Albany Law School Boasts 94% Employment for ’08 Grads

Erik Even — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:08:46 +0000

Albany Law School has announced a 94% employment rate in legal positions for its 2008 graduating class, outpacing the national average of 90% for all law schools.

Each year, Albany Law School’s Career Center coordinates more than 1,000 job interviews on campus, as well as many more off campus; processes more than 7,000 job applications; and organizes more than a dozen job fairs.

One third of Albany Law’s 2008 class is employed in New York City, while an additional one third is employed in the greater Capital Region.

Of the 2008 grads, 49% went to law firms; 16% into government; 9% got judicial clerkships; 19% into business and industry. Six percent went into public interest law, and 2% are in academia.

Albany Law School is an ABA accredited law school based in Albany, New York. Founded in 1851 by Robert H. Pruyn and others, Albany Law School is the oldest independent law school in the United States.

Patterson Belknap Partner Elected NY Bar Prez

Erik Even — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:25:42 +0000

Stephen P. Younger, a partner at New York City’s Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, has been elected the 113th President of the New York State Bar Association.

Younger will become President-elect of the NYSBA in June 2009, and will begin serving as President in June 2010.

He will be the third Patterson Belknap partner to become President of the NYSBA. He follows one of the firm’s founders, Chauncey Belknap, and its former partner, US District Court Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr., both of whom previously served in this role.

Younger is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the NYSBA. He is a past chair of the NYSBA’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, having previously served as Chair of its Securities Litigation Committee and of its ADR Committee.

He served as Transition Director for New York State Attorney General, Andrew M. Cuomo. He is Counsel to the New York State Commission on Judicial Nomination, which nominates New York’s Court of Appeals Judges, and is a member of the First Department Judicial Screening Committee. In addition, he serves on the Advisory Committee to the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court.

Younger received his BA degree cum laude from Harvard University and his law degree magna cum laude from Albany Law School where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Albany Law Review.

Patterson Belknap, with 200 lawyers, is one of only four firms to be ranked in the Top 10 of The American Lawyer’s “A-List” of elite firms every year since the list’s inception.

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Albany Law School Boasts 94% Employment for ’08 Grads

Patterson Belknap Partner Elected NY Bar Prez