The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) is seeking input from employers in the public-interest legal community on its long-range, strategic planning process for the next five years.

NALP is a non-profit, educational association serving law schools, legal employers, and lawyers by providing information, coordination and standards regarding the legal employment process. NALP’s membership includes most ABA-approved law schools in the U.S. and hundreds of legal employers from the public and private sectors.

Specifically, the organization is seeking expertise, judgments and perspectives on:

• Perceptions of NALP (e.g., Awareness of—and value placed on—its employment and salary research data, websites, publications, leaders, etc.);
• Important professional challenges or trends confronting public interest employers over the next few years (e.g., funding, recruiting high-quality staff, etc.); and
• NALP’s role in helping to address these challenges.

Interested parties should contact Terrence Galligan, Assistant Dean for Career Development at UC Berkeley School of Law and a member of NALP’s Strategic Planning Committee, at tgalligan@law.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-7746.

From LSC Updates, August 20, 2009