Students and Recent Graduates
About the Southeastern Intellectual Property Job Fair®
Southeastern Intellectual Property Job Fair® connects rising second- and third-year students with employers offering 2014 summer positions. Immediate openings are available for 2013, 2012 and 2011 graduates. Participants must be graduates of or enrolled in a SIPJF-registered school.
Participating Schools
Accredited law schools in the southeastern region of the United States may participate in the fair: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.
How to Participate
- Invited and approved law schools must register for the fair by Monday, April 8. Ask your career services office if your school is participating. Students may not apply until their law schools have registered.
- Your career services office will receive and distribute a list of participating employers for your review after May 6.
- Determine whether you would like to participate in the fair, and submit the Student Participation Form to your career services office.
- Submit your payment online.
- After your payment is received, you will be able to log into Symplicity to upload your resume and bid on employer meetings.
Registration
The student registration fee is $30 per student and nonrefundable. Check and credit card payments are accepted.
Check payments must be submitted to your home career services office along with your student participation form. Make checks payable to Southeastern Intellectual Property Job Fair, Attention: Vickie Brown.
You may pay online, but you must still submit your student participation form to your home career services office to complete your registration.
Past Participating Schools
Click to expand a list of schools that have participated in SIPJF in the past.
Alabama
- Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law
- Samford University Cumberland School of Law
- The University of Alabama School of Law
Arkansas
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law
- University of Arkansas School of Law
Florida
- Barry University School of Law
- Florida Coastal School of Law
- Florida International University College of Law
- Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
- Florida State University College of Law
- Nova Southeastern Shepard Broad Law Center
- Stetson University College of Law
- University of Florida Levin College of Law
- University of Miami School of Law
Georgia
- Emory University School of Law
- Georgia State University College of Law
- John Marshall Law School (Atlanta)
- Mercer University School of Law
- University of Georgia School of Law
Kentucky
- University of Kentucky College of Law
- University of Lousiville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
- Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law
Louisiana
- Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center
- Loyola University New Orleans School of Law
- Tulane University Law School
Mississippi
- University of Mississippi School of Law
North Carolina
- Campbell University Norman A. Wiggins School of Law
- Charlotte School of Law
- Duke University School of Law
- Elon University School of Law
- North Carolina Central University School of Law
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law
- Wake Forest University College of Law
Oklahoma
- University of Tulsa College of Law
- University of Oklahoma College of Law
South Carolina
- Charleston School of Law
- University of South Carolina School of Law
Tennessee
- University of Memphis School of Law
- University of Tennessee College of Law
- Vanderbilt University School of Law
Texas
- Baylor University Law School
- South Texas College of Law
- Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
- St. Mary's University School of Law
- Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law
- Texas Tech University School of Law
- Texas Wesleyan University School of Law
- The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
- University of Houston Law Center
West Virginia
- West Virginia University College of Law
Managing your SIPJF Symplicity Account
You're registered. Now what? Click to expand information about creating and managing your SIPJF Symplicity candidate account.
Students will use Symplicity for bidding tracking applications, and managing employer meetings. You will need a SIPJF-specific Symplicity account to participate. Last year’s SIPJF participants may reuse their accounts. Other Symplicity accounts are unaffiliated and do not provide the information you will need for this event.
Refer to the timeline for the bidding process dates.
1. Setting up a Symplicity SIPJF account
- Log on Symplicity at http://law-sipjf-csm.symplicity.com/students with your regular Symplicity credentials.
If you have an account from last year, login using the email address you used to create the account and your password. If you forgot your password, click the “Forgot Password” button.
- Click the Register tab, fill out all fields and click Submit.
- Once the SIPJF Event Coordinator has reviewed your form and confirmed receipt of fees, you will receive a confirmation email containing your username and password for the SIPJF Symplicity account. Note: Passwords are randomly generated; it is recommended that you change your password when you log into SIPJF Symplicity for the first time.
- If there is a problem with your registration or payment, you will be notified.
2. Managing Your SIPJF Symplicity Account and Bidding
- Log on to http://law-sipjf-csm.symplicity.com/students with the credentials provided to you in your confirmation email.
- Menu navigation items include Profile, Documents, Employers and OCI.
- Profile: Review and update your personal contact information, academic information and change your password.
- Documents: Upload your resume and any other documents to be submitted to the employers. Many employers require additional documentation (transcripts, writing samples, etc.) – be sure all documents are in the system before attempting to make bids.
- Employers: View the participating employers and their websites.
- OCI: Review the employer’s position descriptions by clicking either the Review or Apply buttons.
- You may review information at any time.
- To submit your bid for a position, click the Apply button in the right hand corner.
