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New York, Greater New York City Chapter
Law Student Corner
Law Firm Information
- NALP
Directory of Legal Employers (This free site allows you to
search law firms by location (e.g., New York), size, salary, etc.
and will output the data in a form that you can use in a mail
merge.)
- Vault
Reports (This service provides detailed information about
and rankings of law firms (e.g., New York firms) by associates.
Some of the information costs money, but it may be worth the investment.)
We highly recommend purchasing a hard copy of The Vault Guide
to the Top 100 Law Firms and/or The Vault Guide to the Top New
York Law Firms in researching firms and preparing for interviews.
The Vault Guide to Resumes, Cover Letters and Interviews and The
Vault Guide to Financial Interviews are useful in preparing for
law interviews. Your law school career services office may also
provide complimentary access to Vault’s online content,
as is the case with BYU.
- FindLaw’s Infirmation
(This service provides salary information at firms across the
country.)
NY Chapter Activities
- Speakers Lunches - organized 4 times a year for lawyers and local law students (past speakers have included the Hon. Jay Bybee, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit; Timothy Flanigan, former Deputy White House Counsel; William F. Atkin, Associate General Counsel--International, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; LaVell Edwards, former BYU football Head Coach; Thomas Griffith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit; David Neeleman, CEO of JetBlue; David Checketts, former President of Madison Square Garden.)
- Annual Summer Associates Lunch - organized
in early July of each year; brings together LDS lawyers and summer
associates working in New York
- Annual Summer Associates Barbecue - organized
in July of each year around Pioneer Day; shows summer associates
some of the suburban lifestyle options outside Manhattan for lawyers
working in Manhattan. 2003 NY Summer Associate Barbecue
Photos
- Annual Early Interviewing Days / Summer Associate Dinner
- organized in August of each year when BYU law students participate
in early interviewing at NYC law firms; shows law students and
summer associates a typical lifestyle option in Manhattan.
- Early Interviewing Days Information Sessions
- organized with practicing lawyers at various law firms, investment
banks and other companies in Manhattan, allowing law students
to ask questions about interviewing and landing a job at a New
York legal employer.
Interviewing Tips
Resume Tips [to come]
We encourage you to place a high priority on preparing and perfecting
your resume. Law firms receive literally thousands of resumes each
year and will spend initially only a few seconds looking at your
resume. Poor formatting that fails to prominently state your best
qualifications, grammatical errors, misspellings or typos will prevent
you from getting an interview for a job you might otherwise be qualified.
You should solicit comments from different people throughout the
process of preparing your resume. Your resume should be reviewed
and redrafted in the context of seeking a legal job. For very helpful
tips on preparing your resume, we recommend that you purchase The
Vault Guide to Resumes, Cover Letters and Interviews. In addition,
see the various articles below for guidance on preparing a legal
resume.
In preparing your resume, keep in mind the “30 second /2
inch rule” – many potential employers will look at your
resume for no more than 30 seconds and your most impressive relevant
qualifications should be in the first 2 inches at the top of your
resume. We frequently see resumes where a candidate, who is fluent
in a high demand language or has background in a field that is in
high demand, seems to hide these qualifications in a small bullet
at the bottom of the page, assuming that the reader will scrutinize
the resume. Your resume shouldn’t save the best for last!
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