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Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
A Career Services Office Publication
The Corner
January 16, 2007
In This Issue Welcome to the New Touro Law Center
Welcome to the New Well, we made it! Woohoo!! Can you with individual work stations, three
Touro Law Center……………… 1 believe this building?!? Have you seen interview rooms, bookshelves for
Pursue Your Dreams, Manage the library circulation desk? resource materials and file cabinets
Your Expectations ....................1
Contemporary yet elegant. And the new galore, and offices in which civilized
dining hall? We all have high hopes for discussions about career planning can
So You Want to Work in the new caterer. The auditorium? Trial take place.
New York City ...........................2 classrooms? The bookstore? So much
more. And our little neck of the woods, Please stop by to take a look at our
Law Firm Databases ................2
the Career Services Office, on the third new space. Just tell Cookie that you are
The Career Guru floor behind the wall of glass to the right on a tour and she will be happy to point
is in the House...........................3 as you get off the elevator. We love it the way. Poke your head in here and
here. We no longer bump into each there to get a feel for the place, and
Hot Jobs ....................................3 other, and you do not have to walk become familiar with our offices (make
Programs and Resources..........3 through Brett’s “hallway” to get to Erica’s an appointment while you’re at it).
office. Life is good.
International Law CSO looks forward to seeing you
Web Resources.........................4 The new CSO has a resource room soon, and welcome to the new Touro
(you can see it through the glass walls) Law Center!
Outstanding TLC Alums ............4
Did You Do It Yet?.....................5
Blawg of the Month....................5
Pursue Your Dreams, Manage Your Expectations
By Brett Gilbert, Assistant Dean for Career Services
The Public Interest Page ...........6
How many times does a person have Many students come to law
And More! to hear, “You can’t do that, don’t even school with dreams of a particular
bother” before he or she begins to kind of legal career. Some of you
Important may want a government career,
others a career in a small to mid-size
Website Links law firm on Long Island, some seek
to open their own firm, others see
NYU Job Fair themselves practicing in New York
City at large law firms or with a
Career Services Office different kind of employer, some
Job Listings seek to practice out of state entirely,
while still others dream of being
Martindale-Hubbell
public interest lawyers. These
Law Firm Directory dreams should be nurtured by our
PSLawNet office through honest one-on-one
discussions.
Directory of In-House
Legal Departments When you meet with one of us,
The Government Honors & believe it? Probably not as many times we will talk with you to develop a
as we would like to think. In any event, plan to obtain your dream job. We
Internship Handbook
(use “fig” and “newton2” for it is not the kind of thing you should will talk about how best to prepare
ID and password) hear when you are planning your yourself while in law school, and we
career, and you should not and will not
Internships USA hear it from a counselor at CSO. continued on page 4
(use “widget” and “contract” for
ID and password)
Touro Law Center The Corner January 16, 2007 Page 2
Bar Association Our New Firm Databases for Long Island and NYC
Links You know how bad it is to use “Dear firm databases you can use to find the
Hiring Partner,” “Dear Sir or Madam,” or correct person to whom to address
Local Bar Associations: “To Whom it May Concern” in a cover your cover letters. The New York City
letter when applying to an employer. It is database contains over 1400 firms,
Suffolk County Bar and is sortable by firm size. We
Association provide you with the name and title of
Suffolk County Women’s the firm’s hiring person, the address of
Bar Association the firm, and even the firm’s website, if
it has one. The Long Island databases
Nassau County Bar are divided by firm size, and we are
Association continuing to expand them.
Remember, for very small firms,
New York City Bar addressing your letter to a named
Association partner will usually get it in the right
New York County hands.
Lawyers Association
The best way to use these
Queens County Bar databases is after you have done a
Association practice area search using the
the kiss of death, a sure way to get your Martindale Hubbell database on
Brooklyn Bar Association cover letter and resume deep-sixed. martindale.com. Once you have your
Bronx County Bar Sometimes, however, the Martindale targeted list from Martindale, you can
Association Hubbell website or the firm’s website will compare it with our databases to find
not list the appropriate person in the firm the names of those in charge of hiring
New York State Bar to whom you should send your for the firms on your list. For more
Association documents. What should you do? information about this process and to
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual receive our databases, see a counselor
The Career Services Office now has at CSO.
and Transgender Law
Association of Greater New
York
So You Want to Work in New York City
National Bar
Associations: While most new graduates decide to student’s true interest in working in the
live and practice law on Long Island, City after graduation. An employer
American Bar Association
many students intend to work in New looks at different factors to get an idea
National Bar Association York City. Since most of their peers do of whether or not a student will stay
not share their goals, these city-bound
Hispanic National Bar students may not always hear the right
Association kind of encouragement about their
Local bar associations aspirations. Their goals, however, are
are the most valuable, entirely legitimate, and these students
as you have a greater should understand that there is a path
opportunity to attend to take in order to find a legal
placement in the City upon graduation.
meetings, meet
attorneys, and utilize the
It is the rare student who can find
association’s resources. the time and energy to take a fall or with a job for a while (most employers
Lawyers become spring semester job in the City. The try to avoid high turnover), and a
members of bar commute can be long, and, depending proven commitment to the employer’s
associations, and so upon the student’s class schedule, a locale is important.
should you. Become a student may not be available
student member, join a realistically to work a sufficient number City-bound students should meet
of hours. with a counselor early to develop a
committee, attend
functions, and your personal career plan that will put them
A summer job in the City, however, on the road to finding that ideal City
resume will look even particularly a second-year summer job, job.
more like a lawyer’s is very important to establish a
resume.
Touro Law Center The Corner January 16, 2007 Page 3
Programs and Resources Hot Jobs
New Boardroom Speaker Series at
TLC: Student – Alumni Roundtable Summer Internships: The
Discussions; First Session: U.S. Equal Employment
Bankruptcy Law, Wednesday, Opportunity Commission
January 31, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., in the (EEOC), New York District
Alumni Boardroom; Invited Office, is seeking law student
practitioners: Harold Somer ’83 and interns for the summer of
Randy Schaefer ’92; Limited seating – The Career Guru 2007. The EEOC is the
federal agency responsible for
Sign up now with Kristin Matthews, is in the House enforcing federal laws
Director of Alumni Relations, Room 404;
light refreshments will be served. prohibiting discrimination in
the workplace based on race,
Dear Career Guru: color, religion, national origin,
sex, age, and disability status.
I will be graduating this May and I
Law student interns assist with
am getting a little anxious about my
litigation and litigation
job search. A few people I know
have their jobs lined up, but when development. Assignments
can I expect mine to fall into place? may include research and
Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my writing relating to employment
only hope. discrimination and federal
practice issues such as
- Frightened yet Excited discovery, trial practice and
on Eastview Drive evidence; participating in
interviewing claimants or
Dear Frightened: witnesses; drafting discovery
demands or responses; and
I understand your plight. It is the attending depositions and
plight of many throughout our land court conferences. Although
2006-2007 Federal Internship and who face graduation in only a matter applications will be accepted
Honors Handbook: This online of months. You rightfully seek until February 16, students are
handbook is a great resource to learn succor, and I wish to provide it. encouraged to apply ASAP.
of summer and post-graduate legal For more information about
opportunities in all federal agencies. Okay, here’s the deal. A very this opportunity, go to CSO’s
Some agencies have earlier small number of students obtain
deadlines, so please review this listings here.
post-graduate jobs during the fall
handbook sooner rather than later. To semester. A larger number find Law Clerk: McBreen &
access the handbook, go here and them during what is known as the Kopko is seeking a spring
use “fig” as an ID and “newton2” as a Spring Recruiting Season, the time intern at the Jericho, Long
password. between February and June. Still Island branch of this national
more graduates find jobs after firm that focuses on aviation
The 2007 New York State Bar graduation. The question you are law, corporate and commercial
Association Annual Meeting: The probably asking is, “Is there any way matters, real estate issues,
annual meeting will take place to tell when I may obtain my job?” trusts and estates,
Monday, January 22 through matrimonial, personal injury,
Saturday, January 27 at the Marriott The answer depends on a number and regulatory law. The intern
Marquis in New York City. Among of factors. Larger employers can will perform the duties of a first
other things, the meeting will host usually hire sooner because they
year attorney. The ideal
over 40 continuing legal education then can plan ahead, except public
candidate should be in the top
classes on various legal subjects. interest and government offices,
which often have to wait until budget of his or her class and capable
One program is entitled “Still Miles to of performing legal research,
Go: Understanding the Special information is finalized. Smaller
litigation firms often need to know drafting legal documents, and
Experiences, Challenges, and Career participating in pre-trial
Trajectories Faced by Women of that you have passed the bar exam
before they hire you. It really discovery and litigation.
Color in the Law.” This program is on Salary will be commensurate
depends. See a counselor to talk
Monday, January 22, from 2:00 - 5:30 with experience. For more
about the kind of job you are looking
p.m. For more information about the information, go here.
for and when that kind of employer
annual meeting, go here. typically hires.
Touro Law Center The Corner January 16, 2007 Page 4
Profiles of Pursue Your Dreams, Manage Your Expectations
Outstanding (Continued from page 1)
TLC Alums will discuss the kinds of opportunities A Career Services Office can lose
that are out there after you graduate. an otherwise good reputation by failing
We will strive to leave you with a to recognize and nurture student
clear idea of what you have to do to career goals. It is not our mission to be
get yourself in a good position to the ones to tell you that you must settle
accomplish your goal. for this or that opportunity. Rather, we
should listen to you as you tell us what
Effective career counseling does you want to do, and then we should
not end there, however. While we plan together to get you there.
will plan with you the most direct
The planning that is required to
develop multiple paths to your dream
Spencer R. Horn, a 2005 job cannot be completed overnight,
graduate of Touro Law however. While I and the people I
Center, is an associate at work with can reach out to you, the
McBreen & Kopko, where he decision to come in to speak with us
practices aviation law, remains with you. I believe that
commercial and regulatory students should have at least one
law, international law, and serious, one-on-one sit-down with a
commercial litigation. He counselor every semester. Many
received his Bachelor of Arts students see us more frequently.
Degree in Psychology and
Business Law from the Look for some interesting CSO
University of Miami in 2002, programming this semester, including
and a Master of Business “Class of 2007: Your Turn at Bat;”
Administration Degree in path to your dream job, we will also
talk about expectations and how to “Looking for Opportunities in New York
Aviation Management from City and Beyond,” How to be an
Dowling College in 2006. manage them. Like a doctor
explaining the likelihood of success Effective Summer Intern,” “Resume
of an operation, you should be able and Cover Letter Workshops,” “Fall
Mr. Horn is a licensed pilot On-Campus Interviewing and Post-
to plan your life based upon real-
in both powered and glider Graduate Judicial Clerkships,” and
world facts. Therefore, once we plan
aircraft and is experienced in several more. We hold these
the most direct path to your dream,
flying conventional gear programs because there is information
we will talk about alternative roads to
aircraft. He is a Panel you need to know in order to expand
the same goal. This Plan B, Plan C,
Attorney for the Aircraft your opportunities and to increase your
and maybe even Plan D will help you
Owners and Pilots chance of success.
just in case Plan A does not work
Association legal services
out. We should not take our eyes off
plan and is active in many So, the next time you meet with a
the prize, but we will talk about
public service organizations CSO counselor, be sure to express
different paths to obtain it. Anything
in New York State, including yourself about your dream job. We will
less would be doing you a terrible
New York Search and work on Plan A through Plan D so you
disservice.
Rescue and the Ramapo are prepared to get to your goal.
Valley Ambulance Corps.
While in law school, Mr. International Law Web Resources
Horn interned with McBreen
& Kopko, the U.S. The American Society of International Law (ASIL)
Department of Homeland
Security and the Department HierosGamos International Law Directory
of Transportation of the FAA.
He is licensed to practice law Cornell’s Foreign & International Law Sources on the Internet
in New York State and the
federal courts, and he is a
The United Nations Website on International Law
member of the Nassau The ABA Section on International Law
Country Bar Association.
The New York State Bar Association International Law and Practice Section
Touro Law Center The Corner January 16, 2007 Page 5
NYU Job Fair: Interview Protocol Did You Do It Yet?
So, you have uploaded your resume the letter to CSO AND a copy to
to various employers for the NYU Job the Public Interest Law Center at Take out your resume
Fair. Good job! Now what? Well, NYU. and look at the law school
keep using your ID and password to entry. It probably reads:
log on to the Job Fair website, because Student Sign-Ups for empty “Touro College Jacob D.
Fuchsberg Law Center,
you will be notified through the website interview slots will begin at 3:00
Huntington, NY.” At one
if employers have granted you an p.m. on Monday, February 5,
time, this may have been
interview. and end at 3:00 p.m. on
all well and good, but no
Wednesday, February 7. The more. As you walk
The deadline for organizations to Fair will take place on Thursday through the law school,
complete resume review and identify and Friday, February 8 - 9 at look around. Does this
the students they would like to NYU School of Law. look like the law school in
interview is 3:00 p.m. on Monday, Huntington? If it does, are
January 22. Some employers will be Learn How to “Table Talk”! you wondering why you
advising students sooner, though, so are all by yourself?
begin looking now. Many employers at the NYU
Job Fair will have representatives Make the change now
Should you wish to cancel any at tables with whom you may chat. before you forget. Change
interviews that have been scheduled, This is a great facetime “Huntington” to “Central
you must follow a cancellation protocol. opportunity. Islip” and you will be good
Student cancellation of scheduled to go.
interviews are due by 3:00 p.m. on Coming soon: Tom Maligno will
Friday, February 2. Any cancellations host a program that will give you
after this date are "Emergency" all of the essential secrets on how Blawg
cancellations. By 3:00 p.m. on Friday,
February 23, students with
to use table talk effectively. Watch
the new Info Screens for further of the Month
"Emergency" cancellations must write information about this program.
a letter of explanation and apology to In the last issue of The
these employers and provide a copy of Corner, we talked about
Blawg (www.blawg.org),
an incredible collection of
A Very Good 1L Summer legal blogs, or blawgs, in
one easy-to-access
Writing Competition Securities Internships location. In this issue, we
focus on one particular
The American College of Trial The Securities and Exchange blawg.
Lawyers, founded in 1950 and Commission’s Summer Honors Law
dedicated to maintaining and Program gives law students the InternetCases is a
improving the standards of trial opportunity to become acquainted with blawg dedicated to legal
practice, the administration of the regulation of securities markets and developments involving
justice, and the ethics of the the Internet and new
careers within the Commission.
profession, is sponsoring an essay technologies. The
Students work for ten weeks during the
contest for law students on the topic blawgger behind
summer at the Commission’s
of Judicial Independence and the InternetCases is Evan
Washington, DC headquarters or in Brown, an attorney in
Separation of Powers Doctrine. The one of its 11 regional and district
first place winner will receive Chicago practicing in the
offices nationwide, including New York areas of intellectual
$10,000 and the second place prize
City. property and technology
is $5,000. Essays should be
approximately 5,000 words in length, law. You may browse by
and submissions are due by March Although the application period for categories, such as First
1, 2007. 2Ls is now closed, the SEC is currently Amendment or patents,
accepting applications from 1Ls until and the blawg also
Go here for further information. February 2, 2007. The application contains an archive of all
website is here. postings in reverse
For other competitions, go here, chronological order.
here, and especially here. Check it out!
Touro Law Center The Corner January 16, 2007 Page 6
Summer
THE PUBLIC INTEREST PAGE
Internship
Opportunities Fellowships PSLawNet.org
Equal Justice Works
Are Good Things The Essential Facts
has partnered with
Fellowships are post-graduate jobs PSLawNet is an incredible job search
AmeriCorps to bring 350 of limited duration, typically one or two resource that contains a comprehensive
law students the years, with public interest database of over 12,000 public interest
opportunity to spend organizations. Fellows are paid for organizations, public interest law firms, and
their summer serving their work, which generally focuses on government agencies located throughout the
communities across the a particular project or practice area. United States and the world. Touro Law
country and gaining Center subscribes to the service and, as a
critical legal skills and PSLawNet serves as a result, Touro students may access the
experience. Each 2007 clearinghouse for information and database free of charge. Students log on to
Summer Corps member resources on over 300 legal and law- the PSLawNet website and self register to
will serve a minimum of related post-graduate fellowships, and create their own profile.
300 hours at a nonprofit the preparation and application
public interest process that leads to success. In The database has two search features:
organization of their addition to cataloguing fellowship (1) “organization searches,” which yield lists
choice and earn a postings in a searchable database of of organizations and agencies that focus on
$1,000 AmeriCorps public service opportunities a particular practice area in a particular state
(containing attorney positions, or city; and (2) “opportunity searches,” which
education award upon
internships, law-related positions, and yield current postings for summer and
completion of their
non-legal positions, as well as school-year internships, post-graduate jobs,
service. This award can
fellowships) and in the print and fellowships. In addition, the site
be added to a Touro Comprehensive Fellowship Guide, contains numerous publications with career
summer fellowship or PSLawNet contains a Fellowships advice, summer funding sources, and a
work study grant. The Corner with everything you need to guide to federal legal employment
Touro summer fellowship coordinate a successful fellowship opportunities.
and work study search. Start with the Types of
applications will be Fellowships page for a quick overview We recommend starting with an
available in February. of what's out there. The Fellowship organization search in order to find
Resources page contains several employers that practice the kind of law and
More information on helpful fellowship application guides, are located in the geographical areas in
this year’s Summer including "Public Interest Fellowships," which you are interested. You may search
Corps program will be prepared by the Yale Law School by practice area, type of job (internship,
posted on the Equal Career Development Office. In fellowship, attorney), type of employer
Justice Works website at addition to detailing the types of (public interest organization, government
the end of January. To fellowships that exist, this guide agency, etc.), and city, state or metropolitan
read more about the describes the ideal timeline for the region. The list that is generated from your
application process and the materials search will contain information about the
Summer Corps program,
you will need to assemble. You should organization and a contact person to whom
go here.
read this before you start your to address a cover letter. You will also see
fellowship search. a link for each employer’s website.
JOIN PILOT Finally, check out the Fellowship While an opportunity search will yield
PILOT (Public Interest Calendar for an overview of deadlines, actual job postings, not all organizations
Law Organization of but always confirm all details of any actively post jobs. Rather, they wait for
Touro) is dedicated to given opportunity with the posting resumes to come to them. Accordingly, you
student awareness of organization. should apply to an organization even if no
and involvement in active job listing is posted on the website.
public interest law. Get A fellowship is a great way to kick
involved and build your off a bright future in public interest Please see Tom Maligno or any
resume’s section of law law. For more information about the counselor in the Career Services Office for
school activities. fellowship process and deadlines, more information about PSLawNet. All
make an appointment to see Tom students, especially first-years, should know
Maligno in CSO. how to use this site.
