Career and Professional Development Center

Interviewing Information Spring 2009

Spring 2009 on-campus interview for first-year law students will be held February 3 and 10, 2009. Each day interviews will be held in two time blocks, one in the morning from 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and one in the afternoon from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Employers may sign up for one or both time blocks. There is no fee to participate in Spring OCI.

Spring 2009 Registration

Arrival Information

When you arrive at Duke Law School, please be sure to do the following:

  1. INTERVIEWER NAMES: If you have not already done so, please enter your interviewer names on Symplicity at this time.
  2. PARKING/ Check-in: Please arrive 30 minutes before your first interview and park in the pay Visitor's Lot on Science Drive (directly across from Fuqua School of Business). A pay meter with instructions is there for your convenience. If you would like a complementary parking pass to place in your vehicle, then you may obtain one from the Career Center.

Registration for Spring 2009 Recruiting

All employers participating in Spring OCI 2009 recruiting must use Symplicity. All correspondence pertaining to Spring OCI will be sent via email to the contact listed on Symplicity. Please make sure that your recruiting department is able to access Symplicity prior to the above dates. If you have problems, registering, please contact our office. OCI dates are assigned in the order in which they are received. Once your registration has been approved and a date assigned, you will receive an e-mail confirmation.

Forgot Password?
If you no longer have your password information, please log onto Symplicity and click the "FORGOT MY PASSWORD" tab at the top of the login page. Enter your User ID and a password will be sent to that e-mail address.

Instructions for Spring OCI Registration

Spring 2009 Important Dates

Invitations emailed to employers: November 25, 2008

Registration begins: December 1, 2008, at Noon EST

Registration ends: January 9, 2009

Notification of OCI date to registrants: Once we have processed your registration, you will receive an email confirming your interview date.

Resume Solicitation

If you are unable to come on campus to interview, you may perfer to receive resumes on-line and directly contact the individual students with whom you are interested. While we accept job postings through the year, we encourage you to post your description during the height of the 1L job searching process.

How to post a job or a resume collect using our on-line system:

  1. Log onto https://law-duke-csm.symplicity.com/employers.
  2. Enter your Duke Law "USER ID" and "PASSWORD" previously emailed to you.
  3. Click on "JOBS/RESUME COLLECT."
  4. Make sure that you are in the tab labeled "JOB POSTINGS/ RESUME COLLECT- NON OCI."
  5. Click "ADD NEW."
  6. Complete the form in its entirety.

Helpful Hints:

** NOTE ---Employers may edit and deactivate postings at any time by logging onto the system and clicking on the job title.

Location

Spring 2009 OCI will be held at Duke School of Law, Science Drive and Towerview Road, Durham, NC 27708.

Spring Employer Receptions

If your organization will be hosting a reception in Durham, NC aimed at attracting first-year law students, we strongly encourage you to schedule your reception prior to our Spring Break from January 28-February 19, 2009. Please contact our office at the number below to reserve your reception date. A listing of restaurants and hotels that will assist you with your event may be found here.

Shipping Packages and Marketing Materials

If you plan to ship marketing materials to the law school to be distributed on your scheduled interview date, please send according to the following instructions:

  1. Plan to mail all packages so that they arrive at Duke Law School two business days prior to your scheduled interview date. This should provide ample time to correct errors such as lost or misdirected packages.
  2. Please address all packages as follows:

    Tedi Mason
    Duke University School of Law
    Science Drive & Towerview Road
    Box 90367
    Durham, North Carolina 27708
    919-613-7264
    CareerCenter@law.duke.edu

    FedEx/UPS Shipments: The Law School's physical address is Science Dr. & Towerview Rd. (Do not include the Box number).
    Do not address the package to yourself or your interviewers - if our mailroom does not recognize the addressee on the package, this increases the chance that it will not be delivered to the proper place.

  3. Include the following email address: CareerCenter@law.duke.edu in the shipping company’s tracking and notification system. This will help the Career Center staff know when your package has been received in our mailroom so that I can in turn track the package within the law school.
  4. Clearly label and package separately all materials that are to be delivered some place other than the interview room suite. The area designated for your hospitality table may not be in close proximity to your interview room. This will help us to deliver all of your materials to their proper destination.
  5. If you are hosting an evening reception in the Durham area, please make arrangements with the venue to ship your materials directly there.

Conditions of Recruiting On-Campus

Anti-Discrimination Policy

"Duke University School of Law is committed to providing students and graduates with equal opportunity to obtain employment without discrimination based on race, color, veteran status, religion, national origin, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, age or handicap.

In the Law School's view, the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy of the United States military constitutes or permits discrimination based on grounds of sexual orientation. The School nonetheless permits the military service to use its facilities for recruitment because the failure to do so would subject Duke University to the loss of substantial Federal funding."

Statement Adopted by the Faculty of Duke Law School

STATEMENT COMPLIANCE:

PLEASE CHECK THE SECTION ON YOUR ON-LINE SYMPLICITY REGISTRATION REQUEST FORM LABELED DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW ANTI-DISCRIMINATORY POLICY TO AFFIRM YOUR ORGANIZATION'S COMPLIANCE.

All employers interviewing at Duke Law School are encouraged to be familiar with the School's Anti-discrimination Policy and the National Association for Law Placement publication, Lawful and Effective Interviewing Practices, as an aid to appropriate interviewing practices.

Spring 2009 OCI Cancellation Policy

*All cancellation requests must be made at least four days prior to your interview date.

Scholastic Standing and Grading Policy

The Law School does not release class rank.

Duke Law School uses a slightly modified form of the familiar 4.0 scale. The modification permits faculty to recognize especially distinguished performances with grades above a 4.0. The highest grade given is 4.3. A grade of 1.5 or lower is failing.

The median grade for all first- year and upper level courses of 40 or more students is 3.3.

Again, Duke Law School does not release class rank.