Alumni & Friends

About Us

Our nine attorney-counselors help graduates to market themselves effectively, substantially increasing their success in the job market. Individual counseling is the centerpiece of our work. During these sessions, our professional staff monitors and guides career development; helps graduates find employment; hones interviewing skills; refines resume and cover letter writing; and helps develop dynamic career strategies.

Supplementing the Career Center's emphasis on individual counseling are extensive resources. Symplicity, our online jobs database, provides access to thousands of job listings and allows graduates to search for employment from practically anywhere. The Career Center also maintains an impressive resource library and offers graduates lifetime access to an on-campus Career Center Computer Room.

Contact Us

Career Center
One Boerum Place, 2nd Floor
Telephone: (718) 780-7963
Fax: (718) 780-0374
Email: career@brooklaw.edu

Mailing Address:
Brooklyn Law School
Career Center
250 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn NY 11201

Office Hours
Monday-Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Counseling by appointments

Brooklyn Law School Career Services Office is pleased to offer a three-part series on career management, growth, and change for experienced alumni. These programs will all take place at Brooklyn Law School, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Changing Jobs in the New Economy
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
RSVP: Online Now

Looking to change jobs?  Searching for a job in 2010 requires a proactive approach and strategic thinking.   Our panel of practitioners and career development professionals will provide you with tips on how to market yourself in the new economy.  Topics will include advanced networking techniques and resume and cover letter writing for experienced attorneys.

 
Thinking of Going Solo?  Considerations for Starting a Solo or Small Firm Partnership
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
RSVP: Save the Date; e-mail invitation to follow

As legal costs continue to rise, more and more clients of every size and type are turning to smaller firms to meet their legal needs.  If you are considering starting your own practice, or joining with a few colleagues to start a small firm, come hear our panel of practitioners and small firm advisors discuss considerations for starting a practice.  Topics will include how to choose a business entity, whether to go solo or join with a partner, the nuts and bolts of setting up a practice, and how to develop a client base and business plan. 

Advance Your Career without Changing Jobs
Date: Tuesday, November 30
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
RSVP: Save the Date; e-mail invitation to follow
 
Advancing your career does not always require changing jobs.  In this program geared for junior to mid-level associates at small to mid-size firms, we will discuss various professional development considerations such as how to get the most out of your current position, how to make yourself valuable and indispensable to your employer, how to recognize and obtain the skills you need to succeed, and marketing and business development basics for associates. 

The Simplicity of Symplicity

The goal is to get your resume in front of an employer in record time and our Symplicity database system eases the process.

Viewing post-graduate positions is as easy as using your student ID to log onto your Symplicity homepage -- a web-based job database system that allows you to:

• Review new job listings.
• Upload your resume, cover letters, and unofficial transcripts
  for submission to employer listings.
• Receive automatic alerts when a posted job fits your search
  criteria.
• Stay updated on all career development events.

Career Center Library
In addition to the Internet as a primary information source, we maintain and constantly update an impressive Resource Library of the latest books, directories, and periodicals that provide information about a wide variety of legal employers and practice areas. The Library also includes a collection of books on general career planning and job search strategies.

Manual/Handouts
The Career Center Manual (PDF) gives an overview of all of the available resources through the Career Center, as well as sample job application documents. We have also developed a number of handouts that serve as resource guides on specific practice areas, job search skills, timelines, and employers.

List a Position

We welcome listings of your open positions. You may request that we collect and send resumes to you, or that we instruct the students and/or graduates to send their materials to you directly. We also accept confidential listings. The choice of listing method is yours. You may complete our online job listing form and email it to us, or email or fax us your own job listing description. In addition, the Career Center uses the Symplicity password protected database, through which you may register with us and list your positions directly into our password-protected database. When you list a job with us, your listing will appear in our database within 24 hours.

On-Campus Interviewing

We invite interested employers to participate in interviews on-campus through our formal Fall On-Campus Interviewing (OCI) Program, or throughout the school year. The OCI Program is sponsored in two interviewing sessions—an early interview week in mid-August, and the regular season from late August through September. We do not use a lottery system, so the choice of interviewing candidates is all yours. The registration fee is $250 regardless of how many schedules you take. The fees we collect are contributed to our scholarship fund. If you are unable to come to campus, we offer interviews via video conferencing technology through Law School Connect, or we can collect resumes for you from interested students and send them to you in one package.

Programs, Workshops and Receptions
The career information programs that we host throughout the academic year offer employers numerous opportunities to introduce themselves to Brooklyn Law School students. These include participation in one of more of our many informational or practice area programs, or our highly successful 'Getting to Know You' lunches or receptions that we host at the Law School for individual employers.

Senior Staff
 
Camille Chin-Kee-Fatt, Esq., Director of the Career Center

Elizabeth Kane, Esq., Director of Public Service Office

Employer Relations Specialists

Jill Backer, Esq., Associate Director for Employer Relations

Danielle Sorken, Esq., Associate Director for Government Relations

Career Counselors
 
Dina Adler, Esq., Associate Director of Career Services

Mary Walsh-Fitzpatrick, Esq.,  Associate Director of Career Services

Megan Sheetz, Esq.,  Associate Director of Career Services

Steven Gordon, Esq.,  Associate Director of Career Services

Susan Bainnson, Esq., Associate Director of Career Services

Tamara Stephen, Esq., Associate Director of Career Services