The HUD Legal Honors program is now officially open (https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/611922200). It will close on Monday, October 25, 2021.
This year, there are 10 vacancies in the following locations: Denver, CO (1 vacancy); Washington, DC (5 vacancies); Atlanta, GA (1 vacancy); Chicago, IL (1 vacancy); New York, NY (1 vacancy; and my office, Fort Worth, TX (1 vacancy).
To be considered, applicants MUST meet the following criteria:
- Third-year law students who will earn their J.D. by June 2022; OR
- Graduate law (LL.M) students in their last year of study who will graduate by June 2022; OR
- A law school graduate holding a current judicial law clerk position whose clerkship ends no later than September 2022.
AND
- Must NOT have been admitted to the bar of any State, District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or territories of the United States; AND
- Applicants must have an overall grade point average (GPA) of 3.00 based on a scale of 4.0 or Academic standing in the upper 1/3 of the law school graduating class; AND
- Only United States citizens can be admitted to the Law Clerk Program, and each person selected for the program must undergo a complete security/background investigation and be granted a security clearance.