Writing for Lawyers: Essentials of Effective Legal Writing
Thursday, June 5, 2008
This interactive program created for interns and summer associates teaches specific strategies for writing clear, concise legal documents, whether briefs, memos, letters or emails. Through examples and exercises, participants learn to eliminate common writing weaknesses on four levels: document organization, paragraph construction, sentence structure, and word choice.
SUMMER 2008 RECEPTION and THRIVING AS A SUMMER ASSOCIATE OF COLOR PANEL DISCUSSION
Thursday, June 19, 2008
We are pleased to once again offer the PALS Thriving as an Associate of Color panel. This program will provide students with career development tips to maximize their summer experience. In addition to best practices for doing excellent work, panelist will discuss handling mid-summer evaluations, proper methods of obtaining feedback and developing relationships that will last beyond the summer.

PALS Mission Statement:

PALS is dedicated to enhancing the skills and careers of minority law students and early career attorneys. PALS does this by offering customized mentoring, educational and professional development opportunities. PALS provides resources to augment the law school and employer training of, respectively, minority law students and beginning lawyers, and will continue to offer its services free of charge.

All PALS® programs are offered free of charge to law students. PALS® is a 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization.

Practicing Attorneys for Law Students Program, Inc.
42 West 44th Street
New York, New York 10036
212 730 PALS
info@palsprogram.org
www.palsprogram.org


CAMPAIGN FOR PALS

PALS is pleased to announce that we have received over $350,000 in Leadership Gift pledges to the newly launched Campaign for PALS from the following law firms:

Multi-Year Leadership Gift of $20,000
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
King & Spalding LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
White & Case LLP

Campaign for PALS Leadership Gift of $10,000
Bryan Cave LLP
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Kaye Scholer LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Wilkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Corporate Gift
Estee Lauder

Institutional Gift
City University of New York School of Law
David Rudenstine – Dean, Cardozo School of Law

This is an exciting time for PALS. We encourage all major firms and corporations to build on these gifts by joining forces with PALS in our legal diversity pipeline initiatives.

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