To inform and educate students about the public service realm, our CDO presents information sessions throughout the academic year. Attorneys who work for public service employers are often the featured speakers. Recent public service information session topics have included:

  • Careers at Earthjustice
  • Colorado State Public Defender's Office
  • Equal Justice Works: Programs & Public Interest Career Resources
  • Financing Your Public Service Career
  • Navy JAG Program: Internship & Career Opportunities
  • Nuts and Bolts of the LRAP Application
  • Post-grad Public Service Job Search Planning for 2Ls
  • Presidential Management Fellowship ("PMF") Program
  • U.S. Department of Justice Honors and SLIP Programs
  • Wednesday Morning Coffee with the Colorado Governor's Office of Legal Counsel

In January 2018, the CDO sponsored the 7th Annual JD Pathways, a career conference that brought together 104 students and 71 attorneys, a number of whom work for public service employers. The conference included mock interviews, an Interviewing Tips and Techniques Panel, and a Public Interest Law Panel, all of which featured members from the public service law community.

The CDO also hosts approximately 80 employers each academic year through the fall and spring On-Campus Interview (OCI) programs. Public service employers participate in Colorado Law's OCI programs alongside private sector employers. Participating public service employers who participated in our OCI programs during the 2017-2018 academic year included:

  • Boulder County Attorney's Office
  • Colorado District Attorneys' Council (CDAC)
  • Colorado Judicial District Attorney’s Offices (4th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th Districts)
  • Colorado Office of Administrative Courts
  • Colorado Office of the Attorney General
  • Fort Collins City Attorney's Office
  • Internal Revenue Service, Office of Chief Counsel
  • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
  • The Public Interest Network
  • U.S. Air Force JAG Corps
  • U.S. Army JAG Corps
  • U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Colorado
  • U.S. Department of Energy, Golden Field Office
  • U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor
  • U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission