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REGISTRATION FOR THE SECOND MUSLIM LAW CAREER CONFERENCE IS NOW OPEN!
The UPenn MLSA and NMLSA are excited to present the Second Muslim Law Career Conference.  This is an annual conference open to Muslims all over the country with any interest in the legal profession.  The conference will consist of an Employer Fair and a series of panel discussions.

WHAT:  Panel Discussions and Employer Career Fair.
-Panels will feature topics such as:  clerking, getting into law school, lateraling, and working in the private, public interest, and government sectors, etc.
-Private firm, nonprofit, and government organization representatives will be present as part of the career fair to discuss careers, summer positions, etc. at their firms/organizations and some will offer interviews to attendees.

To see a full and constantly updated list of career fair employers, event sponsors, panel topics, and panelists, please visit http://www.law.upenn.edu/groups/mlsa.

WHEN:  Saturday, February 9th, 2008; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

WHERE:  University of Pennsylvania Law School, Levy Conference Center; Philadelphia, PA

COST:  Free with online registration; $10 at the door

TO REGISTER:  Online registration is available now at http://mlsa.upennmsa.org/wordpress/?p=3 .  Please help us by registering early and save yourself the $10 fee charged at the door!

TO HELP:  To help publicize this event at your school or in your city, please email Aly Carpenter (acarpenter@law.upenn.edu).  If you'd like to volunteer your time otherwise, please email alia.khan@law.upenn.edu.

QUESTIONS:  For more information, please visit http://www.law.upenn.edu/groups/mlsa or email alia.khan@law.upenn.edu.

We look forward to seeing you at the conference, insha'Allah!

(Learn more about our past events by clicking the link on the left toolbar!!) Law students and Muslim Law Student Associations from around the country are getting organized to form a unified national network. This is the first time that representatives from law schools around the nation have formed a national network of Muslim law students, with the aim of setting up the National Muslim Law Student Association (NMLSA).

NMLSA hopes to play a key role in facilitating dialogues to promote understanding, tolerance, and the exchange of ideas among law students of all religions, races, and backgrounds. We also aim to encourage the active involvement and integration of Muslims into the American legal system and to promote greater diversity in the legal profession. Through its activities, NMLSA plans to promote the balanced and comprehensive professional, spiritual, cultural, and academic development of all law students, regardless of their religious or racial background.

NMLSA hopes to play a key role in encouraging and promoting the active involvement of Muslim law students in shaping the American legal landscape. At the same time, NMLSA will encourage Muslim law students to be proactive and push to set up new chapters in their law schools to give Muslims a voice in the American law school scene.

So far, NMLSA has received strong encouragement and assistance from MSA National, the National Black Law Student Association’s Executive Committee, the National Association of Muslim Lawyers as well as from individuals in the American Bar Association’s Law Student Division.

Contact us if you want to join the NMLSA list-serve, start a chapter of NMLSA in your law school, be a law school rep, be a circuit coordinator for NMLSA, or if you want to hook up your local law school organization with the national network.

For more information on NMLSA or any of our upcoming meetings/events, please email NMLSA at nmlsa_org@yahoo.com.