WE’RE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD MEN AND WOMEN WHO WANT
A REAL JOB DOING REAL WORK IN THE LAW

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

Balestriere Fariello is a New York trials and investigations law firm with a public service focus. We need analysts who are current college seniors to work alongside our lawyers and apprentices 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, institutions, 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. We also represent business clients, almost always those forced to sue because of another's misconduct. 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 colleagues, to their cases and clients, 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, consistently 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 their own integrity and 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 be very reliable, pay attention to detail, possess excellent writing and research skills, be ready to take initiative, work well in teams - but also be able to slog away on a given project by themselves, be willing to do whatever work is necessary for a given matter, be prepared to work on multiple tasks simultaneously, and have a good sense of humor so they can thrive in an untraditional yet professional and hard working environment.

General hours are 9:30am to 6:30pm. There certainly will be later hours or weekend work, but often because you prefer to put in more time to finish your work. This is not a clock-watching 9-to-5-and-run job. But this is not a supposedly "high-powered", "prestigious" job - whatever exactly that is, either. Your work should be important to you, but you will have a life outside of work.

Analysts must be able to start in September 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, a paid week off during the holidays, and generous personal and sick leave that treats you like a professional. All analysts participate in the firm's developing in-office training program. And we have lots of social events in the greatest City in the world.

Application Procedure

Applicants should submit the following to recruiting@balestriere.net as soon as possible

• cover letter,
• resume,
• writing sample,
• unofficial copy of an up to date transcript, and
• contact information for at least three references (including at least one employer reference).

Write “Analyst Application” in the subject heading of the e-mail.

Note: We are visiting select colleges in the Northeast in the late winter and early spring 2009 and will let you know if we shall visit your college in our response to your e-mail.

More Information

For more information check out our website at www.balestriere.net.