The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

CHECKLIST FOR COMPLETING YOUR HONOR PROGRAM APPLICATION

This application must be typed or printed clearly

Page 1 Checklist

• GENERAL INFORMATION: Include your name (last, first, middle initial), complete address, evening and daytime telephone numbers, and e-mail address. Indicate the law school you currently attend (if you are visiting a law school for a semester, indicate the school you are visiting).
• JUDICIAL CLERKSHIP: JUDICIAL LAW CLERKS MUST COMPLETE THIS INFORMATION. If you are a judicial law clerk or will enter a clerkship prior to the deadline date, indicate the name of the judge and the telephone number in chambers (IMPORTANT: JLCs are contacted in chambers with information about interviews). Indicate the court in which you serve, its location and full name, and the dates or your clerkship (beginning to end). If you are serving a second one-year clerkship, please indicate the first clerkship on your resume. YOUR CLERKSHIP, GENERALLY, MUST BEGIN NO LATER THAN SEVEN MONTHS POST-J.D. AND CANNOT EXCEED TWO YEARS.
• CURRENT YEAR IN SCHOOL: Check 3L if you will graduate in winter 2008/spring 2009. If you are serving in a judicial clerkship, please indicate the date you received your J.D. and provide information about your clerkship. If you are in a full-time LL.M. program, please indicate the date you received your J.D. and the date you expect to complete your LL.M.
• LAW SCHOOL RANK: Check only the appropriate percentage rank (if you are in the top 15% of your class, indicate the top 20% on your application). DO NOT TYPE IN A DIFFERENT PERCENTILE RANK.
• CHOICE OF EMPLOYMENT: Select offices to review your application, ranked in order of preference. DO NOT INDICATE YOUR CHOICES WITH X'S OR CHECKMARKS. Please choose carefully; we cannot change your selection after you have submitted your application.

Page 2 Checklist

• EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: Check where appropriate to indicate your participation. If you have prior work experience with the EEOC, indicate it here.
• EMPLOYMENT AND/OR LABOR LAW COURSES: List all law school courses which involved the study of employment and/or labor law.
• LEGAL EMPLOYERS: List a name, organization and telephone number for a contact person, preferably a supervisor or mentor who is familiar with you and your work experience.
• SURVEY: Tell us how you learned about the EEOC. You may check more than one source.
• AFFIDAVIT: Please read this statement carefully; then sign and date the application in ink.

SEND YOUR APPLICATION PACKAGE (FOUR COPIES OF YOUR APPLICATION FORM, COVER LETTER, RESUME, AND LAW SCHOOL TRANSCRIPT, COLLATED AND IN THE ORDER SPECIFIED) TO:

ATTORNEY HONOR PROGRAM
Amelia Demopulos, Supervisory Attorney
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Office of Federal Operations
1801 L Street, N.W., Room 5060
Washington, D.C. 20507

APPLICATION PACKAGES MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2008.

Need additional information? Check:

• The Internet: Information on the Honor Program and the different offices within the Commission can be found on the Commission's web page at http://www.eeoc.gov
• Telephone Information Line: Recorded information and updates on the Honor Program may be obtained by calling (202) 663-7175/TTY (202) 663-4593.

WE ARE SORRY, BUT WE CANNOT ACCEPT:

• application packages received after the deadline date for any reason. We encourage you to send your application package in a manner that guarantees delivery by a specific date. Be forewarned, we make no exceptions;
• incomplete application packages;
• duplicate application packages (submit only one application package);
• corrections to your application package at any time;
• faxed application packages;
• letters of recommendation and writing samples (if you are selected for an interview, you will be asked to bring a letter of recommendation and writing sample to your interview);
• telephone inquiries regarding receipt of your application;
• telephone inquiries requesting the name of your interviewer;
• requests to change your interview schedule.

AS MUCH AS WE WOULD LIKE TO BE ACCOMMODATING, STRICT TIME CONSTRAINTS AND A LIMITED NUMBER OF STAFF REQUIRE THESE RESTRICTIONS.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND COOPERATION.

This page was last modified on August 11, 2008.

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