Law Practice

LexisNexis Summer Associate, Intern and Graduating Student Training

This annual national training program prepares students across America to use LexisNexis in the workplace in a efficient and confident manner during their work in externships, internships, summer associate and attorney positions as graduating students.

Depending on the session, students learn Lexis account cost structures, cost-effective/time-effective usage and short cuts, as well as skills such as drafting pleadings, motions, orders, discovery requests, and contracts. The program also covers areas of law, including but not limited to, corporate/securities, litigation, IP, real estate, entertainment, wills and trusts, judicial clerkships, and criminal practice.

The Myschool tab contains a description of the types of classes students should take based on practice area and program. The training is scheduled through the last day of classes.

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BRIDGE THE GAP Program

Want to develop practical skills and approaches to master your summer employment?  Attend the March 24, 2006 Bridge the Gap program at the New York City Bar, sponsored by the Law Library Association of Greater New York.  Click here for a PDF version of the program announcement and registration form.

This full-day program will enhance your legal and factual research skills in a number of specific practice areas (including intellectual property, employment/labor, tax, corporate transactions and securities, criminal law, commercial litigation, and legislative history).  The program concludes with a panel discussion about life as a summer associate.  Panel members include U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth S. Stong, Peter J.W. Sherwin, a litigation partner at Proskauer Rose LLP, and Nicole Silvestri, an associate at Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto.   

Law Student Scholarships for Continuing Legal Education Seminars Sponsored by PLI

Do you want to develop additional expertise in certain areas of the law in which you intend to practice? Do you want to explore or learn more about certain areas of the law in which you may be interested in practicing? Do you want additional opportunities to meet and network with practicing attorneys and in-house counsel? An excellent way to accomplish any or all of the above is through attending continuing legal education seminars. The non-profit Practicing Law Institute (PLI) is a preeminent CLE provider that offers a wide range of seminars, conducted by panels of distinguished practitioners, judges and law professors, in virtually all areas of the law. While practicing attorneys pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars to attend these seminars PLI generally awards full tuition scholarships to law students wishing to attend most programs (a $15 non-refundable application fee is required). You can obtain a copy of the application outside the Career Services offices, from the display racks in the library’s popular reading section or from the PLI website itself. You can also obtain detailed descriptions of upcoming programs as well as more information about PLI, including its offerings to law students, at its website.