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As part of its 150th anniversary commemoration, the New York City Bar Association is undertaking an examination of the City Bar’s history of excluding certain groups from membership and leadership in the Association. While the City Bar has a long and proud history of advocating for the civil rights of a broad range of marginalized groups, like society as a whole and the legal profession itself, our internal practices have not always aligned with our current values of diversity. Even while we now have a diverse Board of Directors and increasingly heterogeneous leadership and membership, we have been imperfect. An important aspect of this project is to provide City Bar members with an opportunity to describe examples of exclusion and marginalization they may have experienced. If you are a City Bar member, please respond to the question listed below about your personal experience at the City Bar by April 30, 2021 by emailing your response to Samantha Lyons. Any experiences shared will be without attribution unless your consent to use identifying information is explicitly sought.

 

Interested in grading law school briefs and brainstorming on topics for next year's Competition? Admitted within the past five years? Consider joining the ranks of the New Lawyer's Moot Court Committee. For more information on how to join, please contact Stephanie Glazer, Moot Court Program Administrator.

The Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Lawyers sponsors the City Bar’s 1L Diversity Fellowship Program. The goal of the Fellowship Program is to offer law students from under-represented populations a unique summer employment opportunity in outstanding New York City law firms and corporate law departments after their first year of law school. The Committee works throughout the year to successfully develop and administer the Fellowship Program. Contact Co-chairs, Muhammad A. Faridi and Michele Cerezo-Natal, if you are interested in joining this committee. 

Internal Counsel, Legal & Compliance

*City of New York, New York, NY

Assistant Counsel

General Counsel

Law Student (for student)

Ella Baker Summer Internship Program (for law students)

General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Vice President of Legal Affairs

Mid-level Bankruptcy & Restructuring Attorney (ref: JR-1155)

Mid-level Corporate/PE Funds Attorney (ref:JR-1509)

Mid-level Structured Finance Attorney (ref: JR-722)

Corporate/ Insurance M&A Contract Attorney (ref: JR-483)

Pro Bono Attorney for Systemic Racial Justice Initiatives

Global DEI OGC Law Student Internship Program

Director of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Honorable Dora L. Irizarry, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of NY

*Ford Foundation

Department Coordinator (R780)

Program Officer: Gender, Racial and Ethnic Justice (R772)

*Fordham University, New York, New York

Senior Associate, Strategic Sourcing

Fragomen, New York, NY

Business Immigration Analyst (Assistant Paralegal)

Business Immigration Associate

Legal Staff Paralegal

Legal Billing Coordinator

Mid-Level Associate, Real Estate

*Goldman Sachs

Legal, Bank Regulatory Attorney, Vice President

Executive Director

Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), New York, NY

Development and Communications Coordinator

Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT), New York, NY

Institutional Advancement Coordinator

Lerch Early & Brewer, Bethesda, MD

Business/Transactions Attorney

Director of Pro Bono Initiatives, City Bar Justice Center

Executive Director, Office for Diversity and Inclusion

*New York State Office of the Attorney General, New York City and Albany, NY

Assistant Attorney General (multiple positions)

Chief, Antitrust Bureau

Deputy Bureau Chief, Health and Human Services Practice Group

Deputy Bureau Chief, Law Enforcement Practice Group

Senior Counsel, Division of Economic Justice

*Nixon Peabody

Affordable Housing Associate

Health Care Transactional Associate

Regeneron, Tarrytown, NY

Associate Director, Dispute Resolution – Litigation Attorney

*Robin Hood, New York, NY

Graphic Designer

Director, Planned Giving

Attorney Advisor

Senior Officer - Deputy Chief Counsel

Senior Officer - Supervisory General Attorney

*The Innocence Project

Staff Attorney, Post-Conviction Litigation

*The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY

Criminal Defense Practice

Civil Practice

Juvenile Rights Practice

*U.S. Bank

Regulatory Attorney, Assistant General Counsel (Position number: 200022946)

Executive Director

*Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

Communications Officer

*Westchester County District Attorney’s Office, Westchester, NY

Attorney Positions - Email your cover letter and resume to Victor Olds, First Deputy District Attorney.

The Executive Institute on Inclusion (EII) is a program where corporate America works together with our faculty and channel partners to achieve equity and advance opportunities for all. All across the country, companies that engage with the EII will:

To learn more, view this flyer and contact Tiffany Archer , Faculty Member, Executive Institute on Inclusion.

Nonprofit New York, New York, NY

Nonprofit New York hosts a wide range of trainings from planning and evaluation to financial management to fundraising and resource development to communications and more. All trainings are open to staff or board member of a current Nonprofit New York member organization and non-member organization.

Leg Up Legal discovered a legal mentoring program called Leg Up Legal focused on improving diversity at the earliest levels of the legal talent pipeline. Leg Up Legal's program connects prospective law students to attorney mentors to help them learn more about the legal profession, build their first professional relationships, and find support for their future careers. The program targets prospective law students who are underrepresented minorities, first-generation students, and low-income students. They are currently looking for more volunteer attorney mentors. To learn more about the program and sign-up, please visit www.leguplegal.com/attorneys. 

Looking to donate some of your time to create access for Black individuals who want to get into or grow within the startup and/or marketing world? Sign up!

Do you believe in the transformative power of art and community to create change? Are you a committed individual who values centering the voices, cultures, imaginations, knowledge, and leadership of people of color (POC)?  If so, we invite you to explore the possibility of LP board service!

Dear Future Colleague (DFC) is a new non-profit that seeks to address educational inequity by providing guidance to underrepresented students applying to graduate school (starting with law school as a pilot program) and competitive scholarships. While the American education system is often referred to as a “meritocracy,” pervasive systemic barriers prevent the application process from being a level playing field. DFC seeks to help change that. 

DFC is also seeking current law students or alumni who were themselves underrepresented applicants that would be willing to share their application experience or law school/career journey in order to help inspire others. Please contact Nancy Fairbank if you are interested in sharing your story, or if you'd like to learn more DFC and how to get involved.

iMentor is seeking mentors to work with students for the 2020-2021 school year. iMentor is a college access and success organization that leverages the power of one-to-one mentor-mentee relationships to help students achieve their college and post-secondary goals. Many students have been affected by the current COVID-19 crisis, with their personal and academic lives severely affected. They need mentors now more than ever to help guide them through these challenging times.

The Belonging Project is seeking volunteer mentors, who will be paired with law students and/or lawyers who sign up requesting a mentor. As a mentor your role is to lean on your experience and knowledge and be available to answer questions, give advice, and talk through with your mentees' obstacles they may be trying to navigate. If you sign up as a mentor we ask that you:

Want to take action for immigrant children at risk? The Safe Passage Project is looking for 250 new pro bono attorneys to represent immigrant children at risk. Prior immigration experience is NOT required.  Sign up to learn more.