SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With the goal of promoting diversity within the legal profession, the Sacramento Region Diversity Career Fair is being launched to connect employers with diverse legal candidates for future or current job openings, announced the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California, the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, the UC Davis School of Law, and the Federal Bar Association Sacramento Chapter.

The Diversity Career Fair is the first legal career fair in the Sacramento region with an online platform where employers can post legal jobs, and law students and attorneys can submit applications. The Diversity Career Fair will also provide employers, law students, and attorneys with the opportunity to connect in person, and will include a panel discussion providing perspectives on practicing law as a diverse attorney. 

“Promoting and encouraging diversity in the legal profession is critical to reflecting and serving our diverse community,” said U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert. “The United States Attorney’s Office is committed to promoting and encouraging diversity, and we are proud to partner with our law schools and bar associations to work towards achieving this goal.”

“McGeorge School of Law is proud to be partnering with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, UC Davis School of Law, and the Federal Bar Association on this Diversity Career Fair,” said Michael Hunter Schwartz, Dean of McGeorge School of Law. “As a law school engaged in the critically important work to become an antiracist law school, we are excited to be a part of this group of institutions that is training and employing the next generations of attorneys who match the growing diversity of California and the nation.”

“Diversity, equity and inclusion are central to our mission at Martin Luther King Jr. Hall,” UC Davis School of Law Dean Kevin R. Johnson said. “We are equally committed to assisting UC Davis Law students with finding jobs in the legal field. We are so pleased to partner with so many outstanding local bar organizations, employers and judges on the Sacramento Region Diversity Career Fair, which will provide unique opportunities for our students to meet with employers from different sectors who value diversity as highly as we do.”

The Diversity Career Fair is co-sponsored by all of the affinity bar associations in Sacramento, including the Asian/Pacific Bar Association of Sacramento (ABAS), Cruz Reynoso Bar Association, Leonard M. Friedman Bar Association, Sacramento Filipino American Lawyers Association (SacFALA), South Asian Bar Association (SABA), SacLegal Sacramento’s LGBTQ+ Bar Association, Wiley Manuel Bar Association (WMBA), Women Lawyers of Sacramento (WLS), and the Sacramento County Bar Association.

The Sacramento Region Diversity Career Fair will be held on February 26, 2022 at McGeorge School of Law. For more information, visit fbasacramento.org/sacramentodiversitycareerfair.

For more information about McGeorge School of Law, visit law.pacific.edu.

Media Contacts: Ashley Golledge, Director of Marketing and Communications, agolledge@pacific.edu, 916.325.4687; and Jon Wainwright, Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications, jwainwright@pacific.edu, 916.520.7479.