2013 Lavender Law Conference and Career Fair

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For more information, go here.

American Bar Association Division for Public Services Summer Clerkship

The American Bar Association Division for Public Services is offering a unique opportunity to spend the summer focusing on a substantive legal topic.  Their Summer 2013 ABA Public Services Clerkship is open to incoming 2Ls and 3Ls at ABA-accredited law schools.  The successful candidate must be a member of the ABA Law Student Division by the time the internship begins.  

The Public Services law clerk spends the summer researching and writing a publishable monograph on a substantive public interest law topic of concern to the Division and its committees.  If of suitable quality, we will release the monograph as a downloadable document from our web site. The APPLICATION DEADLINE for Summer 2013 is MAY 31, 2013.  Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, and a complete application is required in order to be considered. For details, go here.  

Summer Job Opportunity for "Cold Case" Fans

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Touro Law Center Student Awarded Monroe County Bar Association's Rochester Diversity Clerkship

Congratulations to Touro Law Center student Christopher Dor, who was awarded the Rochester Legal Diversity Clerkship through the Monroe County Bar Association.  This summer, Christopher will be working at Underberg & Kessler.  Congratulations, Christopher! 

Touro Law Center's Institute for Business, Law & Technology Offers Students Training in Hot Practice Areas

The Institute for Business, Law and Technology (IBLT) at Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center is dedicated to advancing the state of understanding about the intersection of technology, business, and the law both within and beyond the law school. Its mission is to improve the understanding of the legal issues of basic and developing technologies integral to the technology-driven business communities of manufacturing, electronic commerce, and high technology. 

IBLT is well situated to provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to participate in today's hot practice areas in business law and technology.

The Association of Corporate Counsel surveyed over 1,100 of the corporate Chief Legal Officers in the country about what the most important legal issues facing them today and likely to face them tomorrow, and the results are interesting  Almost uniformly, the CLOs identified the same three issues:  ethics and compliance, regulatory or government changes, and information privacy. "Data breaches and protection, however, moved up in importance for the coming year. While 68 percent said it was important over the last 12 months, 72 percent said it will be important to them over the next 12 months."

"Legal departments are still 'stretched thin' for resources, says [ACC CEO and president Veta] Richardson, but the survey did demonstrate 'some improvement in terms of the inside staffing measure.'   According to the results, 'nearly half of respondents’ law departments hired new staff over the past 12 months.' And among that group, 83 percent of departments hired in-house lawyers when they hired new staff. Another 64 percent of GCs said their law departments created new positions in the last year."

For more information about the survey, go here.

NYC Bar's Diversity Fellowship Program Awards Summer Jobs to Touro Law Center Students

Congratulations to Touro Law Center students Jeanine Joseph and Aliza Anwar for being awarded summer jobs through the New York City Bar Association's Diversity Fellowship Program.  Jeanine was placed with Perkins Coie and Aliza was placed with the New York City Law Department.  Great jobs!!

ABA Law Student Division: 2013 Spring Meeting

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The Central Park Five: A Film and Panel Discussion

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National LGBT Bar Association Prudential Summer Fellowship Program

The National LGBT Bar Association is pleased to partner with Prudential Financial, Inc. (Prudential) to provide a meaningful summer internship opportunity to a highly-motivated first-year law student.  Through this partnership, the National LGBT Bar Association will select a student to join the 2013 summer law intern class at Prudential for a 10-week internship at Prudential’s offices, for a stipend of approximately $10,000.  Internship positions will be located in the New Jersey tri-state area. A position may also be available in Dallas, TX. 

The application deadline is March 13, 2013.

For more information, go here.

The 6th Annual Touro Law Public Interest / Government Career Fair

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The New 2013 Public Policy Handbook Now Online

Touro Law Center subscribes to the University of Arizona College of Law's Public Policy Handbook, a valuable resource for those interested in careers in the field of public policy. The Handbook is still growing, and currently contains information about hundreds of employers who are offering internships and post-graduate fellowships. In addition to opportunities in the DC area and New York City (where a majority of public policy organizations are headquartered), the Handbook has expanded into 25 other states.

To access the Handbook, go here.

We are prohibited from placing the ID and password for access to the Handbook online. Go to the homepage of Jacob, Touro Law Center's Symplicity website, for this information.

Five Impediments (to overcome) When Working a Room

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Equal Justice Works Summer Corps is a Great Opportunity

The Equal Justice Works Summer Corps Program provides law students with the chance to spend their summer working on a legal project at a qualifying nonprofit public interest organization of their choosing. Summer Corps members expand the delivery of critically needed legal assistance in low-income and underserved communities across the country for veterans, homeowners facing foreclosure, disaster victims, and those facing other legal issues. Summer Corps is an AmeriCorps-funded program that will provide law students with the opportunity to earn a Legal AmeriCorps Education Award for dedicating their summer to a qualifying legal project at a nonprofit public interest organization. A Summer Corps applicant must be a current student at an Equal Justice Works member law school, such as Touro. Summer Corps Members may serve at a variety of organizations. to learn more about the Summer Corps and how to apply, go here.

The New York Bar Foundation Offers Law School Scholarships

The National Bar Foundation has announced law school scholarships, including practice area specific scholarships in Real Property and Elder Law. For more information about these opportunities, go here.

Touro Alum, Jacob Weinstein, Presents Paper at the 17th Annual Jewish Law Association International Conference

Dean Patricia Salkin attended (on her first day on the job) the Jewish Law Association's 17th International Conference yesterday where Professor Sam Levine chaired a plenary session and alum Jacob Weinstein '11 presented during the session.

(Touro Law Center alumnus Jacob Weinstein presenting an interesting discussion on eye witness testimony in criminal law matters under both U.S. and Jewish law at the Jewish Law Association Conference. He is working on a second paper on the duty to rescue...an affirmative duty under Jewish law, but not under U.S. common law.)

Incredible Diversity Programs for Law Students

Touro Law Center students should check out these incredible programs.  Please don't wait until the last minute to follow up on these opportunities.  Just sign up for them now!

Click on the links below to find out more about these programs.


PALS Annual Mock Interview and Resume Workshop for Law Students of Color.


Early-Bird Registration for Lavender Law Extended to August 3, 2012.

Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and New York Minority Bar Associations Second Annual Minority law Student Conference Day.

NYSBA Teams with Law Schools for New Internships

Touro Law Center and the New York State Bar Association are partnering in a new internship opportunity for our students.  The Real Property Law Section of the NYSBA is actively soliciting host law firms to serve as mentors for students from Touro and other law schools.  The law school will solicit resumes from interested students and forward them to the host firms for consideration.

Professor Lewis Silverman, Director of Externship Programs at Touro, commented:  “Primarily because of our suburban setting, many of our students have a keen interest in pursuing opportunities in real estate, both residential and commercial.  We think it is exciting that the New York State Bar Association has recognized the student interest and is actively seeking attorneys from the practicing bar to serve as mentors for law students.  Our incoming dean, Patricia Salkin, also has a special expertise in real property law, and I am sure that this partnership will serve our students well, both in their educational endeavors and in future employment opportunities.”

Students interested in any of these positions should submit their resumes to the Career Services Office.  The positions will be eligible for credit either in the Civil Practice Externship for the Spring, 2013 semester, or immediately as an Independent Externship in conjunction with a substantive law course.  For more information contact Prof. Lewis Silverman, Director of Externship Programs,LSilverman@tourolaw.edu.

Interesting Article: "Are social media making the resume obsolete?"

CNN has an interesting article about whether or not various forms of social media are making the traditional resume obsolete. We don't think the legal market is this far along, but it may be a sign of things to come. At the very least, the article shows the importance of being well informed about social media. To read the article, go here.

Opportunities with the New York Court System

If you are a new or experienced attorney interested in opportunities with the New York State Court System, go here to learn about them.

Equal Justice Works Post-Graduate Fellowship Application Period Now Open

Each year the Equal Justice Works fellowship competition selects qualified and passionate lawyers who have developed new and innovative legal projects that can impact lives and serve communities in desperate need of legal assistance. Depending on funding, EJW is able to provide between 40-50 two-year fellowships annually. Fellows receive a competitive salary, generous loan repayment assistance, connections to their prominent sponsors, participation in trainings, and additional support during their two-year tenure. For additional information about this great program, go here.