Category: Events

Citywide Student DisOrientation at NYU Law School on Saturday, September 29 (FREE!)

NLG-NYC 2012 DisOrientation

Organized by (progressive/radical) law students from across the city, for law students across the city. It’s free (but please RSVP)! Here are the essentials:

NLG-NYC DisOrientation
Saturday, September 29, 2012
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
NYU Law School
40 Washington Square

Session topics include: Don’t Survive, Thrive!, Co-Ops, Start-Ups, and Solos: Alternative Careers!, Mediation and Mindfulness in the Law 101, Pro Bono Project Trainings: Legal Observer, Street Law, and Immigration Court Observer, Speakers on anti-racist work in the law, Stop & Frisk, and more!

    Enjoy a happy hour reception with awesome members of the city chapter of the NLG at Amity Hall (80 W. 3rd Street, Manhattan)!

    Review the DisOrientation schedule and RSVP today!

    Join us at the NLG-NYC Spring Fling on June 1, 2012!

    Online ticket sales have ended. Please purchase your tickets at the door.

    Photo by Chang W. Lee/The New York Times/Redux

    Angel Orensanz Arts Foundation • 6-10 PM • 172 Norfolk Street, New York, NY

    Tickets $120 • Low Income $65 • Students $35*

    Cocktails, Entrees and Hors D’oeuvres • Live Entertainment and Dancing

    RSVP by May 30 • Deadline for ads: May 1

    For information call 212-679-6018 or email [email protected]

    DOWNLOAD INVITATION LETTER & HONOREE BIOS

    DOWNLOAD EVITE HERE

    *To find out about further discounts for student members contact [email protected] by April 15

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    OWS Activist Legal Working Group to Host Open Forum with NLG-NYC on Tuesday, January 3rd

    OWS Activist Legal Working Group (OWS-ALWG) and the National Lawyers Guild-NYC Chapter (NLG-NYC) Invites OWS to the first in a series of open forum meetings

    January 3, 2012
    5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
    56 Walker Street
    New York, NY

    OWS ALWG wrote:

    Come join us and discuss your OWS legal needs with the NLG-NYC Chapter! Come hear an update from NLG-NYC Chapter on the legal front so far!

    This meeting is to open up a dialogue between OWS and the NLG-NYC Chapter to get a sense of where OWS might need some legal help and the ways NLG-NYC might be able to help us out.

    Did you want to discuss your arrest or criminal case? This is NOT that meeting! (Don’t worry, that meeting is coming soon.)

    Did you want to talk about other legal stuff? Police misconduct? Individual property damaged in the raid? Does your working group need legal advice? Then this IS that meeting!

    ** This open forum will be facilitated by OWS Think Tank – thanks Think Tank!

    Questions? Contact OWS ALWG: [email protected]

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    Anti-Racism Committee to Host Fundraising Party on July 28 in Brooklyn

    Help support the NLG-NYC’s Anti-Racism Committee’s (ARC) fundraising initiative for the Student, Recent Grad and Legal Worker of Color Travel Stipend to the NLG’s National Convention in October 2011.

    NLG-NYC ARC works to further the Guild’s commitment to racial justice. Fundraising for the travel stipend is an important component of anti-racist work in the Guild because it promotes the legal education, viewpoints, and work of people of color within our membership and programs as well as the radical community at large.

    The Fundraising Party will be held on Thursday, July 28, from 6:00pm to 10:00pm, at Berry Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn! The suggested donation is $10 – $250. Donations will be accepted by credit card, cash or check.

    If you are unable to attend, please help support the next generation of students, lawyers, and legal workers of color by donating and encouraging friends and colleagues to donate what they can and spread the word to others. Make an online donation!

    Next Gen Mentorship Project Mixer – June 1st

    Join the NLG-NYC Next Gen Mentorship Project members on Wednesday, June 1st to thank its founding members and welcome future participants to the program. Food, drinks and good company will abound at the National Lawyers Guild National Office, 132 Nassau Street, Room 922, in Manhattan from 6:00 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.

    The Mentorship Project will be restarted in the fall of 2011 to coincide with the start of the school year. Mentors are needed to revamp the program, so please sign up! In the future, the Project’s coordinators will organize quarterly meet-ups and keep all mentors and mentees on a September – June schedule.