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A FEW GOOD MEN AND WOMEN
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DOING REAL WORK
IN THE LAW

Analyst

If you want to be a lawyer, but first want a job after college where you can grow and learn while doing justice, contact us..

Balestriere Lanza PLLC is a New York trials and investigations law firm with a public service focus. We need analysts who are recent college graduates to work alongside our lawyers and law clerks in investigating fraud and misconduct, initiating cases, drafting legal documents, prosecuting actions, handling marketing and organizational responsibilities, and doing whatever we need to move our cases and the firm forward.

We represent individuals, companies, and classes of people in all kinds of cases where our clients have suffered from some injustice. As private attorneys general, we use the civil justice system to obtain some remedy for those injured, and provide a disincentive to those who commit fraud and misconduct from doing so in the future. Our adversaries are amongst the largest law firms in the world, and we investigate and sue the world’s largest companies.

Requirements

Analysts must be serious about their commitment to the firm, to their cases, and to all of their work. This is a job. It is not school, even if exposure, training, and simply learning are integral parts of the experience. Poor attitude, missed deadlines, or, especially, a lack of respect for fellow law firm staff, clients, witnesses, or anyone else is a basis for immediate termination.

Analysts must have a serious commitment to public service - while we are organized as a private law firm, we are devoted to the public service in the cases we choose to work on. Analysts must also be creative - we will rely on you to develop case ideas and work on legal documents that appear in court. This is not a place for automatons.

Analysts also must pay attention to detail, possess excellent writing and research skills, be ready to take initiative, work well in teams, be willing to do whatever work is necessary for a given matter or research project, be prepared to work on multiple tasks simultaneously, and have a good sense of humor so they can thrive in an untraditional law firm environment.

General hours are 9:30am to 6:30pm. There will occasionally be later hours or weekend work if you are on a major project or trial. But this is not a finance job - you will have a life outside of work.

Analysts must be able to start by no later than late July or early August 2009 and commit to work for two full years.

Benefits

Pay is in the low to mid-$30,000 range. All staff receive full medical insurance at no cost, as well as two weeks paid vacation and generous personal and sick leave that treats you like a professional. And we have lots of social events in the greatest City in the world.

Application Procedure

Applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, writing sample, an unofficial copy of an up to date transcript, and contact information for at least three references (including at least one employer reference) to recruiting@balestriere.net as soon as possible. Write “Internship Application” and the period of time in which you're interested in the subject heading of the e-mail.

Note: we are visiting select colleges near New York and will let you know if we are in our response to your e-mail.

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