Summer Program
The Bureau of Competition is actively recruiting talented and dedicated law students with an exceptional level of commitment to the public interest to enforce the antitrust laws as mandated by Congress. A background in business or economics is preferred but not required. The Bureau is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity in all its policies, practices, and programs, and devotes special attention to the recruitment of veteran, minority, disabled, and women candidates. The Commission fully embraces the spirit and letter of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
Assignments
We assign summer law clerks to one of four practice types: Mergers & Acquisitions, Anticompetitive Practices, Healthcare Services and Products and Compliance. Our goal is to offer intellectually stimulating projects that give summer law clerks an opportunity to demonstrate their writing, analytical, and advocacy skills. The type of work given to summer law clerks is similar in complexity to assignments given to junior attorneys. Students can express a preference for one or more practice types. We make every effort to accommodate their interests, but cannot guarantee a specific assignment.
Performance Reviews and Offers
All summer law clerks are given a mid-point and final review. The mid-point review helps you gauge your progress and identify any problem that needs attention well before the final review.
Offer decisions are made upon completion of the entire summer program. Because of the high qualifications of our summer law clerks, the Bureau hires as many of its new attorneys as possible from the ranks of our former summer law clerks
Split Policy
We strongly prefer that summer law clerks spend at least 8 weeks with the Bureau. If you plan on splitting with another firm or agency, we require you to spend the first half of the summer with us.
Compensation
The 2006 salary for second-year law students will be GS-9 step 1 salary scale.
