Registration Required 

David Klafter, Senior Counsel with Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. and

Susan Weiner, Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at NBC Universal will be our guest speakers for the Amy and Brian Schorr Family Luncheon Speaker Series on Monday, March 9^th, 2015.

 Lunch will be served at 12:30 pm in Furman 210

Please RSVP for this event.

David Klafter, Senior Counsel 

Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P.

David practiced law from 1980-96, first as law clerk to Hon. Charles H. Tenney in the U.S. District Court in New York, then in private practice, culminating as a litigation partner with White & Case.  From 1996 on, David has worked in the investing world as a principal and general counsel with Gotham Partners, L.P., then as COO of Festina Lente Investment Management, LP, and now as Senior Counsel with Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P.

David’s charitable work includes:

• Northwestern University. Board of Visitors since 1997 and co-chair of a campaign to endow the Richard W. Leopold Professorship in History
• Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst. Director and VP since 1998
• Kaufman Center. Trustee from 2004-2011.  Chair, Merkin Concert Hall from 2007-2011.   Leadership Council, 2011-present
• Pershing Square Foundation. Director since 2009
• Cathedral School of St. John the Divine.  Trustee and Member of the Executive Committee since 2011.   Chair, Capital Campaign Committee
• Signature Theatre. Director since 2012
• Student Sponsor Partnership. Since 1994, David has sponsored and mentored students in Catholic high schools

David and his wife Nancy Kestenbaum live in New York City with their children, Rebecca and Ben.  Nancy, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, is co-chair of Covington & Burling’s white-collar group.

David received his B.A. with honors in American Studies in 1976 from Northwestern University (Phi Beta Kappa) and his J.D. in 1980 from New York University.

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Susan E. Weiner

General Counsel, NBCUniversal News Group,

Executive Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, NBCUniversal

Susan Weiner is General Counsel, NBCUniversal News Group, and Executive Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, NBCUniversal.  Susan heads the group of lawyers who work with all the NBCUniversal news organizations, including NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Stations, E! and Telemundo.  Susan oversees legal support for newsgathering and reporting, transactions and contracts, regulatory matters and claims and disputes.

Prior to joining NBC, Susan was Deputy General Counsel of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.  She was also a litigator at Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler and clerked for the Honorable Charles H. Tenney in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Susan serves on the Board of Directors of the Media Law Resource Center, which she chaired from 2012-2014.

Susan graduated from New York University School of Law, where she was a Law Review editor and a member of Order of the Coif.

Source: http://cbldf.org/2015/02/cbldf-launches-legal-writing-competition-for-excellence-in-comic-book-scholarship/

Deadline: April 17th, 2015

Description/Requirements:

To participate, students should submit an original piece of legal writing addressing a legal issue or issues related to comic books, the comic book industry, or a matter that relates to, or affects, them. Eligible applicants must be enrolled as either a full- or part-time student at a U.S. law school. The writing must be the author’s original creation (although it may be co-authored) and may be either an unpublished manuscript or a published article that was published no longer than one year prior to the competition deadline.

All submissions must be received by April 17, 2015. Along with your writing, please provide your name, address, e-mail address, and the law school that you currently attend. Final submissions and any questions should be sent to contest@cbldf.org.

Prize:

The grand prize winning paper will be published on cbldf.org. The winner will also earn the opportunity to present their work during a CBLDF presentation at Comic-Con International. CBLDF will furnish a badge for the winner and one guest. The winner will also receive a complimentary one-year membership to Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Contact:

(212) 679-7151
contest@cbldf.org

When: March 18th, 2015 (Wednesday), 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.

Where: The University Club, One West 54^th Street, New York, NY 10019

Description:

A full day, CLE-accredited conference, ATL Converge brings lawyers together to help navigate emerging trends in media and technology. The forum features a series of panel discussions on a full range of challenges and opportunities facing the legal industry such as privacy, reputation, communications strategies and emerging technical trends.

For the full agenda please visit: abovethelaw.com/converge2015/agenda

Price: $299.00 for General Admission

The Office of Student Affairs has teamed up with the Office of Alumni Relations and the Law Alumni Association to launch a new mentorship program! Because we are currently in the pilot phase, we have opened the program exclusively to our 1L population. We will launch the program to the entire Law School community depending on the success and feedback we receive.

The program has been designed to provide students the ability to connect with alumni mentors for new insights on career paths, academic program choices, and other professional guidance. Beginning next week, you will be able to utilize the Career Services Symplicity platform to search for mentors based on criteria provided from alumni profile data. This program is intended to primarily help build professional relationships and provide guidance, and therefore, you are not permitted to contact mentors in search of a job.

We encourage all 1Ls to take advantage of this great opportunity to build lasting connections. If you are interested in participating, click here for the user guide and here for the program guidelines.

For questions or concerns, please contact the Office of Student Affairs at law.studentaffairs@nyu.edu.

Monday, March 9
12:25-1:50 p.m.
Furman Hall Room 214
Feel free to bring your own lunch

Networking is a powerful tool for attorneys no matter where they practice. Networking can help you find a job, extend your business relationships, and generate new clients. However, networking strategies in the United States may differ from those employed in other countries. In this installment, students will learn tried-and-true techniques about networking at events, organizations, and through informational interviews.

On behalf of the Global Fellows Program at the Hauser Global Law School, we cordially invite you to attend our Spring Global Fellows Forums to be held on Tuesday, March 10^th, in 22 Washington Square North 1^st Floor Conference Room.  Below is a list of the speakers and their research projects.  Research papers will be available about one week prior to each Forum date on the Global Fellows Forum website.

Space may be limited, so kindly RSVP to law.globalvisitors@nyu.edu if you plan to attend.

NOTE:  The Spring Global Fellows is co-sponsored by the Center for Law and Philosophy.

Tuesday, March 10^th – 22 Washington Square North 1^st Floor Conference Room

Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong PhD Program

Professor Gregory Gordon, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for the Research Postgraduates Program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), will be in New York in mid-February and will be available to answer questions from any NYU students interested in pursuing a PhD degree at CUHK.

If interested, please RVSP to law.globalvisitors@nyu.edu.

On Monday, March 2 at 12:30 p.m. in the OCS/PILC/JCO Student Library, Furman Hall, Suite 430, Judge Dennis Jacobs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will host an information session for students interested in applying for positions at the Second Circuit’s Staff Attorney’s Office. Staff Attorneys are appointed to serve for two years. The position is ideal for students interested in criminal law and procedure, administrative law, immigration, and civil rights issues, as well as those interested in appellate work generally.

Judge Jacobs will speak from 12:30-1:00. He and Sally Pritchard of the Staff Attorney’s Office will be available from 1:00 until 1:30 to speak informally with students.

Please RSVP via your CSM/Symplicity account under the “Events” tab.

U.S. Supreme Court Clerkship Applications Information Session

If you are interested in applying for a Supreme Court clerkship, please attend this information session.  If you cannot attend the information session but are interested in applying for a Supreme Court clerkship please contact Michelle Cherande at michelle.cherande@nyu.edu.

Date:  Monday, February 23
Time:  12:30-1:30 pm
Location: Furman Hall, Room 316
Videotaped?:  NO

Click here to RSVP or log into your CSM/Symplicity account and go to the “Events” page.

Friday, February 27
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Vanderbilt Hall Room 202
RSVP by emailing law.graduateaffairs@nyu.edu

Professor Kevin Davis, Graduate Faculty Chair and Vice Dean for Global Programs, is inviting LLM students to participate in a focus group to evaluate the Graduate Lawyering Program. The program has, in recent years, been both expanded and modified in response to student feedback and to changes in the eligibility rules for foreign-trained attorneys to sit for the New York bar. It now includes Introduction to US Law, Introduction to US Legal Practice, Graduate Lawyering I and II, and non-credit courses in developing legal English skills.

We would be delighted to hear your views and ideas and to have the benefit of your feedback as we consider how to continue to develop and improve the educational experience of our students.

The comments and insights of our students are invaluable, and we look forward to hearing from you!

Overview
APD Insight Law Program available for 1L students on campus at Columbia Law School, NYU School of Law and Yale Law School. Program Date: Saturday, March 28, 2015

• Brief overview of management consulting
• Half-day consulting case study
• Opportunity to network with focused group of peers and consultants with law backgrounds

Detailed Description
McKinsey APD Insight Law Program McKinsey APD Insight Law is a one-day program designed to familiarize law students with management consulting. The program will include an overview of management consulting, a half-day consulting case study and the opportunity to network with a focused group of peers and McKinsey consultants with a background in law. This program does not require any business experience and is designed to cover a range of topics important to those who are exploring alternative career opportunities. The program is open to first year law students, or 1Ls, at Columbia Law School, NYU School of Law and Yale Law School expecting to finish their degree in 2017. To apply, please submit your resume as a PDF by the following deadlines: Columbia Law School – February 27, 2015 Yale Law School – February 27, 2015, New York School of Law – March 9, 2015
To apply please visit:

https://mckinsey.secure.force.com/Event/job_details?jid=a0xA000000CIy8qIAD

*Your application to this program has no bearing on future applications for full-time or internship roles

Thursday, March 5, 12:00 p.m., VH 204
Did you know that McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, has been hiring advanced professional degree (APD) candidates just like you for over 20 years?  Over half of our 8000 consultants in our 100+ offices worldwide hold PhD, MD, JD and non-MBA Masters degrees.

If you are in your 1L or 2L years and would like to learn more about a career alternative that will stimulate and challenge you, along with the opportunity to work with highly motivated colleagues in a supportive, team-based environment, please join our consultants for an informational presentation and Q&A on March 5th at 12:00 p.m. in Vanderbilt Hall Room 204.  To register, please visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NYULawMarch2015

Presentation Agenda:

• Introduction to McKinsey and our work
• Intern and full-time opportunities
• Insight Law  https://mckinsey.secure.force.com/Event/job_details?jid=a0xA000000CIy8qIAD
• Application process
• Group Q&A
• Reception with McKinsey consultants

Please visit http://www.mckinsey.com/Careers/Your_background/Advanced_professional_degrees  to learn more about our opportunities.

Thursday, February 26, 6:00 p.m., 14 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10007

Wine, Cheese and Conversation:  Share your thoughts about NYCLA with President Lew Tesser

Attention law student members! Join NYCLA President Lew Tesser for an informal hour of open conversation about NYCLA.  Share your ideas and help us keep our finger on the pulse of what our law student members want and need from their bar association.

To keep these gatherings intimate and informal, attendance is limited to the first 20 people who sign up, so pre-registration is required.  This event is scheduled periodically to give as many members as possible a platform to share their views and ideas.

Register 

*Registration is open to NYCLA law student members only* 

Seats are limited so sign up today!

Following is a sample of job listings currently active on CSM.  You can find additional jobs, as well as get more information on the specific jobs listed below and apply for these jobs through the CSM System: https://law-nyu-csm.symplicity.com/students/

1. Summer Law Clerk (1Ls, 2Ls); Law Firm, New York, NY – CSM ID 437591. Seeking motivated law student to join the Private Client Services group as a summer law clerk.
2. Summer Associate (1Ls, 2Ls); Corporate, Purchase, NY – CSM ID 437584. A summer associate would be expected to perform a myriad of tasks, including conduct research projects, review and revise corporate and commercial contracts, and draft memoranda, demand letters and settlement agreements with appropriate supervision.
3. Summer Associate (1Ls, 2Ls); Corporate, Little Falls, NJ– CSM ID 437576. Work with the organization’s Ethics & Compliance Department & Legal Department to address the various needs of the company’s legal & compliance programs. This includes legal research and drafting related to federal and state laws as well as improving current compliance program offerings.
4. Associate (3Ls); Law Firm, New York, NY– CSM ID 437592. Associates at the firm handle a range of employment cases from the discovery stage through trial and earn significant experience drafting pleadings, counseling clients, conducting depositions and engaging in motion practice and oral argument before appellate courts.

Following is a listing of currently active Spring RA positions on CSM.  Full descriptions and application instructions are available through the CSM Job Postings Tab: https://law-nyu-csm.symplicity.com/students/

1. Professor Hulsebosch – CSM ID 437636. Professor Hulsebosch seeks part-time research assistance for the next two months on the legal right to migrate within the British Empire in the 18th century.
2. Professor Thompson, A. – CSM ID 437048. Nature of Research: Research related to issues of Criminal justice.
3. Professor Taylor-Thompson – CSM ID 437437. Professor Taylor-Thompson is looking for a research assistant to work with issues related to public defense, policing and other criminal justice issues.

We want you to read each week’s OCS Docket entries and we want to reward you for staying informed. Read carefully and you will frequently find a prize buried amidst the OCS content.  If you find the prize and want to participate in a drawing for it, write by 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday to law.careers@nyu.edu with the subject line “Reading Reward”. We will select randomly from the submitted entries. Prizes range in value and include a private study room in the OCS Interview Suite during exam period; books written by NYU Law alumni; a free night at a Hilton hotel; movie tickets; lunch with a hiring partner or recruiting administrator of a major NYC law firm; a suite at the Early Interview Week hotel in August; among others.  These prizes are donated and do not come from tuition funds.

JD:
Monday: 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday:  11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Thursday: 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Friday: 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.

LLM (Week of Feb. 16 – 20):
Wednesday 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Thursday: 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

LLM (Week of Feb. 23 – 27):
Wednesday 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Thursday: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Friday: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

If you are planning to participate in Early Interview Week (EIW 2015) and did not attend a Small Group Counseling Session, please come to an OCS drop-in appointment. Below are the Drop-In Hours for JD students:

Monday: 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday:  11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Thursday: 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Friday: 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Loyola University Chicago School of law is hosting the 2015 Patent Law Interview Program on Thursday, July 30 and Friday, July 31 in downtown Chicago, Illinois.  The 2015 Patent Law Interview Program will be accepting registrations from:

• JD students graduating in May/June 2016 (rising 3Ls/current 2Ls)
• JD students graduating in May/June 2017 (rising 2Ls/current 1Ls)
• JD students graduating in December 2015/January 2016 (3Ls)
• JD students graduating in December 2016/January 2017 (2Ls)
• Students in Intellectual Property LLM programs with anticipated graduation dates in 2016 and 2017 (LLMs) Students who will graduate before the program is held in July/August 2015 and students who plan to graduate after May/June 2017 are not eligible for the 2015 Patent Law Interview Program.

Last year roughly 135 employers, 190 law schools, and 1,400 law students from across the country participated in the program. The program is entirely pre-selected, which means that students submit resumes and transcripts to bid on interviews with the employers they are interested in, and employers then review the materials of the students who bid on them and select the students they wish to interview at the program. Last year, approximately half of the participating students were selected for interviews.

Students with undergraduate or graduate degrees in engineering or a technical science should consider registering for the program.  You do not need to be patent bar eligible to register, although the vast majority of employers participating in the program are seeking patent bar eligible students.

For more information on the program, please refer to the Loyola Patent Program website at: http://www.luc.edu/law/career/patent_students.html.

Online student registration for this year’s Patent Law Interview Program is currently open and will close on Monday, March 9.  The registration page is located at: https://patentlawregistration.luc.edu/lawstudents/Default.aspx . At this stage of registration, you will only need to enter some basic information (you will upload your resume and bid on interviews later in the semester).  Please note that our school is listed alphabetically as New York University School of Law on the registration form’s drop down menu of law schools.

There is a non-refundable $35 registration fee for which you will not need to pay; NYU will be covering all registration fees for students. 

IMPORTANT DATES FOR STUDENTS
Monday, March 9: Deadline for Student Registration
Tuesday, April 14: Students receive CSM passwords/bidding instructions
Tuesday, April 14: Student Bidding Begins
Thursday, April 30: Deadline for Student Bidding
Monday, June 22: Initial interview schedules available on CSM
Monday, June 22 – Wednesday, June 24: Interview Cancellation Period
Friday, June 26: Final Schedules available on Symplicity
Wednesday, July 29: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Welcome Reception (Open to all participating students)
Thursday, July 30 & Friday, July 31: 2015 Patent Law Interview Program

Please direct any questions about the program to the Patent Program Liaison in our office, Jennifer Leibowitz at jennifer.leibowitz@nyu.edu.

Associate Dean Dorzback will be available to students on an individual basis by advance sign-up to discuss job search related issues during a walk around Washington Square Park. Sign up through the events tab on https://law-nyu-csm.symplicity.com/students/.

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