NATIONAL BLACK LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION NORTHEAST REGION WWW . NBLSA . ORG/NEBLSA John-Raphael Pichardo, II CHAIR
Quinnipiac University School of Law
May 21, 2014
Vanessa Coleman VICE CHAIR
Seton Hall University School of Law
Dear Employer,
Shanice Bailey SECRETARY Vermont Law School
Jolevette Mitchell TREASURER Touro College Jacob D. Fuschberg Law Center
S. Mayumi Grigsby CNNE SUB-REGIONAL DIRECTOR
Northeastern University School of Law
Marcia Blake CT SUB-REGIONAL DIRECTOR Quinnipiac University School of Law
Vacant
On behalf of the National Black Law Students Association, Northeast Region (NEBLSA), we cordially invite you to participate in the Annual NEBLSA Job Fair. The 2014 NEBLSA Job Fair will be held on Friday, August 8, 2014 at New York Law School (NYLS), located at 185 West Broadway, New York, NY. Established in 1968, the National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA) is the largest student-run organization in the United States, with over 200 chapters at law schools throughout the country, and more than 6,500 active members. NBLSA seeks to promote and articulate the professional needs and goals of black law students. The Northeast Region is comprised of 33 chapters across eight states and has over 1,100 active members.
NY-METRO SUB-REGIONAL DIRECTOR
Vacant UPSTATE-NY SUB-REGIONAL DIRECTOR
Mickelle Damassia FREDERICK DOUGLASS MOOT COURT COMPETITION DIRECTOR Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Vanessa Domenichelli THURGOOD MARSHALL MOCK TRIAL COMPETITION DIRECTOR Brooklyn Law School
Joy Gary DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP Touro College Jacob D. Fuschberg Law Center
Natasha Beckford PARLIAMENTARIAN Seton Hall University School of Law
Janai Jackson CORPORATE RELATIONS DIRECTOR Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
The Northeast Job Fair is not only an excellent opportunity for organizations to take a proactive approach towards diversity, but it is also a beneficial recruiting tool for organizations to seek exceptional law students from across the nation. Last year, over 60 employers participated in the 2013 NEBLSA Job Fair, while more than 200 diverse law students were interviewed. This year, we seek to expand the Job Fair by including even more employers from a range of practice areas. Please join us in our efforts to increase the number of talented and diverse students entering the legal profession. To register, please sign up on Symplicity, fill out the attached registration form, and return it along with the appropriate payment before Friday, June 27, 2014. Additional details regarding Employer Registration can be found in the following pages. If you have any questions, please contact the Job Fair Coordinator, James Pierre-Louis at (508) 315-9309 or via email at neblsa.jobfair@nblsa.org. We look forward to your support of NEBLSA in August.
James Pierre-Louis JOB FAIR COORDINATOR New York Law School
Sincerely,
John-Raphael Pichardo, II Northeast Regional Chair National Black Law Students Association Email: northeast@nblsa.org Phone: 347-875-7356
James Pierre-Louis Northeast Job Fair Coordinator National Black Law Students Association Email: neblsa.jobfair@nblsa.org Phone: 508-315-9309
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EMPLOYER REGISTRATION INFORMATION Employers must register using Symplicity by visiting https://law-nblsa-csm.symplicity.com/employers/.
IMPORTANT DATES Friday, May 26 (12:00 Noon) – Employer/ Tabling Registration Opens Friday, June 27th (12:00 Noon) – Employer/ Tabling Registration Ends Monday, July 7th (12:00 Noon) — Student Bidding Begins Monday, July 21st(11:59 A.M.) – Student Bidding Ends Tuesday, July 22nd (12:00 Noon) – Employer Selection Period Begins Monday, July 28th (5:00 P.M.) – Employer Selection Period Ends Wednesday, July 30th (12:00 Noon) – Friday, August 1st (6:00 P.M) – Student Interview Acceptance Period *Final Interview Schedules will be released within 7 days after the acceptance period. Friday, August 1st (12:00 Noon) – Registration for Tabling Ends Friday, August 8th (7:30 A.M. – 5:30 P.M.) – NEBLSA Job Fair
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - Friday, August 8, 2014 7:30 A.M. – Student/ Employer Registration Open 7:30 A.M. - 9:00 A.M. – Continental Breakfast 9:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. – Employer Interviews 12:30 P.M. – 1:30 P.M. – Lunch 1:30 P.M. - 5:30 P.M. – Employer Interviews 5:30 PM – 6:30 P.M. - Reception
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REGISTRATION FORM This form should be mailed with your registration fee. Name of Firm/Organization:__________________________________________________________________ Firm/Organization Contact:___________________________________________________________________ Firm/Organization Contact Email:_____________________________________________________________ Firm/Organization Contact Number:___________________________________________________________ Eight (8) twenty-minute (20) interviews will take place during each session with a ten-minute break between each interview. NEBLSA also offers tabling in our information room. During tabling, organizations may collect student resumes; however students may not be interviewed, formally or informally. A maximum of two representatives per table may attend. Because information room space is limited, NEBLSA will accept registration on a first come first served basis. Please indicate which session(s) your firm/organization will be participating in: __Morning: 8:30am- 12:30pm
__Afternoon: 1:30pm- 5:30pm
Please mark and submit a check or money order: ___Large Law Firm (100+ Attorneys) ___Medium Law Firm (51-99 Attorneys) ___Small Law Firm (1-50 Attorneys) ___Corporate Entity ___Public Interest Firm ___Government Agency ___Information Room Tabling Total
$850 per session $750 per session $600 per session $850 per session $275 per session $275 per session $250 (full day)
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PLEASE MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: Northeast Black Law Students Association MAIL TO: Northeast Black Law Students Association P.O. Box 25281 Brooklyn, NY 11202
If you would prefer to pay by Credit Card, Please fill out the top portion along with the Credit Card Authorization Form. Disclaimer: a 3.5% plus 15cents fee will be added to your amount
For Questions or Concerns, contact James Pierre-Louis at neblsa.jobfair@nblsa.org or at 508-315-9309 NOTICE: IF NEBLSA MAKES CHANGES TO ANY OF THE 2014 JOB FAIR POLICIES OR PROCEDURES, WE WILL CONTACT STUDENTS AND EMPLOYERS REGARDING THE CHANGES BY EMAIL OR BY POSTING THE CHANGES ON THE NEBLSA WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WWW.NBLSA.ORG/NEBLSA/. 3
Disclaimer: a 3.5% + 15cents fee will be added.
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HELPFUL INFORMATION
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All registration fees should be received no later than June 27, 2014 and are non-refundable. Employers will be assigned an interview room by the Job Fair committee. All interviews will take place at NYLS. Please ship all interviewing materials to NYLS no earlier than 3 days prior to the NEBLSA Job Fair: New York Law School c/o Northeast Black Law Students Association- Job Fair August 8, 2014 (Your Organization) 185 W. Broadway New York, NY 10013 Please make arrangements to have all interviewing materials returned to your organization. Neither NEBLSA nor NYLS will be responsible for any materials left behind. Please let us know in advance if you require any special arrangements. Your registration will be considered incomplete if any information is missing. Over 6,500 NBLSA members will have access to the NEBLSA Job Fair; students will be limited in the number of bids they can submit to employers.
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Participating Law Schools Represented at the NEBLSA Job Fair NEBLSA serves the following Law Schools in NY, Northern NJ, CT ME, VT, NH, MA & RI:
Albany Law School
Western New England College of Law
Boston College Law School
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Brooklyn Law School
Boston University School of Law
Cornell University Law School
Columbia University School of Law
Fordham University School of Law
CUNY School of Law - Queens College
Harvard Law School
Hofstra University School of Law
Massachusetts School of Law
New England School of Law
New York Law School
New York University School of Law
Northeastern University School of Law
Pace University School of Law
Quinnipiac College School of Law
Roger Williams University School of Law
Rutgers University School of Law – Newark
Seton Hall University School of Law
Southern New England School of Law
St. John's University School of Law
SUNY-Buffalo School of Law
Syracuse University College of Law
Suffolk University School of Law
University of Connecticut School of Law
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Vermont Law School
University of Maine School of Law
Yale Law School
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Past NEBLSA Job Fair Employers: ACLU Alston & Bird Arent Fox Arnold & Porter Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider Baker Botts Bingham McCutchen Blank Rome Bond Schoeneck & King Bressler Amery & Ross Bryan Cave Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft Carmody & Torrence Carter Ledyard & Milburn Center for Family Representation Chadbourne & Parke Cleary Gottlieb Steem & Hamilton Covington & Burling Cravath Swaine & Moore Davis Polk & Wardwell Day Pitney DC 37 Debevoise & Plimpton Dechert Dewey & LeBoeuf Dickstein Shapiro Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto Fried Frank Harris Schriver & Jacobson Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis Greenberg Traurig Harris Beach Harter Secrest Heller Erhman Jones Day Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman Kelley Drye Kaye Scholer Kenyon & Kenyon King & Spaulding Kirkland & Ellis Legal Assistance Corp of Central Mass Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps Mayer Brown McCarter English
McKee Nelson Meyer Suozzi English & Klein Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy Morgan Lewis Bockius New Hampshire Public Defender NJ AG NJ Judiciary NJ Judiciary NYC Law Dept NYCLU NYC DA NYLPI NYS 4th Dept NYC Dept. of Homeless NYC DOI IRS Office of Comptroller of Currency Paul Hastings Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw & Pittman Porzio Bromberg & Newman Proskauer Rose Queens DA Reed Smith Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke Schulte Roth & Zabel Shearman & Sterling Shipman & Goodwin Sills Cummis Epstein & Gorss Sidley Austin Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett Connecticut Judiciary Strook & Strook Sullivan & Cromwell Thatcher Profitt & Wood The Bronx Defenders Legal Aid Unitd States Attorneys SEC White & Case Wilmer Hale Winston & Strawn Willkie Farr & Gallagher (NY) Willkie Farr & Gallagher (DC)
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DIRECTIONS TO NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL BY SUBWAY: 7th Avenue line 1 (local) to Franklin Street. Exit at Varick Street and West Broadway. Walk one block south on West Broadway. The School is located on West Broadway between Worth and Leonard Streets. 2, 3 (express) to Chambers Street. Exit at West Broadway and walk four blocks north on West Broadway. Lexington Avenue line 4, 5 (express) and 6 (local) to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall. Exit at Foley Square.Walk north two blocks to Worth Street and west four blocks to West Broadway. 8th Avenue line A (express) and C (local) to Chambers Street. Exit at Church Street. Walk four blocks north on Church Street to Worth Street. Walk one block west to West Broadway. E (local) to Canal Street; change for the A or C to Chambers Street. Avenue of Americas (6th Ave.) line B, D, Q (express) and F (local) to West 4th Street/Washington Square. Change at West 4th Street for the A or C to Chambers Street. Broadway line W, R (local) to City Hall. Exit on Broadway and walk north on Broadway to Worth Street. Walk west on Worth Street two blocks to West Broadway. Nassau Street Line J, Z (express) and M (local) to Chambers Street. Exit at Foley Square. Walk north two blocks to Worth Street and west four blocks to West Broadway. By PATH: Exit the PATH Station at World Trade Center and walk straight on West Broadway. The post office should be on your right and continue walking for about 10 mins and NYLS will be on your right. BY BUS: M1, M6 south to Broadway and Worth Street. Walk one block north to Leonard, then two blocks west to West Broadway. M20 south to West Broadway and Worth Street.
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BY CAR: From the Harlem River Drive/FDR Drive Take Exit 2 (Brooklyn Bridge/Civic Center). Bear right toward Civic Center and proceed down ramp. Make a right at the light onto St. James Place. Go straight; at the third light (street ends), make a left onto Worth Street. Continue for approximately six blocks to West Broadway. From the Henry Hudson Parkway West Side Highway Take the Chambers Street exit. Follow Chambers Street three blocks and make a left onto Church Street. Follow Church Street five blocks to Leonard Street. Make a left onto Leonard Street. Go one block west to the corner of Leonard and West Broadway. From the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel At the exit of the tunnel, bear right onto Trinity Place. (Trinity Place becomes Church Street after the World Trade Center site.) Move to the far left lane. Continue on Church Street to Leonard Street. (Leonard Street is five blocks past Chambers Street.) Make a left onto Leonard Street and go one block west to the corner of Leonard and West Broadway. From the Holland Tunnel Stay in the middle lane and take the “Downtown� exit. Make a right onto Varick Street. (Varick Street becomes West Broadway.) Continue on West Broadway two blocks to Leonard Street. From the Lincoln Tunnel Take the West Side Highway south. (Refer to directions from West Side Highway above.) *Airport Transportation is available through airline shuttle or via taxi services. ACCESSIBILITY: Parking There are a number of parking garages in the neighborhood for fee-paid parking. On-street parking is extremely limited. New York Law School is wheelchair accessible.
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DISCLAIMER By registering for the NEBLSA Job Fair you agree to notify the Job Fair Coordinator, James Pierre-Louis, NO LATER THAN THREE DAYS BEFORE THE JOB FAIR, in the event that your organization is unable attend. If your primary interviewer cannot attend, you must send an alternate interviewer to interview students in your place. If an alternate interviewer cannot attend, or if for any other reason the interviewer in attendance fails to interview a student at the student’s scheduled time, the organization agrees to contact each student affected to schedule a subsequent interview at your office or an office near the city in which the student resides at a date no later than September 1, 2014. Failure to do so may affect your participation in future NEBLSA job fairs. IN AN EFFORT FOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, A SURVEY WILL BE INCLUDED WITH THE JOB FAIR MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED TO EACH EMPLOYER ON THE DAY OF THE JOB FAIR REQUESTING INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE.
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