The School of Law assists students in seeking employment through its Career Services Office. The Career Services Office offers career planning and placement services to all students and alumni. Because each of the constituencies presents unique credentials, experiences, and geographic and practice preferences, one-on-one meetings between the Career Services staff and students best facilitate assessing options, refining goals, and developing job search strategies.

 Career planning and placement services include workshops and seminars on resume preparation, interviewing techniques and job search strategies, as well as an on-campus interview program. Prior to the beginning of each semester, the Career Services Office invites employers from across the country to interview students for both part-time and full-time summer and permanent positions. These employers include small, medium and large law firms, corporations, state and federal government agencies, public interest organizations, judges, district attorneys, public defenders and military judge advocate general's corps. Employers who are unable to visit our campus are invited to request resumes from students and to interview off-campus as part of our resume collection program. In addition, part-time and full-time summer, temporary and permanent job announcements are posted to the students.

The School of Law does not make the services of its Office of Career Services available to employers who discriminate in their selection of employees on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age or handicap. Although the United States Military discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation, the School of Law makes its Career Services Office available to these recruiters because of the loss of federal funds that would otherwise be imposed on schools that have a policy or practice of denying access to military recruiters pursuant to the Solomon Amendment.

  Each year, our students have the opportunity to participate in a number of job fairs. The Southeastern Minority Job Fair, held in Atlanta, Georgia, affords students the opportunity to interview with approximately 120 employers from across the country. The Equal Justice Works Job Fair, held annually in Washington, D.C., provides an opportunity to interview with approximately 75 public interest employers from across the country. Another popular job fair in which students participate is the North Carolina Small Employer Job Fair, held each year in a western and eastern location in the state. Additional job fairs to which students are invited include, the Dupont Minority Job Fair, the Delaware Minority Job Fair, the Cook County Bar Association Minority Job Fair, and the CyberLaw Recruitment Conference.

  The School of Law participates in two special placement programs. The North Carolina State Bar Plan for Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts (IOLTA) sponsors summer internships for students to work with a public interest organization in North Carolina. During these internships, students work with persons who are unable to afford legal counsel. This program helps to lay the foundation for a commitment to public service. The other special placement program is the North Carolina Bar Association's Minorities in the Profession Committee Minority Summer Law Clerkship Program. This program seeks to enhance the opportunities for minorities to obtain summer clerkships with major law firms in the state.