Young Lawyers Section

Electronically In Touch

Published 12 times per year, Electronically In Touch features advice, guidance, and tips useful to the young lawyer both professionally and personally; includes “nuts and bolts” information about substantive legal issues; highlights cases and decisions of interest; provides updates from the Executive Committee; offers opportunities for career, professional, and leadership development; and lists a calendar of events.  In addition, the newsletter highlights some of the interesting and noteworthy things young attorneys and law students are doing from around the state, and serves as a forum for keeping the membership informed about Section and Association activities, news, programs, benefits, and services.

Article/Content Submission

Electronically In Touch welcomes articles from members of the legal profession on subjects of interest to New York State young lawyers.  If you are interested in sharing your articles, advice, guidance, and/or tips, please send them to Justin Batten, Editor-In-Chief at [email protected] . Electronically In Touch is a monthly publication.

Please submit articles no later than the 20th of the month.

Beginning in 2011, Electronically In Touch is available in blog format only.

Now That You’ve Turned 18

Through the Committee on Public Service and Pro Bono, the Young Lawyers Section has produced a publication, “Now That You’ve Turned 18,”which is being made available to parents and senior high school students to give them an overview of their basic legal rights and responsibilities. This is one example of how the Section fulfills its goal of promoting involvement of young lawyers in public service projects that increase access to justice and the public’s knowledge of the law. We depend on your talents to help further the Section’s activities. It’s one more reason why you should become involved.

Perspective

The Young Lawyers Section print newsletter (Perspective) is published by the Young Lawyers Section and distributed to Section Members free of charge. Edited by Keri Mahoney, Esq., Perspective features substantive legal articles on current issues in all areas of practice, offers more in-depth treatment of professional development, career and networking topics, and provides a forum for expressing opinions and/or commentary on issues affecting young lawyers.

Perspective is published as a benefit for members of the Young Lawyers Section and is copyrighted by the New York State Bar Association. The copying, reselling, duplication, transferring, reproducing, reusing, retaining or reprinting of this Newsletter is strictly prohibited without permission. © New York State Bar Association. All rights reserved. ISSN 0743-6475 (print) ISSN 1933-8511 (online)

Perspective encourages article submissions on topics of interest to members of the Section. Writing an article for a NYSBA Section publication is a great way to get your name out in the legal community and advertise your knowledge. Our authors are respected state-wide for their legal expertise, and have written articles on such topics as mentoring; balancing job and family; young lawyers in a down economy; and ethics.

MCLE credit may also be earned for legal-based writing directed to an attorney audience upon application to the CLE Board. NYSBA Guidelines for Obtaining MCLE Credit for Writing as well as a Publication Credit Application are available.

If you have written an article and would like to have it considered for publication in Perspective, please send it in electronic document format (pdfs are NOT acceptable), along with biographical information to:

Norina Melita, Esq.
[email protected]

Please note that any articles previously published in another forum will need written permission from that publisher before they can be reprinted in Perspective.