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Miller Nash LLP is dedicated to providing a wide range of high-quality legal services and comprehensive legal advice to businesses throughout the Pacific Northwest. We believe that these goals will be significantly aided by the promotion of diversity both within the firm itself and within the Pacific Northwest legal and business communities. As a result, Miller Nash has created a program to provide for two $7,500 Diversity Fellowships to be awarded to first- and second-year law students on an annual basis. Each Fellowship recipient will also receive a paid summer clerk position at one of Miller Nash's offices in Portland, Oregon, Vancouver, Washington, or Seattle, Washington (*availability of summer clerk positions in our individual offices may vary from year to year). Each recipient may receive a Miller Nash Diversity Fellowship only once.
APPLICANT CRITERIA:
- Applicant must be a first- or second-year law student in good standing at an ABA-accredited law school.
- Applicant must intend to work, live, and practice law in the Pacific Northwest.
- Applicant must be willing and able to fill a summer clerk position at Miller Nash for at least 12 weeks. Upon request, 1L applicants must also be willing to spend the first four weeks of their 2L summer at Miller Nash.
- Applicant must demonstrate academic excellence, interpersonal skills, leadership qualities, contributions to diversity, and meaningful contributions to the community.
APPLICANTS MUST SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING:
(1) an Application for Diversity Fellowship, (2) a 2- to 4-page statement addressing the criteria listed in the Application, (3) a résumé, (4) a law school transcript (unofficial is acceptable), or an undergraduate transcript from first-year students who have not yet completed a full term of law school, (5) a list of three academic or professional references, and (6) a 5- to 10-page legal writing sample.
Please submit all application materials together to:
Michelle Baird-Johnson, Director of Recruiting & Professional Development
Miller Nash LLP
3400 U.S. Bancorp Tower
111 S.W. Fifth Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97204
Questions: michelle.baird-johnson@millernash.com
*FOR SUMMER 2010: Positions available only in our Portland office.
2L Application Postmark Deadline: September 24, 2009
1L Application Postmark Deadline: January 20, 2010
(1Ls may apply after December 1)
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