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The Career Services Office recruits legal employers in every major city in the United States to hire our students and new graduates. We work with the TMSL Office of External Affairs to maintain contact with alumni in nearly every state in the country and refer students to these individuals when their geographic focus is specific or interest is in a specialized area of practice.

Job Fairs and Recruitment Programs
The Law School currently participates in seventeen (17) annual recruitment programs. The fall roster of programs includes the Southeastern Minority Recruitment Program, the Texas in Washington Recruitment Program, the Annual Delaware Minority Recruitment Program, the IMPACT Career Fair Program, the Heartland Diversity Job Fair, the Cook County Bar Association Job Fair, the Northwest Minority Job Fair, the Minnesota Minority Recruitment Conference, the Sunbelt Minority Recruitment Program, and the Equal Justice Works Job Fair. During the spring semester, Thurgood Marshall participates in the following programs: the Houston Bar Association Minority Clerkship Program, the Public Service Career Day Job Fair, the Texas Off-Campus Recruitment Program, the Valley Days Job Fair, the Chicago Patent Law Interview Program, the DuPont Minority Job Fair, and the National Black Prosecutors Association Job Fair.

On Campus Interview Program
On-campus interviewing (OCI) is available to all students. Employers are invited to recruit students on campus during both semesters. Visit the CSO calendar for more information, as it becomes available.

Employers who recruit from Thurgood Marshall include:

1^st Court of Appeals of Texas
2^nd Court of Appeals of Texas
Adams & Reese, LLP
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, LLP
Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
Chamberlain Hrdlicka
City of Chicago, Department of Law
Clark, Thomas & Winters, PC
Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office
Duane Morris, LLP
Office of General Counsel, Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Trade Commission
Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP
Gardere Wynne Sewell, LLP
Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, PC
Harris County District Attorney’s Office
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Jackson Walker, LLP
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP
Liskow & Lewis
Marathon Oil Company
National Labor Relations Board
Office of the Attorney General of Texas
Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service
Patterson & Sheridan, LLP
Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia
Quarles & Brady, LLP
Schwartz Junell Greenberg & Oathout, LLP
Sidley Austin, LLP
State Counsel for Offenders
Stinson Morrison Hecker, LLP
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
Texas General Land Office
Thompson & Knight, LLP
U.S. Air Force JAG Corps
U.S. Army JAG Corps
U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps
Vinson & Elkins, LLP
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP
Winstead, PC

RESUME REFERRAL PROGRAM
The Resume Referral Program is available to employers who cannot participate in Thurgood Marshall’s on-campus interview season. The CSO gives students a resume referral list of the names and hiring criteria of employers who recruit our students by mail. The employer submits three copies of its resume, or brochure, and the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) Questionnaire to the CSO. The employer's specified hiring criteria is posted to students, and they are instructed as to whether to submit their resumes directly to the employer or have them forwarded by the CSO.