My job with NYSBA at first consisted of creating a law school resources to be added to the official NYSBA Web site (which you are on right now if you are reading my blog). I only worked at NYSBA on Fridays, so I could work at the firm the majority of my week. This allowed me to make enough money to have fun on the weekends, but still gain the experience of working at firm that I needed.
I had never worked on a Web site before. However, the program they used to create www.nysba.org was relatively easy to use. The reason I was asked to help was that they needed the perspective of a law student in creating this site. I was able to bring the questions I had throughout the process of deciding to go to law school on to how to study for final exams and incorporate them into the types of resources I thought would be helpful to have.
I gathered different resources off the web from different law school pages, government sites, and private sites that offered relevant information. The final result being the Law Student Resource Center at www.nysba.org/studentcenter.
After the basis of the site was created, I was then asked to create this blog. Having never blogged before, I thought this would be a great opportunity for me to try it out and even something I could brag about in an interview. So far, working with NYSBA has been a great opportunity with even more possible benefits.