Samuel M. Kaynard Memorial Student Service Awards
PURPOSE: To enable New York State Law Schools to recognize excellence among their law students in the area of labor and employment law, and to cultivate the relationship between the Labor and Employment Law Section and future labor and employment practitioners.
ELIGIBILITY: All law school students. Student(s) must be nominated by the dean or the dean’s designee. Direct student applications will not be considered.
PRIZES
First prize: $3,000
Second Prize: $2,000
Third Prize: $1,000
GUIDELINES
The Award is intended to encourage scholarship and exemplary service in the field of Labor and Employment Law. The Award is made by the law school to the student(s) in recognition of an extraordinary accomplishment in the field, including but not limited to the following:
(1) Organizing and/or conducting programs at any educational level conducive to the propagation of labor and employment knowledge and skills;
(2) Outstanding performance in a labor or employment course, clinical experience, project, internship or related activity such as: a collective bargaining simulation, grant proposal to research labor and employment issues, curricular revision, or other exposition on the subject;*
(3) Facilitating conflict resolution or peer mediation programs for elementary or secondary school students;
(4) Utilizing the internet and its components (e.g. World Wide Web/e-mail) to disseminate or receive labor and employment information; or
(5) A substantial action or activity in furtherance of labor and employment law, performed or instituted in the year of this competition
A written essay or article is excluded from this award category since the Labor and Employment Section’s Dr. Emanuel Stein Memorial Writing Competition accommodates these submissions.
**DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO 10/28/19**
Stein Memorial Writing Law Student Writing Competition
Purpose: To recognize excellence among law school students writing in the area of labor and employment law; and to cultivate the relationship between the Section and future labor and employment practitioners.
Contact: Cathy Teeter
Nomination Deadline: October 1st of each year.
Date Presented: January Annual Meeting
Award Criteria: Articles must be original from the applicant. Submissions should focus on any timely, compelling aspect of labor and employment law. Only one submission per student.
All articles are to be submitted in the following format:
a) typewritten – with computer disk attached or submitted by email to bgould@nysba.org;
b) double spaced;
c) on 8-1/2 inch by 11 inch paper, 1 inch margins;
d) no longer than 20 pages (exclusive of endnotes); e) citations are to conform to “A Uniform System of Citation” (The Bluebook).
If published by the Section, all articles submitted for the competition become the property of the Labor and Employment Law Section and the New York State Bar Association. No article submitted may be published in any journal or periodical other than the “New York State Bar Journal”, or the “Labor and Employment Law Section Newsletter”, until after announcement of the winner of this competition in January.
Students should include a cover letter with the entry stating your name, mailing address and phone number (both school and permanent), social security number, name of your school and year of graduation. Do not include your name or personal information on your paper.
Prize Awarded:
1st place: $3,000 and publication in Section newsletter.
2nd place: $2,000.
3rd place: $1,000.
More Information: https://www.nysba.org/Sections/Labor_and_Employment/Awards/2019SteinAwardBrochure.html
**DEADLINE TO SUBMIT EXTENDED TO 10/28/19**