About LELSA
The Labor and Employment Law Students Association is a community of law students focused on employees and their legal relationship with their employers. Our organization also focuses on providing resources and development in three core areas: academics, career placement, and community involvement.

• What is Labor and Employment Law? This area of law addresses the relationship between employers and their employees. Labor and employment attorneys work in big firms and small firms, government agencies, and as in-house counsel. They often specialize in a particular client group like representing companies, workers, or labor unions; or a particular practice area like employment discrimination, employee benefits, workers compensation, or wage-and-hour claims.

• What does LELSA do? We are a group of law students with diverse interests in labor and employment law. We plan professional, academic, and social events; and help connect interested students with practitioners for networking and internship opportunities.

• How can I get involved? LELSA is going through a renaissance this year, and is looking for many creative members to help chart our future. If you want to make a meaningful contribution during your time at USF and want to be actively involved in a professionally-focused organization, we want you.

• Contact: The LELSA President in Whitney O'Sullivan.  To get involved, email Whitney at whitney.osullivanATgmail.com.

• Stay in touch: Sign-up for LELSA's email list. We'll email out information about upcoming activities, LELSA events, and other information of interest to our members.  (And the list is moderated, so don't worry about spam.)

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LELSA Events

| Weekly Brownbag Series with USF Faculty:  | Thursday, November 5 - Professor Ontiveros will tell you why the keys to  | labor and employment cases are the history and facts at issue.  |  | Thursday, November 12 - Professor Green will discuss using race and sex  | as factors in making workplace management decisions.  |  | Thursday, November 19 - Professor Travis will tell you why you should only  | be working 4 days a week.  |  | 12:30 to 1:20pm weekly in 104 Kendrick  | Bring your lunch, thoughts, questions, and opinions.  Cookies and drinks  | will be provided.  | Summer Employment and Prepping for PIPS Day:  | January  | Get tips on identifying labor and employment job opportunities at PIPS Day.  | Pemberton Lecture:    | Thursday, March 4 at 6:30-8:30pm  | 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 95 Seventh Street in San Francisco  | Finding Labor & Employment Jobs at Law Firms:  | April  | How to prepare for OCI for Summer 2011 and find the firm job you want.  | Our social chair will also be planning a spring bar night and fall social activity. Check back here for more events, or sign-up for our email list for updates. For USF events, visit the Law School's online calendar.

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Studying Labor and Employment Law at USF
We are very fortunate to have an active labor and employment faculty at USF, with regular course offerings in Employment Law, Labor Law, and Employment Discrimination, and two-semester Employment Mediation Clinic.  USF faculty members who teach labor and employment courses include:

• Professor Maria Linda Ontiveros

• Professor Robert Talbot

• Professor Michelle Travis

• Visiting Professor Tristin Green

• Adjunct Professor Donald Carroll

• 2009 Pemberton Lecture - And Deliver Us From Evil: Constitutional Themes and the Perpetuation of Servitude (held in conjunction with the USF Law Review's symposium on immigrant labor)

• 2007 Pemberton Lecture - The Great American Makeover: The Sexing Up and Dumbing Down of Female Workers After Jespersen

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Resources

• ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law

• California Bar Labor and Employment Law Section

• Labor and Employment Laws Across the US (compiled by the Cornell Legal Information Institute)

• The Office of Career Planning has developed a practice area guide on Labor and Employment Law (log on to USFLaw Link and go to the Document Library)

• Professor Travis' Employment Law Resources

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This website is administered by the USF Labor and Employment Law Students Association, a student organization at the University of San Francisco School of Law. | You can reach the webmaster at djkinyonATusfca.edu.