Legal Setting: Corporations

Web Resources

• Glassdoor posts summer internships in companies across the United States.
• Goinhouse posts opportunities for various posted corporate positions
• Internships USA(requires password) has a guide for "corporate internships" that includes legal internships.
• Martindale Hubbell: to search for company legal departments in locations you are interested in, you can use the "companies" search tab.
• LawStudentJobs posts in-house internships
• Inside Counsel, an online magazine for corporate executives posts jobs on its online job board.
• Association of Corporate Counsel has an online job board for permanent positions.
• General Counsel positions with health organizations can be found on the AHLA job board.
• Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics has a job board with compliance positions across the country.  Corporations' compliance departments often hire recent law school graduates.
• HumanResourcesJobs.comincludes job postings for human resource departments in corporations. Recently, human resource departments have increasingly looked to hire JDs.
• National Association of College and University Attorneys posts positions, largely in compliance and risk management, but also in university counsel positions
• In-House Quick Tips, an article discussing the in-house job search.

Relevant Careerblog Articles

OCP's CareerBloghas several articles on in-house opportunities available under the "Job Resources," "job postings",  and "professional development" tabs.

• Interested In In-House Work?
• Resources to Help You Find a Summer Internship With a Company
• In-House Opportunities
• Going In-House Life as Corporate Counsel

OCP Library Resources

Note: If you have trouble finding a resource in OCP's library ask us to help you find it; it could be checked out.

America's Greatest Places to Work with a Law Degree, Kimm Alayne Walton

Corporate Yellow Book Leadership Directory includes contact information for companies across the United States (recent version in the library)

In-House Law Departments at the Top 500 Companies (2010) provides information about the company's top legal officer and information on where s/he went to law school and work history.

Internships USA Series, Career Education Institute—OCP has print versions of the Internship series available on the web: