Program: Deconstructing the NYS Bar Examination

The New York County Lawyers Association is hosting an important program:

Deconstructing the New York State Bar Examination

In this program, you will learn:

- How to answer difficult questions.
- What NOT to include in your essay answers.
- Which character and fitness issues could affect your admission to the Bar!

Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: At the House of the Association, 14 Vesey Street, NY, NY

Register here.

This program is FREE to NYCLA Members only. Nonmembers pay a $25 registration fee, which includes a student membership to the Association.

NYS Bar Association Free Webinar: How to Find a Public Service Job

The New York State Bar Association presents a free webcast:

Lawyers in Transition - Finding a Public Service Job 

Monday, April 23, 2012

12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)

Register online

Panelists will discuss strategies and techniques for seeking, networking and finding a position in local, state or federal government and what to expect when you get there.

Featuring:

Christopher J. Muller, Esq.
Counsel to the Commissioner
Columbia County Department of Social Services

Lillian M. Moy, Esq.
Executive Director, Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, Inc.

Henry M. Greenberg, Esq.
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP

Wayne G. Hawley, Esq.
Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel, Conflicts of Interest Board

This program is part of the New York State Bar Association's Committee onLawyers in Transition series of free, live webcasts on Career Development to help lawyers better manage their careers during this tough economy. If you are looking to make a career change, leave your current job, or transition back to the workforce after time away from the profession, the Committee on Lawyers in Transition is here to help. Designed to help attorneys in transition, the career development series of programs offer advice and resources to increase the odds of finding rewarding work.

NYC Bar Program: Careers in Technology Law

The New York City Bar Association presents:

Careers in Technology Law: A Program for Law Students and Recent Law Graduates

Technology has become ubiquitous, as have legal issues that involve technology, including intellectual property protection and licensing, data privacy, and communications. More and more, the law is interacting with technology, and tomorrow’s lawyers need to be aware of the multitude of ways the two intersect. This panel will discuss what careers exist in technology law, what those practices entail, how to get involved, and how one can prepare for a career in technology law.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
House of the Association, 42 West 44^th Street
Registration:  There is no charge for this program, however registration is necessary.

Speakers:
DEREK BAMBAUER, Associate Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
JULIA CHENG, Founder, CyberlawStudio
NATHAN POULSEN, Chadbourne & Parke
GLEN WESTERBACK, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
AARON WILLIAMSON, Counsel, Software Freedom

Sponsored by:
Committee on Law Student Perspectives, Jessica Silverstein, Chair

Members of the Association and their guests are welcome to attend.

The National LGBT Bar Association's Writing Competitions

The National LGBT Bar Association is now accepting submissions for the Michael Greenberg Writing Competition and the International Association of LGBT Judges Writing Competition. For more information, go here.

New York County District Attorney's Office Career and Internship Recruitment Fair

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Equal Justice Works Summer Corps Provides Summer Funding

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National LGBT Bar Association/Prudential Summer Internship

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 2012 summer law intern class at Prudential for a 10-week internship at Prudential’s offices with a stipend of approximately $10,000. Internship positions will be located in the New Jersey tri-state area. A position may be available in Dallas, Texas.

Internship Responsibilities:

The summer intern will have the opportunity to work with attorneys who support the broad reach of the Prudential businesses. The summer intern will also participate in the summer intern training program, which includes programs presented by Prudential attorneys that highlight different areas of the business and the legal department. Each intern will be paired with an attorney who will serve as a mentor during the program and will provide guidance on projects. The summer intern may also have an opportunity to practice interviewing skills, prepare presentations and shadow attorneys on various projects. The summer internship will run between June 4th, 2012 and August 10th, 2012. The summer intern will be paid a stipend of approximately $10,000, which shall accrue and be paid on an hourly basis.

Qualifications:

Each applicant must be a member of the National LGBT Bar Association and must be a law student enrolled at an ABA-accredited law school and have successfully completed the first year of law school and be scheduled for graduation in spring 2014 (full-time students) or spring 2015 (part-time students). Applicants must have a minimum 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale or the equivalent. The ideal applicant will have financial or business-related experience or interest.

How to Apply:

To apply, you must submit a cover letter, resume, a list of three references and a copy of your transcript to:

Prudential@LGBTbar.org

Please write “Prudential Internship” in the subject line of all correspondence. All materials must be received by 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday, March 16th, 2012. Finalist shall be selected and notified on or before March 31st, 2012.

PALS Hosts a Career Panel on In-House Opportunities

PALS is hosting:

Pulling Back the Legal Curtain: The Vast Opportunities as In-House Counsel Career Forum

on Thursday, January 19, 2012, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30p.m., at Kaye Scholer LLP, 425 Park Avenue, New York, NY.

Come and discover the many areas of practice for attorneys In-House. You will meet and hear from lawyers representing different companies and various practice groups. Our panelists will share with you their perspectives on working as attorneys in a corporate setting.

LISSA BOURJOLLY
Nickelodeon
Counsel, Consumer Products

JANET C. CASTELLANO
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Senior Counsel, HR Law Group

STANLEY PIERRE-LOUIS
Viacom Inc.
Vice President and Associate General Counsel,Intellectual Property & Content Protection

Additional Panelists To Be Announced

Moderator:

JOSEPH DRAYTON
Counsel, Kaye Scholer LLP

Current Law Students will be able to obtain application materials for the 2012 Diversity & Inclusion Summer Legal Internship Program at Bristol-Myers Squibb. These paid summer positions are expected to be at Bristol Myers Squibb's central New Jersey offices.

Business Casual Attire

Please RSVP here by Tuesday, January 17, 2012.

The New York Bar Foundation's Minority Fellowship

The New York Bar Foundation is sponsoring a Minority Fellowship, funded through the generosity of the Commercial & Federal Litigation Section of the NY State Bar Association. The Fellowship provides a $6,000 stipend for the summer of 2012 and a valuable opportunity for a student interested in commercial litigation to participate in the work of a Commercial Division Justice in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan.

Applications must be postmarked by January 31. The fellowship will be awarded at a festive gala celebration on April 24th at Lincoln Center in conjunction with the presentation of the Hon. George Bundy Smith Pioneer Award to a distinguished member of the New York bench.

For more information, go here.

Labor and Employment Law Event at New York Law School

Touro Law Center students interested in labor and employment law are invited to an event that will be held at New York Law School on Feb. 7, 2012 from 4-7 p.m. Former chairwoman to the National Labor Relations Board, Wilma Lieberman, will address the state of collective bargaining in the United States as well as the upheaval surrounding the Board's latest decisions.

Any interested student should email Erica Edwards-O'neal so that she can inform NYLS that you will be attending.

Free Webinar Series: The Summer Public Interest Job Search: Expert Tips on Cover Letters, Resumes, Interviewing, and Networking

This two-part webinar series, cosponsored by NALP and Equal Justice Works, will provide law students with insight on the key elements of the summer public-interest job application process. Attorneys with years of application review experience will highlight do’s and don’ts; explain how and why public interest application materials may substantively differ from law firm materials; and explore the dynamics of personal interactions in interviews and networking situations.

Part One: Wednesday, 1/25/12 at 3pm Eastern – Best Practices in Drafting Cover Letters and Resumes. Reserve your Webinar seat now!

Presenters:

Steve Grumm, Director of Public Service Initiatives, NALP
Stuart Smith, Director of Legal Recruitment, New York City Law Department
Nicole Vikan, Assistant Director for Public Interest & Government Careers, Georgetown University Law Center

Part Two: Wednesday, 2/1/12 at 12pm (Noon) Eastern – Best Practices in Interviewing and In-person Networking. Reserve your Webinar seat now!

Presenters:

Nita Mazumder, Program Manager for Law School Relations, Equal Justice Works
Nicole Simmons, Career Counselor, The University of Texas School of Law
David Zisser, Associate Counsel, The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

The New 2012 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 231 employers who are offering 256 internship and 39 fellowship programs. 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.

Joint Minority Bar Summer Judicial Internship Program Accepting Applications until December 30

The Association of Judges of Hispanic Heritage (“AJHH”), the Asian American Bar Association of New York (“AABANY”), the Asian American Law Fund of New York (“AALFNY”), the Dominican Bar Assocation ("DBA"), the Metropolitan Black Bar Association (“MBBA”), the Puerto Rican Bar Association (“PRBA”), and the South Asian Bar Association (“SABANY”) have joined together to form the Joint Minority Judicial Internship Program to offer law students who have completed at least one year of law school the opportunity to continue their legal education as summer judicial interns in New York and New Jersey metropolitan area courthouses. Judicial internships are exceptional learning opportunities that offer tremendous insight into the process of judicial decision-making. They offer an opportunity to strengthen analytic and legal writing skills.

For more information about the Program and to apply, go here.

Registration for RebLaw 2012 is now open!

Who: Proud-to-Be-Rebels

What: The Eighteenth Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference. The RebLaw Conference is an annual, student-run conference that brings together practitioners, law students, and community advocates from around the country to discuss innovative, progressive approaches to law and social change.

The Conference will have nearly two dozen panels and workshops, including: *Enforcing Labor Rights in a Transnational World * Mobilizing for Sexual and Reproductive Justice * Strategic Lawyering for Collective Entities: Models, Methods and Movement Building * Fighting the Monopoly on Medicine * Fallout from the Wal-Mart Decision * Crime, But Not Punishment: Restorative Justice As An Alternative to Criminal Prosecution in Domestic & International Contexts * The Work JDs Do in Education Reform * Race and Voting * Prison Re-Entry * Sovereignty, Identity, and Genocide: U.S. Law and Native Bodies * Transnational LGBT Advocacy * Confronting Big Food * Juvenile Justice * Rethinking the Public Interest Law Market * Union organizing * Environmental Justice * and more!

Where: Yale Law School, New Haven, CT.

When: Friday, February 17–Saturday, February 18, 2012

Cost: Standard registration is $30. Registration is free for members of the Yale, UConn, New Haven, and Quinnipiac communities.

Register here.

Check out their Facebook page for regular updates. And join the conversation at the Reblawg!

Monroe County Bar Association's Diversity Summer Clerkship Program

The Monroe County Bar Association's Legal Diversity Clerkship Program is co-sponsored by the MCBA (through its Diversity Committee), the Rochester Black Bar Association (RBBA), and the Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys (GRAWA). This program seeks to increase diversity in the legal profession in the Rochester area by attracting qualified first-year law students from historically under-represented groups within the legal profession, including racial and ethnic minorities, to work in paid positions with Rochester area law firms and other legal employers.

For more information about this program, go here.

The Peggy Browning Fund Labor Law Fellowship Program

The mission of the Peggy Browning Fund is to educate and inspire the next generation of advocates for workplace justice. Through fellowships, workers’ rights conferences, networking and other programs, the Fund provides unique opportunities for law students to work for economic and social justice.

The Peggy Browning Fellowship Program provides stipends to law students who dedicate their summer to advancing the cause of workers' rights by working for labor unions, worker centers, the U.S. Department of Labor, union-side law firms and other nonprofit organizations. It is a ten-week summer fellowship available to 1st and 2nd year law students intended to encourage them to consider labor law as a viable career choice. 

For more information and to apply for the fellowship online, go here.  The deadline is January 13, 2012.

New York City Bar Association Diversity Fellowship Information Sessions

The New York City Bar Association's Diversity Fellowship Program offers 1FT and 2PT students from underrepresented populations a unique summer employment opportunity in outstanding law firms and corporate law departments. CSO will hold informational sessions about the application process for this prestigious and highly competitive program on Monday, November 28, 12:30 p.m., Room 307, and 5:30 p.m., Room 310. Applications will be available in CSO beginning Monday, November 28th after 1:30 p.m. For additional details, contact Erica Edwards-O'Neal, Director of Career Services.

Joint Internship Diversity Project Sponsors Summer Federal Judicial Internships

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Summer Funding: NYSBA and ABA Offer Environmental Law Minority Fellowships

The New York State Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section and the American Bar Association on Environment, Energy and Resources are once again offering minority fellowships for the summer of 2012. Successful applicants will receive a $6,000 stipend to spend the summer of 2012 (10 weeks minimum) working on legal matters for a government environmental agency or public interest environmental organization in New York State; an Invitation to the annual meeting of the New York State Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section and assignment of a mentor from the environmental bar. First and second-year full-time and part-time, and third-year part-time minority group members are eligible to apply.


Applications must contain a completed application form (download from the NYSBA website); a resume; an undergraduate transcript; a law school transcript (except first-year law students); a two page essay describing applicant’s interest in environmental issues and reasons for wanting to participate in the Fellowship; and two letters of recommendation. Finalists will be interviewed in New York City. The application deadline has been extended to December 7th, but if you are interested send your application in earlier!

Completed applications should be mailed to:

New York State Bar Association, Environmental Law Section, One Elk Street, Albany, NY 12207.

Free Webinar: Get Help with Your Job Search using Social Media

LexisNexis is hosting a a free webcast about using social media in your job search efforts:  Get Help with Your Job Search using Social Media.

How are you using social media right now? If you're not using it to present yourself in a professional manner and/or network with potential employers, you'll want to attend our webcast entitled Using Social Media to Aid Your Job Search.

On Thursday, November 10, LexisNexis will host a panel of experts to show you how to use social media to create your own "social brand" in the legal profession, and how to use that brand to promote yourself to prospective employers. The panel includes:

• Tim Tyrell-Smith, a popular blogger and author on career strategy. Tim has written two career books entitled 30 Ideas and Headstrong. He is also a regular contributor to U.S. News and World Reports. He will speak about using social media to create a "social brand."

• Catherine Sanders Reach, the Director of the Legal Technology Resource Center at the American Bar Association (ABA). Catherine has presented to many law students on the use of social media and will explain how it applies to the legal profession.

• Daniel A. Schwartz, a partner at Pullman & Comley LLC and author of the Independent Connecticut Employment Law blog. Dan uses social media to grow his own legal career and will show you how he uses it so effectively.

As a bonus, the first 1,000 students to attend and complete the email survey at the end of the webcast will receive a complimentary membership to the ABA's Law Student Division.

Register for the November 10th webcast and start using social media to improve your chances of finding the job you're looking for. You'll also receive 200 LexisNexis Reward points for attending the webcast.