The 2025 Lavender Law Conference and Career Fair will be held in New York, NY from July 28 – 30, 2025!
The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association’s annual Lavender Law® Career Fair is designed to achieve a sense of community and inclusion for LGBTQ+ candidates within the legal profession’s recruiting efforts. By participating in this career fair, candidates will talk directly to LGBTQ+ friendly recruiters from law firms, government agencies, LGBTQ+ rights groups, and corporate legal departments.
If your organization wishes to recruit at the Lavender Law® Career Fair, you must commit to be a sponsor.
Only law firms, organizations, and government agencies that have a nondiscrimination policy that includes sexual orientation and gender identity/expression are eligible to recruit at the Career Fair. Click here to see our 2024 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Index.
The Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair actively seeks the involvement of individuals from every segment of the legal community and particularly welcomes the participation of people of color, transgender persons, and persons with disabilities. Membership in the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association is open to all lawyers, legal professionals, law students, and other individuals in the legal profession without regard to age, race, religion, gender, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression.
Information for Students and Recruiters
We had over 400 law students and over 200 law firms, nonprofits, and government agencies interested in diversity registered for our 2024 career fair.
Candidates:
Candidates are encouraged to discuss their identity and aspirations to become part of a bias-free work environment. Keep a copy of your resume handy to share!
Sponsors:
Sponsors are encouraged to take this opportunity to showcase their diversity efforts to top level law students and lateral candidates from around the country.
Click here to learn more about recruiting at the Lavender Law® Career Fair
Individual Career Counseling
This program is designed to provide students with a safe, confidential space where they can ask questions about job search skills, being out on your resume, in interviews and in the workplace, and other related issues.
In conjunction with the Lavender Law® Career Fair, students will have the opportunity to meet virtually with legal career service professionals. These legal career counselors are qualified to provide students with advice on resume, cover letters, and interviewing. Further, these counselors all have significant workplace experience in various legal sectors, including LGBTQ+ advocacy groups, big firms, and the government.
2024 Law School Attendance
Albany Law School
American University Washington College of Law
Arizona State University
Barry University School of Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law
Bethune Cookman University
Boston College Law School
Boston University School of Law
Brigham Young University Law School
Brooklyn Law School
California Western School of Law
Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Cleveland State University
Colorado Law
Columbia Law School
Cornell Law School
CUNY School of Law
DePaul University College of Law
Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Duke Law School
Duquesne Kline School of Law
Elon University School of Law
Emory University School of Law
Fordham University School of Law
George Mason University School Of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Georgia State University College of Law
Harvard Law School
Hofstra University School of Law
Howard University School of Law
Indiana University Maurer School Of Law
John Marshall Law School
Liberty University School of Law
Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law
Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center
Loyola University Chicago School Of Law
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
Maine Law
Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
McGeorge School of Law
Michigan State University College of Law
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
New England School of Law
New York Law School
North Carolina Central University School of Law
Northeastern University School of Law
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Notre Dame Law School
NYU School of Law
Penn State University Dickinson Law
Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law
Quinnipiac University School of Law
Rutgers Law School Camden
Rutgers Law School Newark
Saint Louis University School of Law
Santa Clara University School of Law
SMU Dedman School of Law
Southern Illinois University School of Law
Southwestern Law School
St. John’s University School of Law
Stanford Law School
Stetson University College of Law
Suffolk University Law School
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Texas A&M School of Law
Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Texas State University
The George Washington University Law School
The University of Chicago Law School
Tulane University Law School
UA Little Rock Bowen School of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
UCLA Law
UCSF Law
University at Buffalo School of Law
University of Alabama School of Law
University of Baltimore School of Law
University of Chicago Law School
University of Cincinnati School of Law
University of Colorado Law School
University of Connecticut School of Law
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
University of Florida Levin College of Law
University of Georgia School of Law
University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
University of Illinois College of Law
University of Iowa College of Law
University of Kansas School of Law
University of Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law
University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
University of Maine School of Law
University of Maryland Carey School of Law
University of Miami School of Law
University Of Minnesota Law School
University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law
University of New Mexico School of Law
University of North Carolina School of Law
University of North Texas Dallas College of Law
University of Oregon School of Law
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
University of Pittsburgh
University of Richmond
University of Texas School of Law
University of the District of Columbia
University of Virginia
University of Washington School of Law
UNT Dallas College of Law
USC Gould School of Law
Vermont Law and Graduate School
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Wake Forest University School of Law
Washburn University School of Law
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Washington University School of Law
Wayne State Law School
West Virginia University College of Law
Western State College of Law
Widener University School of Law
Willamette University College Of Law
William & Mary Law School
William H Bowen School of Law
Yale Law School