Reciprocity Policy

USC Gould School of Law is in the heart of a large metropolitan area with a highly competitive legal market. As such, it has become a popular choice for law school students and graduates who wish to use the resources of the Law School's Career Services Office (CSO) in their job searches. Our reciprocity policy is designed to fulfill our primary responsibility to serve USC Gould students and graduates, while still offering employment information to job seekers from other ABA-accredited law schools. Requests for use of the Law School's CSO from persons enrolled at non-ABA accredited law schools will be at the discretion of the USC Gould CSO.

1. SERVICES are available only on a one-to-one basis. We will allow one non-USC Gould student or graduate to use our resources for every one USC Gould student or graduate granted reciprocity at the requestor’s law school. Note that access will not be permitted to USC Gould’s CSO if the requesting student or alumnus/a is currently receiving visitation privileges from another Southern California area law school. Reciprocity services do not include access to password-protected areas of USC Gould School of Law web pages, participation in on- or off-campus recruitment programs, or counseling services. Walk-in or phone requests for reciprocity cannot be honored (see below). The CSO reserves the right to revoke privileges extended to an individual at any time. Additionally, the CSO reserves the right to modify our Reciprocity Policy at any time, without advance notice.
   
   
2. RECIPROCITY is granted to Students/Alumni of other law schools for a period of one month on the following basis:
   1) Access to online job listings will be for the length of time remaining in the USC Gould CSO reciprocity access period.
   2) If fraudulent use of online job listing access occurs, the CSO may revoke student privileges immediately, and may deny all future reciprocity requests from the student’s law school.
   
   
3. REQUESTS for reciprocity services must be made in writing by the student's/ graduate's law school Career Services Office to careers@law.usc.edu. We will respond via email when the request is either granted or denied. An e-mail address for the student/graduate must be provided.
   
   
4. ACCESS to services is effective July 2 to August 31, and November 2 to December 31.
   
   
5. SUSPENSION of services is effective January 2 to July 1, and September 1 to November 1. Reciprocity requests will not be considered during these periods.