Timely feedback regarding your EIW results is critically important to the accuracy of our counseling and our ability to assist you and others in the summer job search. By Wednesday, September 9 at 5 p.m., the Office of Career Services asks that you complete the mandatory 2015 EIW Callback/Offer Tracker (“Tracker”), and to update the Tracker with the status of your interviews, callbacks, and offers pursuant to the deadlines below. Your input is critical as we begin to make calls to assist employers in making additional hiring decisions regarding NYU Law students (please see below regarding instructions for firms where you currently may be on hold). Moreover, this data is used for the Strike-A-Match session, which benefitted you as you prepared for EIW. We expect you to provide the same data for the class of 2018.

All responses are kept completely confidential.

Please follow these instructions:

1. Click on the CSM Surveys Tab to access the Tracker (https://law-nyu-csm.symplicity.com/students/). We have inputted the names of all the firms with whom you interviewed during EIW – please check for accuracy (especially with the firm’s geographic location). Please delete any firms with whom you did not interview, add any additional EIW firms that may be missing from your list, and update the total number of EIW interviews field. Complete all information about your callbacks and/or offers for each firm.

2. Fill in the “On-Hold” section of the Tracker if you are waiting to hear from a firm with whom you had a callback, and that firm would be your first-choice employer. By filling out this section, you give OCS express consent to discuss your candidacy with that employer. Associate Dean Irene Dorzback will be contacting firms to facilitate movement on their “hold lists.”

3. You may also include any individual comments in Question 5.

DEADLINES:
You must complete the initial Tracker by 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 9, 2015. If you have not accepted an offer, you must update the Tracker EVERY WEDNESDAY, until you have accepted an offer. Students who have not completed or updated the Tracker cannot meet with an OCS counselor.

Tuesday, September 8

The Tax/ ITax LLM Job Search Skills Workshop video and the Foreign-Trained LLM Job Search Workshop video are now posted online. To access the videos, please click on the video link on your CSM Symplicity homepage.

Week 2 of Fall OCI will take place September 21 through September 25. Bidding for week 2 will close on Tuesday, September 8 at 11:59 p.m.

The following employers will be interviewing during week 2 of Fall OCI:

Alvarez and Marsal (TAX/BUSINESS ADVISORY ONLY New York, NY) – 2L Student, 3L Student, LLM International Tax Student, LLM Tax Student

Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office (Brooklyn, NY) – 2L Student, 3L Student

Internal Revenue Service; Office of Chief Counsel (Washington, DC) – 2L Student, 3L Student, LLM Tax Student

Ivins Phillips & Barker (Washington, DC – Tax and Employee Benefits Specialty) – 2L Student

Federal Trade Commission (Bureau of Competition – Washington, DC) – 2L Student, 3L Student

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) (New York, NY) – 2L Student

U.S. Army Legal Services Agency (Fort Belvoir, VA) – 2L Student, 3L Student

Berger & Montague (Philadelphia, PA) – 2L Student, 3L Student

Connors & Vilardo, LLP (Litigation FOCUS Buffalo, NY) – 2L Student

District of Columbia Public Defender (Washington, DC) – 2L Student

New Jersey Office of the Public Defender (Trenton, NJ) – 3L Student

New York County District Attorney’s Office (New York, NY) – 3L Student

Queens County District Attorney (Kew Gardens, NY) – 3L Student

UPCOMING DATES FOR WEEK 2: 9/21 – 9/25

REQUESTING INTERVIEWS CLOSES: Tuesday, 9/8 at 11:59 p.m.

ON CAMPUS INTERVIEW SCHEDULE AVAILABLE: Monday, 9/14 at 12:00 p.m.

DEADLINE TO CANCEL AN INTERVIEW OR “OPT IN” TO A WAITLIST: Wednesday, 9/16 at 11:59 p.m.

UPDATED INTERVIEW SCHEDULE AVAILABLE (Post Waitlist Lottery): Thursday, 9/17 at 12:00 p.m.

OPEN SIGN-UP OPENS: Thursday, 9/17 at 12:00 p.m.

OPEN SIGN-UP CLOSES: At 12:00 p.m. one day prior to each interview date

IN PERSON FREE SIGN-UP: If slots are available, sign up in OCS interview suite: (1) for Monday and Thursday interviews, beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Monday and Thursday; and (2) for Tuesday and Friday interviews, beginning at 5:00 p.m. the day before interview

If you have any questions regarding Fall OCI, please contact Cassandre Stump (cassandre.stump@nyu.edu) or Jennifer Leibowitz (jennifer.leibowitz@nyu.edu).

Week 1 Fall OCI schedules are available for viewing as of 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 8. The deadline to cancel an interview and opt-in to any employer waitlist is Wednesday, September 9 at 11:59 p.m. Instructions on how to cancel an interview and opt in to an employer waitlist are provided below.

Canceling an Interview

• Select the OCI top link and under Employers/Bidding, choose the Session from the dropdown menu (2015-16 Fall OCI: Week 1 (09/16/15-09/18/15)), make sure that ‘Show All’ displays in the Employers dropdown menu, then press the Search
• Click on the Interview Date for the interview you wish to cancel (it will appear as a hyperlink) and click the Cancel Interview button either above or below the employer’s name.

Please note that students who have received an offer of employment and who would like to cancel their interviews after the September 9 deadline are not able to cancel on their own; students must contact Cassandre Stump (cassandre.stump@nyu.edu) for assistance.

Waitlist Policy and Procedures

• To maintain your waitlist status with an employer, you must affirm your waitlist status online by clicking the Opt-In button next to the Employer Name.
• If you wish to cancel an individual employer from your waitlist, choose the Opt-Out button next to the Employer Name.
• IMPORTANT NOTE: If you do not cancel an employer from your waitlist AND the lottery program is able to schedule an interview on your behalf, you are required to attend the interview. Failure to do so will constitute a No-Show, which has serious repercussions.

UPCOMING DATES FOR WEEK 1: 9/16 – 9/18
ON CAMPUS INTERVIEW SCHEDULE AVAILABLE: Tuesday, 9/8 at 12:00 p.m.
DEADLINE TO CANCEL AN INTERVIEW OR “OPT IN” TO A WAITLIST: Wednesday, 9/9 at 11:59 p.m.
UPDATED INTERVIEW SCHEDULE AVAILABLE (Post Waitlist Lottery): Thursday, 9/10 at 12:00 p.m.
OPEN SIGN-UP OPENS: Thursday, 9/10 at 12:00 p.m.
OPEN SIGN-UP CLOSES: At 12:00 p.m. one day prior to each interview date
IN PERSON FREE SIGN-UP: If slots are available, sign up in OCS interview suite: (1) for Wednesday interviews, beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday; and (2) for Thursday-Friday interviews, beginning at 5:00 p.m. the day before interview

If you have any questions regarding Fall OCI, please contact Cassandre Stump (cassandre.stump@nyu.edu) or Jennifer Leibowitz (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/.

Thursday, September 17, 2015
Lipton Hall, D’Agostino Hall, 110 West 3rd Street

Job Camp is a daylong event for members of the NYU Law community who are on the law teaching market. Current NYU Law students, graduates, and affiliates who are interested in learning more about becoming a law professor are welcome to attend several of the panels being held.

Schedule of Activities:
9:15–10:15 Negotiating the AALS Hiring Conference
10:15–11:00 Moot Job Talk and Critique
11:15–12:15 What Makes a Good Job Talk

If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to the Academic Careers Program at law.academiccareers@nyu.edu. You are welcome to attend sessions as your schedule permits.

American University Washington College of Law is pleased to announce its First Annual National Health Law Writing Competition. This competition is designed to encourage law students to write scholarly papers on current topics relevant to health law. Papers may address any area of the law as applied to the health care industry or area of the law unique to health care.

Entries will be considered for publication in the WCL Health Law and Policy Brief.

Competition entries due by November 30, 2015

CASH PRIZES

First Place: $1000 | Second Place: $500

*sponsored by Corrine Propas Parver, WCL alumna

Winners will be announced by January 31, 2016

Questions should be directed to Professor Asha Scielzo at scielzo@american.edu

Please visit https://www.wcl.american.edu/health/writing/ for competition rules, entry forms, and more information.

The JD Credit/Fail option is now available for 2L and 3L students for Fall 2015 classes that have the Credit/Fail option designated. J.D. students may elect this option on the designated classes or change their election via Albert until Friday, December 4 at 11:59 pm.

Instructions on how to elect this option in Albert are as follows:

1. Log into Albert through NYUHome
2. On Albert homepage click on the Student Center Link
3. Then click on the Enroll link under Academics:
   
4. Select the Edit tab
5. Choose the Fall term and click continue
6. Choose the course that is available for Credit/Fail

Please don’t hesitate to contact the Office of Academic Services with any questions or concerns.

Best of luck with the fall semester!

The New York Court of Appeals has amended the supervision requirement for the 50-hour pro bono rule. Until recently, in order to qualify under the rule, attorneys supervising pro bono work had to be admitted to practice “in the jurisdiction where the work is performed.” This meant that certain types of pro bono work were automatically disqualified, such as:

• Work for an international organization in, e.g., Geneva or The Hague, if the supervising attorney was not admitted to the Bar in that location;
• Work for a government agency in Washington D.C. with a supervisor who is admitted to the Bar in Virginia or Maryland, but not the District of Columbia;
• Remote work performed in New York for an organization based in California, where the supervisor is admitted only in California;
• Work for a law firm’s overseas branch office, supervised by a U.S. attorney.

The rule has now been amended to require only that the supervisor be admitted in “a” jurisdiction, provided that the supervisory work does not violate any statute, regulation or code regarding the unauthorized practice of law. In other words, as long as the supervisor is authorized under relevant practice rules to supervise you in that jurisdiction, it should no longer matter whether the supervisor is admitted to practice in the location where you physically perform the pro bono work.  See here for the relevant change: http://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/news/nottobar/nottobar082815.pdf

If you have any questions about this amendment and how it may affect your pro bono work, please contact David Glasgow at david.glasgow@nyu.edu.

The Public Interest Law Center (PILC) enthusiastically invites incoming students—1Ls, LLMs, and transfers—to attend a public interest student retreat at Furman Hall on Sunday, September 20!

The retreat will commence at 12:00 noon with a brunch, followed by a keynote speech and Q&A session at 1:00pm with NYU alum, Hayley Gorenberg.  Hayley Gorenberg is the Deputy Legal Director for Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and people affected by HIV.

At 2:00pm, there will be four informal break-out sessions on topical public interest issues led by NYU alumni and students:

• Criminal Injustice and Civil Unrest: The fight for racial justice in America today
  Shannon Cumberbatch (JD ’12), Meghna Philip (3L), and Mitchell Brown (2L)

• Felons Have Families: The devastating immigration impact of a criminal conviction for a non-citizen and her family
  Isaac Wheeler (JD ’03), Katie Kavanagh (3L), and Molly Lauterback (3L)

• LGBTQ Rights After Marriage Equality: Beyond Obergefell v. Hodges
  Hayley Gorenberg (JD ’92) and Alok Nadig (3L)

• Supporting Chinese Lawyers and Activists: A conversation about the recent crackdown
  Allen Clayton-Greene (LLM ’14)

From 3:30 to 4:30pm, the retreat will close with snacks and a happy hour, where you can get to know other public interest students, panelists, and PILC counselors.

To register for the Public Interest Student Retreat, click here.  Space is limited, so please register as soon as possible!  You will receive a confirmation email closer to the date with full details of the event locations, times, and speaker bios.

We look forward to welcoming you into the NYU Law public interest community on September 20!

12:30PM-1:50PM, Tuesday, September 8, 2015, Lipton Hall

Please join the Public Interest Law Center for the Vanita Gupta Lecture at NYU School of Law. Vanita Gupta, ’01, currently serves as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and head of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Under Ms. Gupta’s leadership, the Division continues its crucially important work in a number of areas, including advancing constitutional policing and other criminal justice reforms, ensuring that individuals with disabilities are afforded an opportunity to live in integrated community settings, protecting the rights of LGBTI individuals, and combating discrimination in lending and voting. Her remarks will highlight the critical work done in the Civil Rights Division. Vanita is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University and received her law degree from New York University School of Law.

RSVP via Simplicity. For questions about the program, please contact Gabrielle Royal, Programs Director, at gabrielle.royal@nyu.edu.

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:

• Tuesday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm with Linda Wayner
• Wednesday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm with Miriam Eckenfels-Garcia
• Thursday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm with Emily Kernan
• 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.

NYU School of Law’s Office of Communications is looking for a few talented student writers to blog about their opinions, ideas, and experiences for Life at NYU Law, the Law School’s official student blog.

The position is unpaid. Bloggers will write one or two short posts a month, gaining an opportunity to reach a wide audience and showcase their abilities as legal thinkers and writers.

While this blog is geared toward prospective students, it will be heavily publicized and high-profile, and read by prospective employers, alumni, faculty, peer schools, the media, and anyone else who visits the Law School website.

JD, LLM, and JSD students are all encouraged to apply. Interested? E-mail the Office of Communications a paragraph or two explaining why you want to be a blogger for the official NYU Law student blog, and include all of your contact information. The deadline for applying for Fall 2015 is September 11, 2015. Please send your application (and any questions) to Atticus Gannaway at atticus.gannaway@nyu.edu.

Any lingering questions before you apply? Tracy Huang ’14 can tell you about her experience as an NYU Law student blogger. E-mail her at tracyhuang25@gmail.com. In the meantime, Tracy has this to say:

“Why should you blog for NYU Law? Well, it’s a lot of fun! First, blogging was a great way for me to contribute to the greater law school community. I am able to reach a diverse audience–everyone from prospective students to current students to alumni–and share my experiences in hopes that the audience can use it as a springboard for their own adventures. Second, it has been a great way for me to enrich my own law school experience. Because I always wanted something interesting to say, I became more inclined to observe and reflect carefully on what was around me for the last three years. I am glad I chose to pursue this activity during law school.”

The Summer Funding website is now open for 2015-2016 registration! You can access the Summer Funding registration page (and login page once registered) at: its.law.nyu.edu/pilc/summerfunding.

Key deadlines for Summer Funding 2015-2016:

• December 1, 2015: Registration online
• February 15, 2016: Submit FAFSAs
• March 11, 2016: View online Financial Aid Tutorial
• April 1: Receive confirmation of internship

Please see PILC’s 2L Handbook for full details on Summer Funding (the revised 1L Handbook will be available in mid-October) and further deadlines past the internship search and confirmation period.

If you have any questions regarding PILC’s Summer Funding Program, please contact pilcgrant@law.nyu.edu.

Attached please find two documents which we hope will be helpful as you create your paper and OSCAR applications. As set forth in the Instructions for Creating Paper Applications, also attached are two files that will assist you in creating a mail merge.

Attachments:
Creating Applications
FAQ_Applications 2014
LetterStarter
LabelStarter

If you are interested in working as a judicial clerk after you graduate and have not already completed the CSM/Symplicity Clerkship Registration form, please click here to complete the form. If you do not register for clerkships on CSM/Symplicity, you may miss out on important emails from the Judicial Clerkship Office about the clerkship process.

In addition, we are writing to remind you that you can register now for an account on  – the online website where federal judges list clerkships and receive electronic clerkship applications. To register, please go to the OSCAR Registration page and click the “Are You Applying?” link.  To help you navigate the site, attached to this email is the “OSCAR Quick Reference Guide for Applicants.”

Once you have registered on OSCAR you will be able to view clerkship listings posted by judges, but you will not be able to build or submit any applications on OSCAR until August 1, 2015. As we mentioned during the 1L meeting, you should look at the hiring preferences for each judge and the position details (under the Clerkships List tab for each judge) to ascertain which judges want applications from rising 2Ls and which judges are looking for rising 3L and alumni applicants.

We recommend registering for daily or weekly updates on OSCAR so you can monitor the judges who are posting for the 2017 term. To register for updates: (1) log into your OSCAR account; (2) click the “My Profile” tab; (3) click the “Edit Profile” button; (4) select an “Email Frequency” [either Daily or Weekly]; (5) select the “Preferred Types” of judges; (6) select your “Preferred States” or leave blank to receive listings from all states; and finally, (7) click the “Update Profile” button.

We have heard that some of the most competitive judges (such as the DC Circuit and a few highly competitive 9th Circuit judges) are willing to consider applications now. If you are a Pomeroy Scholar or think you would be a very strong candidate for these highly competitive clerkships, please email Michelle at michelle.cherande@nyu.edu.

The most recent copies of the Judicial Clerkship Handbook and Appendix are available from your CSM/Symplicity account under the “Clerkships” top link.

Date: Wednesday, September 9
Time: 12:45-1:45 PM
Where: Furman Hall, Room 212

JD Class of 2016 students who are considering applying for clerkships during their 3L year or after graduating should attend this session to learn about the clerkship application process. Due to changes in timing, you should attend this information session even if you attended a similar meeting as a 2L. The updated NYU Judicial Clerkship Handbook and Appendix will be distributed.

This session is for students who have never applied for a clerkship.

Click here to RSVP  for this event or log into your CSM/Symplicity account and go to the Events page.

Date: Thursday, September 10
Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
Where: Furman Hall, Suite 430, Student Library

The Honorable Dan Polster of the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio in Cleveland will discuss Public Service and Judicial Clerkships. He also will speak on Mediation: The Trial Judge as Mediator. Snacks will be served.

Click here to RSVP  for this event or log into your CSM/Symplicity account and go to the Events page.

Date: Wednesday, September 16
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Where: Furman Hall, Suite 430, Student Library

The Honorable Dennis Jacobs of the US 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, which has openings for the 2016 term. 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 4:00-4:30. He and Sally Pritchard of the Staff Attorney’s Office will be available from 4:30 until 5:30 to speak informally with students. Please feel free to stop by at any time during the event.

The Staff Attorney’s Office will be interviewing on-campus during Week 6 of the Fall On-Campus Interviewing program. They are scheduled to interview on Tuesday, October 20 and Wednesday, October 21.

Click here to RSVP  for this event or log into your CSM/Symplicity account and go to the Events page.

Monday, September 28, 2015  |  6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Smart Classroom 210, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South  map

On September 28, the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, NYU Law Students for Reproductive Justice, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Chicken & Egg Pictures will host a documentary screening and panel with legal and medical professionals to call attention to total abortion bans in Latin America.

Dinner will be provided.

 A Quiet Inquisition Documentary Screening

At a public hospital in Nicaragua, OB-GYN Dr. Carla Cerrato contends with the harrowing implications of a new law that bans all abortion, even in cases of rape or incest or to save a woman’s life. Doctors must navigate between the potential of prosecution and medical protocols that save lives. The drama illuminates the reality of prohibition against the backdrop of a political, religious, and historically complex identity. As the fatalities escalate, Dr. Cerrato’s outrage transforms into a willingness to act boldly.

For more information, please click here.