The Office of Career Services, the Public Interest Law Center, and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations are coordinating efforts to gather employment data by way of the Graduate Employment Survey. Due to the importance of collecting this information for several entities, including the American Bar Association, the National Association for Law Placement and U.S. News and World Report, only those students who complete the Survey will be given tickets to the School of Law’s graduation ceremony. You must fill out the survey as completely and accurately as possible, so that we can provide the most complete statistics for these organizations. All fields are required – please fill out every section completely to avoid follow up phone calls or emails.

We recognize that we are requesting this information early in the semester, and that many students have not yet finalized their post-graduation plans.  Please indicate your current status and update your employment and contact information as your plans develop.  The deadline for completion of the Survey is Friday, April 24, 2015. 

In order to complete the Survey, do the following (this should take no more than 15 minutes):

• Login to CSM at: https://law-nyu-csm.symplicity.com/students.
• There will be a quick link to your Graduate Employment Survey on the CSM home page under “Shortcuts”.
• Complete ALL the fields to avoid follow-up calls and emails since all data is REQUIRED by the reporting agencies.

Please note:  Occasionally, when you make a selection the screen will reload with additional fields to complete; simply scroll back down to where you left off and continue completing the survey.

• You may also note any additional circumstances in the “Additional Information” field at the bottom of the survey.
• Click the “Save Changes” button once all the information is complete and correct. This will submit your survey.

Please note:  If you have not yet finalized your post graduation employment plans, you may still update the form at a later date.

• You may want to print out a copy of your completed survey as confirmation of your submission.
• Click the “Log Out” link on the upper right, next to your name to exit.

Thank you so much for taking the time to complete the Survey and for providing your feedback and comments!

RSVP via CSM Events Tab (https://law-nyu-csm.symplicity.com/students/).

The Office of Career Services (OCS) believes that all 1Ls who intend to participate in Early Interview Week (“EIW”) 2015 would benefit from an early assessment of their interviewing skills, so that each interview is maximized during EIW. Your interview skills are a key element to this process.

OCS will conduct 15 minute mock interview sessions now through April 24 in the OCS offices. These sessions are mandatory for all 1Ls who plan to participate in EIW to interview with private sector employees.

In preparation, please familiarize yourself with the “Interview Skills” portion of the Career Development Resources Handbook. This information can also be found in the Career Resources Library on CSM in the document titled “2014-2015 Career Development Resources Handbook.”

You MUST have an up-to-date NYU-formatted resume and transcript uploaded to CSM in advance of your mini-mock interview.

Formal dress is NOT required.

The Early Interview Week 2015 module opens on Monday, April 20 at 12 p.m. to rising 2Ls and 3Ls (i.e., current 1Ls and 2Ls) on CSM.  You will be able to access the OCI tab to view/bid on the EIW employers if your Summer Registration Form/Jobs Log is complete. If you have not completed your Summer Jobs Log/Registration Form and you still plan to participate in EIW, please send an email to Jennifer Leibowitz at jennifer.leibowitz@nyu.edu as soon as possible.

If you are still seeking summer employment, please choose “Seeking Job” under Job/Activity Type on your Summer Registration Form and contact then the OCS receptionist (212-998-6090) to make an appointment if you have not recently met with an OCS counselor.

The NYU School of Law Office of Development and Alumni Relations invites you to attend the 12th Nicholas J. Healy Lecture on Admiralty Law. This year’s lecture will feature The Honorable Mark S. Davis, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, LeRoy Lambert, president of Charles Taylor P&I Management (Americas), and Professor Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Harold S. Shefelman Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law who will present on the topic, “Wish List: Issues We Wish the US Supreme Court Would Decide.”

This lecture will take place on Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. in Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South. A reception will immediately follow the lecture. One CLE credit will be available. This CLE credit is appropriate for newly admitted and experienced attorneys.

To RSVP, please click here by Friday, April 24, 2015 or copy and paste the registration link below.

Registration link: http://nyulaw.imodules.com/healy

The Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights is delighted to invite you to its inaugural conference on April 21 and 22, 2015. The conference will be in Vanderbilt Hall, located at 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012.

The new Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights is a research center that promotes cutting-edge scholarship, advocacy, and education on human rights issues in the US and abroad. Honoring and extending the human rights work and vision of Robert L. Bernstein, the Institute seeks to deepen engagement between scholars and those beyond academia—practitioners, law makers, diplomats, nongovernmental organizations, and international institutions—on a wide variety of human rights issues, from Internet freedom and poverty to refugee rights and armed conflict. The conference will examine human rights responses to inequality.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 210

4:00 p.m. Documentary Film Screening, Nowhere To Call Home: A Tibetan in Beijing
A Tibetan widow defies her autocratic father-in-law so her young son can go to school. The documentary explores ethnic discrimination in Han Chinese cities and gender discrimination in a Tibetan village, and has won rare acclaim from both Tibetans and PRC Han Chinese.

5:15 p.m. – Panel Discussion
Moderator: Robert Barnett, Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program, Columbia University
Panelists: Jocelyn Ford, film’s Director
Sang Mota, Domestic Violence Counselor

6:30 p.m. Reception (Golding Lounge)
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. – Panel: Gender and Disability Discrimination in China
Moderator:
Jerome Cohen, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the US Asia Law Institute (USALI)
Panelists:
Ira Belkin, Executive Director of USALI
Zhou Dan, Chinese Lawyer, Scholar and Activist
Sharon Hom ’80, Executive Director of Human Rights in China

12:30-1:30 p.m. Emerging Voices: A Conversation with the Next Generation, a conversation with Michael Posner, Co-director, Center for Business and Human Rights and Clinical Professor, Business and Society, Dean Trevor Morrison, NYU School of Law, and the newest generation of NYU School of Law Human Rights leaders.
Boxed lunches provided.
2:00-3:30 – Panel: Global Inequalities of Wealth and Health
Moderator:
Meg Satterthwaite ’99, Professor of Clinical Law, Faculty Director of the Bernstein Institute
Panelists:
Joe Amon, Director, Health and Human Rights Program of Human Rights Watch
Paula Braveman, Director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health of the UCSF School of Medicine
Strive Masiyiwa, Founder & Chairman of Econet Wireless International, Ltd.

4:00-5:30 p.m. – Panel: Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Global Perspective
Moderator: TBD
Panelists:
César Rodríguez Garavito, Director of Global Justice and Human Rights Program at Universidad de los Andes
Gay McDougall, Visiting Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law
Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights
If you would like to RSVP to this event, please HERE or copy and paste the link below:
http://nyulaw.imodules.com/BernsteinConference

For more information about the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, please visit us at http://www.law.nyu.edu/bernstein-institute.

We hope you can join us!

If you are unable to attend Barrister’s Ball due to financial hardship, please come to OGA by May 1 to let us know as we may be able to offer some assistance.

Are you public interest minded? Did you enjoy talking to your Public Interest Mentor and want to take a larger role in the public interest community?

Apply to be on the Public Interest Mentor Board!

To apply send a short statement of interest (one paragraph or less!) and your resume to nyu.public.interest.mentors@gmail.com by Wednesday, April 22 at 11:59 PM.

Please let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to hearing from you!

Best,

Sarah, Molly, Iris and Jessica

Monday, April 20, 2015  |  6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall

The Public Interest Law Center invites all students to its annual end-of-the-year reception! Join us to bid farewell to our departing public interest third-year and LLM students while enjoying free food, drinks, and music.

To attend, please RSVP here by April 14.

For career planning questions that can be answered in 10 minutes or less, the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) offers drop-in counseling during the following days and times this week:

• Monday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm with  Linda Wayner
• Tuesday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm with Rachel Peckerman
• Wednesday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm with Sarah Hudson-Plush
• Thursday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm for federal government questions only with Heidi Gilchrist

To make a full counseling appointment to meet with a PILC Counselor, please call our office at (212) 998-6686 during business hours (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST), or email pilc.appointments@nyu.edu.

Yoga class is cancelled for this Wednesday, April 22 and will resume for the last class of the semester next Wednesday, April 29.

LAST CLASS:

Wednesday, April 29, 2015  |  11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
245 Sullivan Street- Furman Hall, Lester Pollack Colloquium (9th Floor)
New York, NY 10012

Recharge your mind!
Pointers and practices on how yoga can help you relax, rejuvenate and focus.

This class will be led by our own Assistant Dean Arthur Fama, Spring 2015 Yoga Schedule

European Bank for Reconstruction & Development Careers Information Session
Tuesday, April 21, 2015  |  11:00 AM – 11:50 AM
FH 430, OCS/PILC Library

To attend, RSVP via Symplicty/CSM.

The EBRD is a public international financial institution mainly investing in the private sector in former communist countries to help them establish sound democracy and market economy. The ERBD offers an exciting and challenging career to talented candidates in a wide range of sectors, across Banking, Economics, Finance, International Law, International Relations, and Risk Management. We have openings in cities as diverse as Amman, Bucharest, Istanbul and Ulaanbaatar, and, of course, in our London headquarters.

We are looking to meet passionate candidates who are interested in a future international career. We will be providing general information on our institution as well as some job opportunities currently available or will be available in the future.

Presenters:

Lucinda Read (Director, HR Business Partnering)
Maya Tamura (Talent Acquisition Specialist)

Please join us for the next International Tax Program Luncheon Lecture, entitled “Non-tax Treaties as Sources of International Tax Law,” to be delivered by Svetislav V. Kostić (ITP ’08), assistant professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law.

Friday, April 24, 2015
1:15 pm
Vanderbilt Hall 202

Lunch will be provided. The lecture is open by invitation; please contact Gregory.Zwahlen@nyu.edu for more information.

The Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich), in collaboration with Concurrences, Competition Law Journal, are pleased to invite you to a half day colloquium on:

Standards of ‘Consumer Welfare’: Are Competition Law and Consumer Law Complements or Substitutes?
Trans-Atlantic Perspectives from Consumer Law and Competition Law

The speakers include Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen and Professors Josef Drexl, Daniela Caruso, Pierre Larouche, Ryan Bubb and Dorota Leczykiewicz.  The event will take place on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 from 1:00-5:30 pm at NYU School of Law, Faculty Library, Vanderbilt Hall (3rd floor) 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012.

Kindly RSVP at jeanmonnet@nyu.edu if you would like to attend, and for further program details.

Monday, May 4, 2015  |  12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Furman Hall 430, OCS / PILC Library

Please join PILC for an informal lunch discussion with Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. He will talk about working at the Washington AG’s office and public interest careers more generally. A light lunch will be served. RSVP here.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
NYU School of Law
Lipton Hall, D’Agostino Hall
108 West Third Street
New York, NY 10012

Please RSVP. 2 CLE credits available for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys.

On April 29th, please join the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law at NYU School of Law and the Ecologic Institute for a discussion about the German Energiewende (Energy Transition). This event will provide an opportunity to speak with experts with first-hand insight into the Energiewende and lessons it may hold for policymakers in New York State as they pursue their own comprehensive energy reforms.

Speakers:

Chris King, Global Chief Regulatory Officer, Smart Grid Services Siemens AG

Andreas Kraemer, Founder & Director Emeritus, Ecologic Institute in Berlin, Germany; and Founding Chairman, Ecologic Institute US

Georg Maue, First Secretary for Climate and Energy Issues, German Embassy

Michael Mehling, Executive Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Eleanor Stein, Advisor for Special Projects, New York State Public Service Commission

Justin Gillis (moderator), Reporter, New York Times

This event was made possible by the generous support of the German Embassy in Washington DC and the Transatlatic Climate Bridge Program.

The Early Interview Week 2015 module is now open to rising 2Ls and 3Ls (i.e., current 1Ls and 2Ls) on CSM.  The deadline to make employer selections/submit bids and upload your resume is Monday, June 29 at 11:59 pm EST. There is no advantage to submitting your bids early, as OCS will not run the lottery until after the June 29 deadline. However, students are encouraged to submit their bids and upload their resume in advance of the deadline. Please continue to check the employer list, as employers continue to sign up and will continue to do so over the next several weeks.

You will be able to access the OCI tab to view/bid on the EIW employers if your Summer Registration Form/Jobs Log is complete. If you have not completed your Summer Jobs Log/Registration Form, and you still plan to participate in EIW, please send an email to Jennifer Leibowitz at jennifer.leibowitz@nyu.edu as soon as possible.

If you are still seeking summer employment, please choose “Seeking Job” under Job/Activity Type on your Summer Registration Form and contact the OCS receptionist (212-998-6090) to make an appointment if you have not recently met with an OCS counselor.

In order to address common EIW questions in a less formal and more “hands on” setting (with concrete examples) , Associate Director Irene Dorzback will conduct small group sessions to discuss  1) EIW Firm Selection – Where to Start?  2) How to Break Out of the B Curve; and 3) Public Interest Persona Trapped in a Private Sector Job Search:  How to Transfer Your Skills.  The session is slated to last one hour, with the last 15 minutes devoted to the public interest background issue – students for whom this does not apply are welcome to leave the session after 45 minutes.

RSVP via CSM Events tab: https://law-nyu-csm.symplicity.com/students/

Thursday, April 30, 5:00 p.m., OCS/PILC Conference Room (Furman 430)
Tuesday, May 19, 5:00 p.m., OCS/PILC Student Library (Furman 430)
Wednesday, May 20, 5:00 p.m., OCS/PILC Student Library (Furman 430)
Wednesday, May 27, 8:00 a.m., OCS/PILC Student Library (Furman 430)
Thursday, June 4, 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., OCS/PILC Student Library (Furman 430)
Tuesday, June 9, 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., OCS/PILC Student Library (Furman 430)

There are several teaching assistant positions available for classes offered during the summer. Please see the position descriptions below. If you are a current LLM student and are interested in one of these opportunities please send to Jesus Ballivian a resume and a copy of your fall transcript at jesus.ballivian@nyu.edu. The Graduate Lawyering faculty will review applications.

A. Introduction to US Law

The Graduate Lawyering Program in conjunction with the Office of Graduate Affairs is seeking several students to serve as Teaching Assistants for the Introduction to US Law class for international LLM students held August 10-21, 2015. This is a paid position.

Teaching Assistants (TA’s) attend class (9:00 am -12:10 pm and 1:00 – 2:00 pm on most days) and answer questions during the lunch break and after class. TA’s will also meet with Graduate Lawyering Faculty on a regular basis during the two weeks of Introduction to US Law.

Duties of TA’s include assisting faculty with course preparation, responding to students who seek assistance with course material, advising students on course selection, how to make the most of the LLM year, and on general matters relating to life in NYC. TA’s will also assist the Office of Graduate Affairs with various tasks related to events taking place during the two weeks of Intro.

TA’s must attend a mandatory introductory meeting on Friday, August 7, 2015, and a debriefing meeting post-Introduction to US Law. TA’s will also have the opportunity to assist with LLM Orientation events on August 24 and 25 for additional compensation.

Your expertise will be invaluable to new students during the sometimes overwhelming experience of acclimating to the Law School. We hope you will apply!

B. Legal English Intensive Workshop

The Graduate Legal Skills Program in conjunction with the Office of Graduate Affairs is seeking a Teaching Assistant for the Legal English Intensive Workshop for international LL.M. students held July 27– August 7, 2015.

The Teaching Assistant will attend class (9:30 am – 1:00 pm) and answer questions during the morning break from 11:00 – 11:30 am and from 1:00 – 1:30 pm. Duties include participating in student group discussions during class, coordinating student communication and meetings, responding to students with questions concerning course materials. The Teaching Assistant should have excellent English speaking, reading and writing skills, as well as a strong background in Legal English terminology and knowledge of the US legal system.

For career planning questions that can be answered in 10 minutes or less, the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) offers drop-in counseling during the following days and times this week:

• Monday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm with  Linda Wayner
• Tuesday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm with Rachel Peckerman
• Wednesday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm with David Glasgow
• Thursday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm for federal government questions only with Heidi Gilchrist
• Friday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm with Sarah Hudson-Plush

To make a full counseling appointment to meet with a PILC Counselor, please call our office at (212) 998-6686 during business hours (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST), or email pilc.appointments@nyu.edu.

The compliance deadline is less than two weeks away. If you haven’t already, please take a few minutes to go through the necessary steps outlined in the Exam Readiness e-mail you received from ITS on April 16^th.

Important: It is advised that students run the latest updates for their computer prior to the exam period. To avoid interference with your exams, please make sure that your computers are restarted prior to your exam starts. If you need assistance updating your computer, please reach out to Helpdesk prior to exams. As a reminder, Windows releases their updates on the second Tuesday of every month; this will coincide with exams. 

Compliance

You must install the latest version of Exam4 and upload a Practice Exam using your Spring 2015 Exam ID by 2pm Tuesday, May 5, 2015. You can confirm your compliance status in ExamReporter.

Exam4 saves only encrypted copies of your exam response – you will not be able to open or read your exam response after submittal.  This includes the Practice Exam.

If you are having any problems related to the above, you must contact Helpdesk prior to the deadline for assistance.

Regards,

ITS Helpdesk

law.helpdesk@nyu.edu

(212) 992-8183