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How Can We Help You? Alumni Career Services

If you are a graduate of Columbia Law School seeking advice on your career, you have access to services of the Center for Public Interest Law, the Career Services Office , the Judicial Clerkship Program , and the Law Teaching Program.

If you are currently employed in the private or public sector and are seeking a position in a public interest organization, NGO, federal non-regulatory agency, state or local government, please contact Ellen Chapnick, Dean of Social Justice Program.  To make an appointment to see Dean Chapnick,  contact Jane Cooper (jane.cooper@law.columbia.edu, 212-854-8484).

If you have already graduated from Columbia Law School, and are seeking assistance applying for a judicial clerkship, please contact Ilene Strauss, Director of Clerkships at Ilene.strauss@law.columbia.edu, 212-854-3255.

Click here to access the job postings from the Career Services Office.

To receive a weekly email from the Center for Public Interest Law listing graduate and/or fellowship opportunities, please email publicinterest@law.columbia.edu or call the Center at 212-854-6158.

To find information on Columbia’s Loan Repayment Forgiveness Program (LRAP), please see the description of the program at http://www.law.columbia.edu/current_student/financial_aid/LRAP
For more information on LRAP, contact the Financial Aid Office at 212-854-1245.

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How Can You Help Us?

Tell us where you are!  If you are currently working in the public sector, or in the private sector doing public interest or pro bono work, please email CPIL with your contact information and a short description of your work.  If you are willing to speak on a panel about your work, or be contacted by a law student interested in your field, please indicate as much in your email to Melissa Cardinali at mcardi@law.columbia or call 212-854-6158.

If you have an internship, fellowship or job opportunity for a Columbia Law student, please email Akua Akyea at aakyea@law.columbia.edu or call 212-854-3247.

If you have a pro bono project or assignment for which you would like the help of a Columbia Law student, please email probonoquestions@law.columbia.edu or call 212-854-3535.

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