"How to Become a Labor Lawyer"
Bruce Gitlin and Bennet Zurofsky speak with students at Rutgers Newark Photo by Arieh Lebowitz
February 24, 2016: Newark, NJ - Students at Rutgers School of Law-Newark heard from two labor and employment law attorneys at the third of an ongoing series of campus-based programs bringing together Jewish and non-Jewish law students and labor lawyers. These discussions are designed to expose law students to the field of labor-side law and work as lawyers in defense of workers' rights. The spirited discussion was cosponsored by the Jewish Labor Committee (JLC), Rutgers Newark's Jewish Law Student Association (JLSA), and Rutgers Newark's Labor and Employment Law Society (LELS). This is the third such program cosponsored by the Jewish Labor Committee: in January, law students met with four attorneys at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey at an event sponsored with the Seton Hall Law School's JLSA and the school's Employment Law Forum; last December, law students met in Manhattan at New York University's Law School with two labor attorneys at a program cosponsored by NYU Law School's JLSA and Law Students for Economic Justice (LSEJ). The Jewish Labor Committee is working on expanding this program to other law schools across the United States.
From a graphic by Brittney Willis