guidebooks focusing on specific public interest practice areas and settings, including:
  • Conservative Public Interest Law
  • GLBT Rights
  • Immigration and Refugee Advocacy
  • Civil Legal Services
  • Public Defender Careers
  • More practice area-specific guides are freely available in PDF form at the Harvard Office of Public Interest Advising site.  You may also find background information on the types of work attorneys are likely to encounter in a number of public interest practice settings, including work with charitable foundations, on political campaigns, and many other settings.
• Yale Law School Environmental Law Practice Guide
• Public Interest and Plaintiff's Law Firm Guide - produced by Columbia Law School and Harvard Law School, this guide provides an overview of public interest career opportunities in for-profit law firms, including advice on how to land jobs. 
• Internship Opportunities in Capital Defense Offices - This webpage is maintained by the Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law and includes current internship opportunities with public defender and capital defense (death penalty defense) programs.
• How to Make the Most of Your Summer Job - a Harvard Law School publication that is quite useful to law students beginning internships and summer public interest work experiences.
• Yale Guide to Firm-Sponsored Split Public Interest Summers - Several law firms have instituted programs that enable law students to work part of the summer with the firm, and part of the summer with a public interest organization, with the firm paying the students’ salaries for the entire summer. These generous plans allow law students to explore two types of legal practice and demonstrate the firms’ strong commitment to pro bono work.

Government Service

• PSLawNet's Resources for Government Careers
• NALP’s Federal Legal Employment Opportunities Guide - this annually-updated publication, produced by NALP, the Partnership for Public Service, and the ABA, offers tips for seeking federal attorney positions, definitions of terms used in the employment application process, descriptions of dozens of federal offices that employ attorneys, and much more.
• 2008-09 Guide to Public Sector Legal Job Applications - this Georgetown University Law Center publication includes tips for constructing resumes and other application materials.
• Working on Capitol Hill - Yale Law School's guidebook breaks down the types of employment opportunities available on The Hill and includes personal narratives from Hill employees.
• July 2009 Report on Federal Student Loan Repayment Programs – this report by the Office of Personnel Management outlines executive branch agency use of loan repayment programs in recruitment and retention efforts.
• Guide to Criminal Prosecution Careers - a Yale Law School Publication providing information on both summer and permanent hiring processes in U.S. Attorney's and local prosecutors' offices.  (For more information on careers in criminal justice, see our Prosecution/Public Defense Career Resource Page.)

International Public Interest Law

• PSLawNet's International Resources
• Finding and Funding International Public Interest Opportunities - This online guide provides useful background info and recommendations for students/attorneys embarking on international public interest careers.  It is annually updated by NALP members at the Universities of Arizona and Georgia, and at the William & Mary School of Law.
• Intergovernmental Organizations - Harvard Law School provides helpful background information about Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), explaining types of IGOs, types of legal issues, and more.
• Finding Employment Opportunities with International Governmental Organizations (IGOs) and the United Nations - Pick up tips on how to pursue a broad array of legal careers on the international stage.  Created for NALP by the New York University's Public Interest Law Center.
• Tips for Students Seeking International Internships - A concise, valuable tip sheet drafted by an international human rights attorney at New York University's Public Interest Law Center.
• Postgraduate International Fellowships Guide - A listing of international fellowship opportunities around the globe, produced by Columbia Law School's Center for Public Interest Law.
• Yale Law School Guide to International Public Interest Careers - Provides background-level and detailed information for those pursuing public interest careers. 

Postgraduate Fellowship Resources

• PSLawNet's Postgraduate Fellowships - Information & Resources
• Guide to Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowships - Produced annually by Yale Law School, this guide is ideal for law students who are  beginning to explore postgraduate fellowships as a career option.
• The PSLawNet Opportunities Database contains between 200-300 fellowship listings, updated annually to provide current application deadlines and job descriptions.  If you are a registered PSLawNet user, log in on the homepage; or, register here.  PSLawNet's Fellowship Application Deadline Calendar organizes fellowships by application deadline. 
• The NALP/PSLawNet Comprehensive Fellowships Guide is an annually-produced print compendium of fellowship listings in the PSLawNet database.  It is purchased by law school career services and public interest advising offices.  Check with your school to see if they have it.
• Postgraduate International Fellowships Guide - A listing of international fellowship opportunities around the globe, produced by Columbia Law School's Center for Public Interest Law.

Canadian User Resources

• PSLawNet's Resources for Canadian Employers & Users
• Public Interest Articling: A Guide for Law Graduates Seeking to Create Non-Traditional Articling Experiences - This guide, produced by the Law Union of Ontario and made available by the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, provides information for those seeking public interest articling opportunities.
• Guide to Careers in Public Interest Law - The University of Toronto Faculty of Law has made available excerpts from its 2006 Guide to Careers in Public Interest Law for interested Canadian law students.
• Social Justice Careers Memo - Produced by the Career Services Office at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, the memo combines over 6 years of experience and accumulated knowledge to provide a comprehensive resource for Canadian law students interested in careers in Social Justice.