Recruiting in state courts topic of webinar July 13

The National Center for State Courts will present the webinar “Expanding Diversity in Clerkship, Internship, and Externship Recruiting in State Courts - the Launch of CORA!” on Thursday, July 13, at 3 p.m. via Zoom.

The webinar will discuss CORA—Court Opportunity Recruitment for All—a free, online portal that matches court opportunities with interested candidates. Attendees will learn about how CORA can work with courts to hire law clerks, interns, and externs to bolster recruitment efforts. CORA is a unique win-win-win, offering orderly, transparent, and fair hiring processes is critical to judges, law schools, and applicants alike.

This webinar will be the first of several, aimed at a discussion by and for court leadership about why recruitment of law clerks, interns, and externs is so important. It will offer discussion as to why judges and court administrators should post their internship, externship, and law clerkship positions on CORA, and to highlight strategies for broadly communicating clerkship openings, and lessons learned by state courts across the country in their recruitment efforts.

Speaking at the webinar will be:

• D.C. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby

• Georgia Court of Appeals Presiding Judge Stephen Dillard

• California Supreme Court Associate Justice Goodwin H. Liu

• Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Collins Seitz

• Moderator Danielle Elyce Hirsch, managing director, National Center for State Courts

To register for the program, visit www.ncsc.org and click on “webinars.”