OSCAR provides law school career services staff with law school administrator (LSA) user accounts. LSAs can use OSCAR to stay informed of current law clerk and staff attorney openings and recruitment practices; assist applicants and recommenders with law clerk and staff attorney recruitment; upload letters of recommendation on behalf of recommenders to expedite the application process; and utilize unique reports to track and manage applicants, recommenders, and hiring data.
This video gives you a detailed walkthrough of all key functions in OSCAR.
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This video gives an overview of some of the new LSA homepage.
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In this recorded webinar, we demonstrate the enhancements to OSCAR added in December 2021 for law school administrators, applicants, and recommenders.
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As an LSA user in OSCAR, you have access to a wide variety of system functions pertaining to applicants, recommenders, judges, staff attorney offices, and basic account administration. LSAs can perform various actions in OSCAR depending on their level of user rights, including the areas outlined below.
In OSCAR, LSAs maintain their law school profile and law school dean information visible to applicants, judges, and staff attorney offices. As an LSA, you can also create and manage additional accounts for users within your law school, as well as manage user rights, passwords, and account information.
LSAs have access to a directory in OSCAR containing judge and staff attorney lists, including all online available judicial clerkship and staff attorney office positions. You can search for judges, staff attorney offices, and available positions based on a variety of specific criteria, as well as save and share your searches with applicants. LSAs can also download files of judges and staff attorney office information.
LSAs are granted administrative functions to help students navigate the federal clerkship and staff attorney application process in OSCAR. As administrators, LSAs can upload application documents and submit applications on behalf of applicants, check the status of recommendation requests, and use the "log in as" feature to log in directly to an applicant's account. LSAs can also share saved searches for relevant positions with specific applicants and email applicants directly in OSCAR.
Recommendation letters are required for most applications in OSCAR. The LSA's ability to navigate the recommendation process in OSCAR can help your students immensely. As an LSA, you can view the status of all recommendation requests, access account information for recommenders, upload recommendation letters on behalf of recommenders, and use the "log in as" feature to log in directly to a recommender's account.
In addition to all the features outlined above, LSAs have access to other administrative functions that may be useful. Included in this is the ability to run predefined reports containing statistics on applicants, recommenders, and judges from the current hiring season. Other features include certifying your class rank system, sending emails directly within OSCAR, and using the "log in as" feature.