Dear Member,
Welcome to our weekly newsletter full of the most current and upcoming events!
Current Accomplishments/News
SAVE THE DATE!
NYCPA and National Corporate Research, Ltd.
invite members of NYCPA to attend free seminar:
UCC FILING UNDER REVISED ARTICLE 9
TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2008
6:15 PM TO 7:15 PM
Location: 10 East 40th Street (between 5th and Madison Avenue), 10th Floor
The seminar includes brief background on Uniform Commercial Code Article 9, key points on how to prepare and file UCCs Under Revised Article 9, information of where to file and effective life of filings Under Revised Article 9 as well as review of Key Points and reserved a time for questions and answers.
If you plan to attend: please reserve by e-mailing to
There are a few more seats still available! Please reserve your spot ASAP. Seating is limited! If you have already reserved your spot and cannot make it, please notify before the event.
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Committees News
Membership Committee:
Did you renew your membership?
In order to be eligible to attend UCC Filing Under Revised Article 9 seminar as well as many other upcoming events, you need to be
a member of NYCPA!
Please submit your renewing membership applications via a number of options available. Renewing membership application forms are accessible through the front page of our website at: Please use one of three options listed below:
OPTION 1
Mail a copy of your completed renewing membership application with check/money order to:
New York City Paralegal Association
P.O. Box 4484
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163-4484
OPTION 2
Send your completed membership form as a PDF file to: and submit
payment via our PAYPAL Payment Center that is also accessible on the front page of our website at:
OPTION 3
Send your completed membership form as a PDF file to: and submit payment
via check or money order to:
New York City Paralegal Association
P.O. Box 4484
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163-4484
If you choose the option 2 or 3, please indicate that you will be sending payment separately in the email you submit to the membership chairperson.
PAYMENT AMOUNTS:
The following breakdown provides the amounts that renewing members are required to pay for the different classes of membership:
1) ACTIVE/VOTING MEMBERS: $45.00
2) ASSOCIATE MEMBERS: $38.00
3) STUDENT MEMBERS: $30.00
Mentor Program Committee:
very much everyone who participated in our Mentoring Program Recruitment Survey!
Below is a summary of your responses:
50% and 34.6% of our respondents are very interested or somewhat interested in the Mentoring Program;
53.8% of respondents would like to participate in our program as a Mentor and 38.5% as a Mentee;
Among our respondents 65.4% employed as paralegals, including in: litigation (53.8%), corporate (30.8%), real estate and criminal law (26.9% and 23.1% respectively), administrative, trust/estates, intellectual property and banking (15.4% in each), insurance (11.5%), bankruptcy, labor and immigration (7.7% in each), family/matrimonial, employment, financial services, tax and securities/blue sky (3.8% in each). W didn’t have representatives in benefits and environmental law at the time of the survey.
Our respondents:
have 8+ years of experience as paralegals (42.3%);
23.1% of respondents are at mid-level (3-5 years) of their experience; and
23.1% of our respondents never worked as a paralegal;
23.1% of our respondents are students and 11.5% are paralegals changing practice areas;
Through the Mentoring Program, our respondents want to get: moral support (57.7%), help in finding first job (50%), help with resume/interview skills (38.5%), more information on continuing legal education (34.6%), help with school/work assignments (26.9%), more information on new areas of law/changing practices (26.9% each); and 15.4% answers were under the category “other” and combined school/work assignments and continuing legal education.
The ways of how to utilize the Mentoring Program were suggested as below:
42.3% would like to have one-on-one contacts between mentor and mentee;
30.8% prefers team/group contacts, and
26.9% prefers to have e-mail communications; and
Three of our respondents would like to utilize all thee options given.
In addition to answers to our questions, we received three (3) comments to the survey. All of them were positive and encouraging to work and implement the Program!
The Committee is working on developing of applications for our future mentors and mentees. The applications will be accessible through our website.
Our goal is to create a pool of mentors with the opportunity for mentees to choose mentors. Pairs will be matched based on practice area/interest and geographical location. To qualify as a mentor, a person must be a current active NYCPA member for at least six months and have been practicing as a paralegal for at least one year. In order to be paired with a mentor, a person must be a current active or student member of NYCPA.
For more information and if you have any questions and/or comments, please e-mail us at .
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Help us to help you! Does your office look for interns? Please let us know by e-mail to or
Events Committee:
WE NEED YOUR HELP IN PLANNING OUR FUTURE EVENTS!
⇨Please let us know what classes and events you would like to see in the future.
⇨Do you have experienced that you would like to share with your fellow paralegals? Tell us and we will be happy to schedule a class.
⇨We are planning our special summer schedule:
1.A trip to a Long Island Vineyard scheduled for August 23, 2008 (cost for members: approx. $45).
The Wine Country tour originally scheduled for August 23 has been canceled due to track work.We apologize for the inconvenience"
For more information, check:
- A cooking class at Camje restaurant. Any type of cuisine desired – from Northern Italian to Indian! The class is “hands on” and only 6 cooks are permitting (cost for members: approx. $150); however, guests are welcome for an additional cost of $40 per person.
All trips listed above are open to non-members!
Please let us know by e-mailing to . Do not forget to put "Summer NYCPA OutingsIdeas" in the headline and let us know what you think.
Job Bank Committee:
Looking for paralegal in your area? Looking for a job? Just look at the job bank at
to register at our Web-based career center that connects job seekers with prospective employers in the paralegal field.
NYCPA’s Job Bank distinguishes itself from generalist job boards in a number of ways. It’s highly targeted with a focus on employment opportunities for paralegal professionals in the metropolitan New York area. This makes the difficult task of finding highly skilled, experienced legal candidates easier. Recruiters can focus their recruitment advertisement and target their exact paralegal audience – thus improving their recruiting ROI. The Job Bank also has an anonymous resume system that enables job candidates to stay connected to the paralegal marketplace while maintaining full control over their confidential information.
NYCPA is your professional organization.
Get involved, join the Leadership Team today!!!
We are looking for paralegals with interest in marketing, website design, website utilization, and human resources.
The following positions are still available: Nomination Chairperson and Scholarship Chairperson.
Please prepare/write a short paragraph describing your interest in any of these positions. Include any skills you have that can be offered to the committee of your choice.
Please submit your interest for the position to: .
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Do you have any news to share with your fellow Paralegals? Did you recently graduate? Start a new job? Been promoted? Married or had a child?
Share the good newswithour community!
CONTACT US:
If you have any questions and/or comments, please never hesitate to contact our Board Members at addresses listed below
July 29, 2008
NYCPA Board of Directors
New York City Paralegal Association, Inc.
July 29, 2008