The services of the Office of Career Services are for the exclusive use of Loyola Law School students and alumni. Those utilizing Office resources should be prepared to produce proper identification upon request by a staff member.
Policies address the following areas:
- Resumes (Click here for samples)
- On-campus interviews (OCI)
- Career Services use (procedures/student files/resources)
- Part-time work restrictions for full-time students
- Non-discrimination (Law School policy for employers)
- Use of Placement Services and Complaint Procedures
All students utilizing the Office are required to read these policies and sign the Student Acknowledgment of Career Services Policies and Procedures form. Those policies and procedures include the items that follow.
a. All information on resumes must be presented truthfully and without misrepresentation. Students may not list expected or anticipated work experience or activities which are not currently in-progress, except for post-graduate judicial clerkships which have been confirmed. Grades, grade point average(s) and percentile/numeric rank must be verifiable through the Office of the Registrar and must be stated on the resume exactly as issued by the Office of the Registrar (even those ending in .00). (Note: “Issued” means the student has been notified by the Office of Career Services that the information on the Student Web Services may be used for resume purposes.) Honors, awards and memberships on a student's resume may be verified through the Registrar's Office.
b. Students may list the First Honors Award on a resume only after they have been formally notified of the award by the Office of the Registrar. (Reference should be made to the section on First Honors Award in the Student Handbook for more detailed information.)
c. All student resumes must conform to the policies of the Office of Career Services regardless of whether a student submits resumes to the Office or transmits them directly to potential employers, and regardless of whether a student learns of potential employment through the Office or through other sources.
See: Resumes & Correspondence »
a. There is no limit to the number of employers to which students may apply. However, no student may have more than twenty (20) on-campus interviews during either On-Campus Interview (OCI) program (Fall or Spring).
b. Cancellation of any on-campus interview must be given in writing and with 48 business hours prior notice. This includes any interviews coordinated by the Office which are held off-campus. Students who fail to give proper notice are subject to suspension from all remaining interview programs for the academic year (e.g., subsequent on-campus interviews will be cancelled). At the very minimum, students will be required to send a written note of apology to the affected employer(s) within 24 hours.
c. Two (2) copies of any resume forwarded to employers in response to the Office of Career Services' job listing information must be on file in the Office; five (5) copies of the student's resume must be on file in the Office if participating in the on-campus interview program.
d. A full-time Day Division student may not work more than twenty (20) hours per week during any semester.
3. To be eligible to participate in Fall OCI, students must 1) be currently enrolled in Loyola Law School, 2) intend to remain so throughout the Fall semester, and 3) be classified as 2L (2D/3E), 3L (3D/4E), 4L or LLM. Students who apply to transfer from Loyola Law School, as evidenced by their request to have their Loyola transcript forwarded to another law school, or their request for a letter of good standing or faculty letters of recommendation for another law school, will be deemed to be ineligible to participate in early OCI (August). Such students may restore their eligibility for regular OCI (September) by enrolling in the Fall semester and reaffirming their intention to remain at Loyola throughout the Fall semester. Students who make false statements of their intention to remain at Loyola may be deemed to have violated the Law School’s Standards of Conduct and be subject to the sanctions which apply to such violations.
Loyola Law School is a member of the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) and the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and adheres to a policy of non-discrimination in the hiring, compensation, work assignment or promotion of any person on the basis of sex, age, race, color, religious creed, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, marital, parental or veteran status, or the prejudice of clients.
Note: An exception to the Loyola Law School Office of Career Services non-discrimination policy and AALS bylaws is granted to representatives of the U.S. Department of Defense who discriminate on a basis not permitted by Loyola's non-discrimination policy or AALS bylaws. The exception was initially made in order to avoid the loss of funds that would otherwise have been imposed under the 1996 Solomon Amendment.