2015 Moritz Viewbook

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Career

Services

The career services staff is committed to helping students find the best job fit possible through counseling individual students, helping identify appropriate legal career options, providing training in job search skills, and offering many sources of employment opportunities. Interviewing Because students have a wide array of interests, Moritz offers many opportunities to interview in both the public and private sectors. Each year, Moritz offers an on-campus interviewing program, multiple off-campus programs, and an opportunity forum focused on the public sector.

who apply for judicial clerkships; and four advisors with backgrounds in both the private and public sectors. Four of our advisors have earned law degrees. The advisor-student relationship begins with working toward employment for the 1L summer and continues with job searching until the student has secured a position after graduation.

Individualized Counseling

Mentoring

Beginning in November of the first year, Moritz students are assigned an advisor who partners with them throughout their law school careers. Students benefit from the broad range of expertise of the counseling staff, which includes the senior director, who has more than 15 years of experience in major New York law firms; the director of public service and public interest, who also works with students

There are many mentoring opportunities at Moritz. Alumni and practitioners often serve as speakers and mentors at career services events. The Mentoring & More @ Moritz program also brings together students and lawyers at lunches multiple times throughout the school year. Over half of Moritz students participate in the mentoring programs for all three of their law school years.

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