All job fairs are coordinated through the Career Services Office. These programs are advertised to students through 12Twenty and registration deadlines for such programs must be respected. For more information, see the details below and contact Career Services with questions.

Job Fairs

Veterans’ Legal Career Fair: This career fair will match employers with experienced lawyers who have served in the U.S. military or are transitioning out of U.S. military service. The career fair will arrange one-on-one interviews and informational sessions for veterans (including active-duty JAG Corps members and reservists) seeking positions as lawyers, including with corporate legal departments, law firms, other private sector employers, and government agencies. Spouses of active members and veterans are also eligible to participate.

Bay Area Diversity Career Fair: The Bay Area Diversity Career Fair brings together prominent law firms and government legal departments in the San Francisco Bay Area with highly qualified diverse rising second-year law students. Participating students come from distinguished law schools from around the nation to interview for coveted positions in summer associate programs.

Boston Lawyers Group Job Fair: The BLG Job Fair provides member organizations with the opportunity to select and interview summer associate positions from a nationwide pool of law students. Participating students must be law school students of color interested in working in Boston and/or rising 2Ls that can demonstrate a commitment to advancing DEIB in the Boston legal community.

Cook County Bar Association Minority Student Law Fair: This event is open to current 1Ls, rising 2Ls, and rising 3Ls. Participating students must be from fully accredited law schools that are ranked among the top 30 as determined by U.S. News and World Report, from law schools at historically black colleges and universities, from law schools located in the Midwest as defined by the National Association for Law Placement, or the student must be a fellow or associate of the Council on Legal Educational Opportunity.

Delaware Minority Job Fair for Second and Third-year Law Students: The Delaware Diversity Job Fair Committee of the Delaware State Bar Association invites you to apply to participate in the virtual Annual Delaware Diversity Job Fair (DDJF). The DDJF is an invitation-only event limited to rising 2L/3LED and rising 3L/4LED students interested in summer or full-time employment opportunities with law firms, government, public sector, and public interest employers in Delaware.

LGBTQ+ Bar Association Annual Lavender Law Fair: The National LGBTQ+ Bar Associations annual Lavender Law Career Fair is designed to achieve a sense of community and inclusion for LGBTQ+ candidates within the legal professions recruiting efforts. By participating in this career fair, candidates will talk directly to LGBTQ+-friendly recruiters from law firms, government agencies, LGBTQ+ rights groups, and corporate legal departments. This program is designed to provide students with a safe, confidential space where they can ask questions about job search skills, being out on your resume, in interviews and in the workplace, and other related issues.

Indianapolis Bar Association Job Fair: Are you passionate about starting your career in a Midwestern city that has both cosmopolitan style and the ease of making connections like a small-town? The IndyBar Clerkship Job Fair seeks to provide opportunities to law students, particularly those from low-income, first-generation law and minority groups. The event is open to all law school students (1L, 2L, 3L, full-time and part-time) and post-graduate early career attorneys. Employees will be hiring clerks, interns, and entry-level associates.

National Black Prosecutors Association Annual Conference and Job Fair: The goal of the National Black Prosecutors Associations Job Fair is to promote diversity in prosecutors’ offices by providing a forum where law students, recent law graduates, and experienced attorneys from across the nation can meet and interview with prospective prosecutorial employers at the local, state, and federal levels.

Minnesota Minority Recruitment Conference: [On hold for the 2025 year]. The Minnesota Minority Recruitment Conference (MMRC) is designed to connect legal employers in the Twin Cities metro area with a diverse pool of 2L and 3L student candidates from around the country. Employers participating in the interviews will include small, medium, and large firms; corporate law departments; and public interest, nonprofit, and government entities. Anyone can participate in MMRC and there is no prohibition based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and other characteristics.

Heartland Diversity Legal Job Fair: The Annual Heartland Diversity Legal Job Fair will be held in Kansas City, Missouri. Students who are interested in becoming part of Kansas City’s dynamic legal community should strongly consider attending this event. All 2L and 3L law students and recent law grads who consider themselves diverse are invited to participate regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or veteran status.

Additional Career Fairs