LALSA Newsletter 4/16/07 - 4/21/07

In this Issue:
- LALSA Events and Reminders including:
-----Course Selection/ Law Journal Info Session THIS Thursday
-----LALSA Bar Review THIS Friday
-----LALSA Banquet Info

- Job Fair, Conferences, Etc.
-----Latino Law & Public Policy Conference THIS Thursday
-----BLG Job Fair Info***
-----Felix Arroyo's Birthday Party Invitation

LALSA EVENTS & REMINDERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1) 2Ls & 3Ls PLEASE SUMBIT COURSE/ PROFESSORS RECOMMENDATIONS
The ALSAs are compiling an info list on courses and professors to hand out to 1Ls. Please submit your thoughts on your courses/professors to BCLALSA@gmail.com by TOMORROW, April 22.

2) LAW JOURNALS & COURSE SELECTION INFO SESSION - Thursday, April 19 at 12:30
Location: EW115A
Please join us for an info session on the write-on competition for the law journals, as well info on what courses and professors you should be sure to take. Free Food will be provided. LALSA, APALSA, BLSA & SALSA are co-sponsoring this event.

3) LALSA BAR REVIEW - Friday, April 20 @ 8:45pm
Location: Mojitos, Winter St, Boston MA
Everyone is welcome to LALSA's end of the year bar review to celebrate the graduating 3Ls. There will be free drinks, salsa lessons and more. Please bring your student ID. Each student ID will allow free entry to student + 2 guests!!! Please contact BCLALSA@gmail.com with any questions

4) LALSA ANNUAL BANQUET - Monday, April 23 @ 6pm
Last Day to RSVP is THIS thursday
Location: Tasca Restaurant, 1612 Comm Ave. Brighton MA
Please note the TIME CHANGE to 6pm (instead of 5:30). Please join us as we celebrate the graduating 3Ls and the end of a great year. The guest speaker will be Senator Jarrett Barrios. Please RSVP on the evite or to BCLALSA@gmail.com

5) LALSA OUTLINE BANK
Please submit outlines to BCLALSA@gmail.com to add to our outline bank on lexis nexis. To view to current outlines go to lexisnexis.com/lawschool and click on webcourses. If you have problems accessing this please e-mail bclalsa@gmail.com

JOBS, CONFERENCES, ETC -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1) NETWORKING FAIR AT HARVARD LATINO LAW & PUBLIC POLICY CONFERENCE - Thurs April 19 4-5:30pm
Location: Kennedy School of Government in the Taubman building, Nye Conference room.
** Free **
You are invited to attend the Networking Fair at the Harvard Latino Law and Public Policy Conference: Advancing a National Leadership Agenda, on Thursday, April 19 from 4:00 to 5:30 pm. Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served and a keynote address sponsored by the Conference and given by Henry Cisneros will immediately follow the fair in the KSG forum.

Employers attending the conference this year include law firms
Dewey Ballantine,
Littler Mendelson,
Shearman & Sterling,
Quarles & Brady,
Cleary Gottlieb,
Sullivan & Cromwell,
Steptoe,
Skadden,
Nutter,
Proskauer Rose and
Goodwin Proctor.
Additional employers will include
McKinsey,
Massachusetts State - Offices of Diversity and Equal Opportunity and
Office of Refugees and Immigrants,
the GAO,
the CIA, and
the Hispanic Health Council.

For more information or to register for the conference, please visit http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/lar-program.htm
Please come - we want this to a big event for networking among area Latino students!*

2) 2007 BLG BOSTON JOB FAIR
Please go to our website between now and May 4, 2007 to complete the online pre-registration form for the Boston Job Fair, (www.bostonlawyersgroup.org). To be eligible to participate you must submit your resume and transcript to your law school career service office by Friday, July 13, 2007.

3) COUNCILOR FELIX D. ARROYO'S BIRTHDAY PARTY - Friday, April 20 6-9pm
Location: Jamaica Plain American Legion Post #76, 280 South Street, Jamaica Plain (parking is available and the hall is located across the street from the Forest Hills T Station)
The "Friends of Felix" invite you to Councilor Felix D. Arroyo's Birthday Party. Let us come together and celebrate his birthday!! More importantly, help us re-elect him to continue his equity and justice agenda:
Ø Pursuing more affordable housing for our communities.
Ø Improving neighborhood safety.
Ø Advocating for economic equity for our families.
Ø Seeking justice for our children and equal education for all.
$25.00 Minimum Donation
$10.00 for Senior Citizens, Students and Low-income
Large donations of $200 to $500 are accepted as sponsors
Make personal checks payable to "Friends of Felix" (We cannot accept corporate checks or money orders). Please mail contributions to: "Friends of Felix," Lillian Gonzalez, Treasurer, P.O. Box 1421, Boston, MA 02130
This announcement was printed in-house and the labor was donated. Authorized by the "Friends of Felix" Committee to Re-elect Felix Arroyo. For more information: www.felixarroyo.com


4) OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT - Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 5:00- 7:00pm
Location: the John Adams, Courthouse, One Pemberton Square, Boston

Who Should Attend: Women and Minority Law Students and Newly-Admitted Lawyers
Sponsored By: The National Association of Women Judges and Co-Sponsored by the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts and Bromberg & Sunstein LLP.

Join Massachusetts Appeals Court Justice Nan Duffly, President-Elect of the National Association of Women Judges; Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial court; and former State Senator Patricia McGovern, Legal Counsel to General Counsel, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, to learn about opportunities in the three branches of government. The evening will be filled with informal discussions with women judges, legislators, and members of the executive Branch *Click here to RSVP*<https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickForm/viewForm.do?orgId=nawj&formId=26109 by Friday, April 20, https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickForm/viewForm.do?orgId=nawj&formId=26109. For more information, contact Appeals Court Law Clerk Stephanie Mandell at stephanie.mandell@appct.state.ma.us
*Cost:* *$10 for those newly admitted to the bar*; Law students are free