Miscellaneous

Job Hunting with Court-O-Rama

By Anne Skove, Esq.

Still looking for that elusive job? Join the club!

We know times are tough. To assist in your search, we periodically post interesting want ads and help-wanted sections of interesting organizations. Here are a few:

• Council of State Governments: currently hiring in New York, DC, Bethesda, MD, and at its Lexington, KY, headquarters.


• NCJFCJ: seeking an attorney for its Family Violence Department in the DC office.


• NCSC: research associate plus several international positions.


• Texas Office of Court Administration/Judicial Council: seeks an attorney, associate judge, program specialist, collections specialist, and techies. Page includes links to the appellate courts' announcements.


• West Virginia Judicial System: seeks a circuit judge law clerk, probation officer, statistical analyst, and court reporter.


• Supreme Court of Virginia: hiring (in several locations) deputy clerks, magistrates (all levels), interpreters (due today), Court Improvement Program research analyst, tape librarian, and a magistrate training specialist.


• Oregon Judicial Department: legal counsel, analysts, techies, comptrollers, court administrators -- we hear Oregon is lovely.


• Oklahoma State Courts: where the wind comes rushing down the plain, they need IT folks and a business analyst.


• New Mexico Courts: admins, a CIO, fiscal services (note the trend in financial-related court jobs? When things get tough, hire a budget guy or gal!), HR, IT, paralegals, attorneys, building & grounds, probation officers (we expect anyone who ever taught high school may have a foot in the door), court clerks, counselors, law librarians, court reporters, pretrial services, background investigators, trainers, the list goes on and on!


• NCSL: join the most dangerous branch! See job openings at NCSL and in individual state legislatures. Current NCSL openings are limited to interns in the Denver area, but do stay tuned. Other postings (from outside NCSL, but listed here) include more IT, auditors, and fiscal analysts.


• Congressional Research Service: interesting stuff! Currently advertising for energy policy specialist, research manager in American Law, education policy specialist, quality assurance editor, and coordinator of public policy review. All in DC.

Meanwhile, f/k/a advises apply for this! Be prepared for an invasive procedure.

Shameless self-promotion: hire court-o-rama! Blogging doesn't quite pay the bills. Almost. We're insightful (sometimes painfully so!), enliven dull meetings, work best under pressure, and type faster than a hurricane. Ask how high, we're already jumping.

Happy Friday and good luck!

Full post as published by court-o-rama.org on November 14, 2008 (boomark / email).