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North Dakota ACLU Seeks Community Organizer

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Career Opportunity
COMMUNITY ORGANIZER [SD-04]
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
National Office, Fargo, ND

The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU), founded in 1920, is a nationwide, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, with more than 500,000 members and is dedicated to the principles of liberty and equality embodied in the U.S. Constitution. The ACLU of South Dakota a National Chapter Office of the ACLU is seeking applications for the full-time position ofCommunity Organizer in its newly created National Office in Fargo, North Dakota.

OVERVIEW

The ACLU of South Dakota is a national chapter of the ACLU and conducts state based advocacy through public education, litigation and lobbying. The ACLU South Dakota is the newest national chapter of the ACLU and it is quickly growing with the recent addition of the National Office in Fargo, ND. They both handle issues regarding reproductive freedom, voting rights, the rights of lesbian, bisexual and transgender as well as many other civil liberties issues.

The office seeks an experienced professional to serve as a Community Organizer in North Dakota at the newly created office in Fargo, ND, the Community Organizer will report to the Executive Director of the ACLU of South Dakota. He/she will work closely with the Advocacy Director, Communications Director, staff members and with other offices from the national ACLU.

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NARF Summer 2012 Law Clerk Positions

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

2012 NARF Law Clerk Advert

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Staff Attorney Announcement

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Staff Attorney
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, N.D.

Fort Yates, ND. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Legal Department is accepting applications for Staff Attorney(s) to work under the supervision of the In-house Attorney to provide legal services and representation to the tribal government and various tribal departments, programs and entities.

Job qualifications for this job include excellent writing, research, oral advocacy, analytical and problem solving, and organizational skills; a strong academic record; the willingness and ability to handle a varied caseload and manage multiple projects simultaneously; and the willingness and ability to work with tribal, federal, state, and local leaders and agencies on a wide variety of legal issues.

Successful applicants must possess a J.D. degree and be licensed, or be able to be licensed, to practice law in North Dakota or South Dakota. Licensure in both states is preferred, but not required.

Relevant experience in Indian law matters is preferred.

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Two Notices for Job Opportunities in Keepseagle Claims Settlement

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

From Sarah Vogel re: the Keepseagle Indian farmer settlement:

We have two types of income opportunities for attorneys, and one type of opportunity for claims consultants, who need not be attorneys.

The first notice is for lawyers in private practice who would work with Keepseagle claimants who want to pursue a “Track B” claim for an 8% contingency fee.  As you can see, my email is given as a principal point of contact for these attorneys.

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The second notice deals with the opportunity for full time temporary attorneys and full time temporary claims consultants to work on Track A cases.  These individuals would be hired by Excelerate, which is an employment agency for attorneys that is working with class counsel.   These jobs would begin with training in late June and end in late December.  There is a special email for Keepseagle employment at the Excelerate agency.

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Nordhaus Job Posting

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The Nordhaus Law Firm seeks immediate applications to fill an associate attorney position in the Washington, D.C. office by July 1. Please post or circulate to folks who may be interested in applying.  The position description is linked below.

http://www.nordhauslaw.com/CM/Custom/TOCCareer.asp

Navajo Nation Supreme Court Summer Clerkship Announcement

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The Navajo Nation Supreme Court is seeking summer law clerks for summer 2008.  The Navajo Nation Supreme Court is a full-time court of last resort for the largest Indian tribe in the United States.  Its offices are located in Window Rock, Arizona, twenty-six miles north of Gallup, New Mexico.  Summer law clerks assist the justices of the Supreme Court in researching cases filed before the Court.  

            There are two paid positions, and, depending on space, at least one unpaid position for which law school credit can be earned.  Housing in the Window Rock area is provided for all positions.  The Navajo Nation Supreme Court adheres to the Navajo Preference in Employment Act in hiring law clerks.

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ACS Offers Paid, One-Year Law Fellowship

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The American Constitution Society (ACS), one of the nation’s leading progressive legal organizations, seeks a talented, versatile and energetic recent law school graduate to serve as a Law Fellow. The Fellow will serve as part of ACS’s Programs staff, which is led by a group of experienced attorneys who coordinate and facilitate ACS’s rapidly expanding output of innovative, highly relevant legal and public policy work. The Fellow will work with existing Programs staff to assist in coordinating the work of ACS’s Constitution in the 21st Century project, an ambitious multi-year effort to engage scholars, practitioners, public officials and law students in the articulation and dissemination of a progressive vision of the Constitution, law and public policy.

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More Impacts of Prop. 2 — Financial Aid

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

As the news about the 2007-2008 academic year comes out, we will be following the impact of Prop. 2 on minority students and communities in Michigan, with an emphasis on American Indian students.

Details from the Detroit News: “A record number of new freshmen flocked to Michigan public universities this fall, but some scholarship opportunities for the 40,674 students have dried up in light of Proposal 2.

“The constitutional amendment passed by voters last November not only banned preferences based on race and gender in public university admissions, but also shut down financial aid programs geared toward those targeted groups.

“Scholarships for women in engineering, single mothers, Hispanic scholars and high-achieving black students are among the programs that have been eliminated or altered at some of the state’s 15 public universities. In general, university leaders said they didn’t take away scholarships they promised students before Proposal 2 took effect Dec. 23, but the challenge has been how to help incoming classes without violating the law.”

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“The Alumni Association of the University of Michigan decided this fall to establish race- and gender-based scholarships after assurances from lawyers that doing so wouldn’t violate the law, leaders said.

“The board set aside $650,000 in seed money and anticipates awarding the first scholarships for incoming students in 2008.

“We wanted to be able to make it possible for alumni and others who want to provide support to do so,” said alumni association president Steve Grafton. “They can’t do that with the university and we can provide that opportunity for them.

“And we are really interested in helping to maintain and build the diversity at the university. This is a recruiting tool that will help the university recruit the very brightest students of color, women in engineering and men in nursing,” he said.

“Much of the debate over Proposal 2 has focused on the University of Michigan, the only state university that admittedly used affirmative action in undergraduate admissions. But the impact of the new constitutional amendment can be felt around the state, as scholarships for students based, in part, on race, gender or ethnicity were not uncommon.

“Universities initiated reviews of all of their scholarship programs. Central Michigan University found four scholarships that involved preferences. CMU didn’t change two slated for Native Americans because they believe those scholarships are based on sovereignty status, not on race.“

Michigan Affirmative Action Symposium

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The Michigan Journal of Race & Law is hosting a symposium on affirmative action in Michigan after Prop. 2.

The symposium announcement is here.

For materials on Prop. 2 and its potential impact on American Indian students, please go here and here. For a pdf copy of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission report on Prop. 2, go here. Attachment no. 4 of the report concerns the impact of Prop. 2 on American Indian tuition waiver and is here.

From the symposium announcement….

From Proposition 209 to Proposal 2:
Examining the Effects of Anti-Affirmative Action Voter Initiatives

The diversity of perspectives that is cherished and celebrated by the Michigan Journal of Race & Law and the University of Michigan community is threatened with the passage of ballot initiatives like Michigan’s Proposal 2, which bans the use of race and gender in school admissions. These issues are both timely and critically important in a society that is becoming increasingly segregated by race and ethnicity, both residentially and socially. With the recent passing of Proposal 2 as well as the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding the use of race in public schools, we believe it is crucial to maintain an open and positive dialogue regarding race and education. To that end, our Symposium endeavors to address the variety of policy and legal questions arising out of the anti-affirmative action movement. Our Symposium will explore a broad range of issues including: the current effects of Proposition 209 in California and the potential effects of Proposal 2 on public university education and leadership within the state of Michigan, potential legal alternatives to affirmative action, and existing and emerging efforts to remedy K-12 educational disparities. Most notably, we present this symposium with the hope of preserving the University of Michigan’s longstanding commitment to diversity and as an answer to University of Michigan President Coleman’s request to “Show others what a U-M education looks like”.