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Biglaw Firm Offers Students Who Didn't Get Summer Associate Jobs The Chance To Work As 'Virtual' Summer Associates

This is an awesome résumé line -- minus the Biglaw cash, of course.

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We see this as an extremely valuable learning exercise for these students to well prepare them to finish out the second and or third year of law school and have on their resume a very valuable experience having worked through and lived through this simulated exercise over eight weeks.

[It will be] just like being a summer associate in a law firm.

— Michael Volpe, co-chair of Venable’s labor and employment practice group, commenting on the firm’s simulated summer associate experience at a “virtual” law firm. Venable has teamed up with New York Law School to create and put on this eight-week training program in record time. “I think people recognize what this summer means to a large group of law students who otherwise will lose their summer and will lose out on tremendous opportunities,” said Anthony Crowell, dean of NYLS.

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