Legal Info Svcs & Electronic Publishing Summer Internship, Practising Law Institute (Manhattan)

Legal Information Services and Electronic Publishing Summer Internship at the Practising Law Institute

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Overview

Practising Law Institute (“PLI”), an innovative leader in legal education programs and services, is searching for a small team of enthusiastic interns to join PLI for an 8-week internship program this summer. PLI’s client base includes a large array of prestigious law firms, corporations and government agencies. 

This is an exciting opportunity for students to gain professional business experience in their field of interest in a supportive learning environment.

INTERNSHIP PROGRAM SUMMARY

The internship program will begin on June 3^rd and end on July 26^th in our midtown Manhattan office. This is a paid internship at the rate of $16 per hour. A typical work schedule will be 9:00 am to 5:00 pm (including an unpaid one hour lunch break), Monday through Thursday, and 9:00 am to 3:00 pm on Friday.  PLI closes early on Friday during the summer months. 

Our internship program will offer students the opportunity to learn, perform tasks and take part in projects that relate to their academic majors.   

Below is a brief description of the departments seeking interns and corresponding internship assignment:

• Accounting

The Accounting department maintains financial books and records.

Internship Assignment:

Responsibilities include revenue recognition processing in NetSuite, preparing and entering journal entries, account analysis, preparing vendor request forms, reconciliation and assisting with the creation of the Accounting procedures manual. Strong Excel skills are required. Accounting or Finance students preferred.

• Business Analytics

The Business Analytics function supports the Executive Leadership team by reviewing data, assessing workflows across departments, recommending process improvements and business strategies based on analysis.

Internship Assignment:

Responsibilities include market research, data analysis projects for business cases, and financial analysis. This intern will be working with PLI data in Excel to categorize information and formulate templates and outputs that will help inform business decisions. Note: This position has a part-time schedule of approximately 19-25 hours per week.

• Information Technology (Two Opportunities)

The IT department evaluates, recommends and implements technologies as well as performs maintenance and upgrades/updates on software operating systems and databases in the PLI offices.

Internship Assignment for Digital Products:

Responsibilities include assisting with user stories and research, light design tasks using Sketch, use of google analytics for analyzing current site performance, data entry, project management tool support, supporting research that will support buildout of an Android App, collaborating with and providing support to the IT team. General interest in product development and product design is required.

Internship Assignment for Product Management:

Responsibilities include collaborating and providing support to our analysts, engineers and designers on projects as needed, helping with data mapping and validation, verifying application functionality and usability, monitoring analytics and participating in development projects in an Agile environment. Students studying Information Systems/Technology or Computer Science preferred.

• Legal Information Services and Electronic Publishing

The Legal Information Services and Electronic Publishing is responsible for the strategy, creation, and ongoing development of PLI PLUS, our online research platform. This department also supports customers with training and sells publishing products to law school and manage their accounts.

Internship Assignment:

Responsibilities include locating eBook files and/or generating them via an automated generation process, evaluating files for completeness, performing basic XML cleanup, managing eBook components using PLI’s content management systems, deploying eBooks to our online research database, and support other projects as needed. This position requires exposure to XML, HTML languages or similar. MLIS or MLS student strongly preferred.

• Membership Services

The Membership Services department is responsible for acquiring, retaining, renewing, and growing PLI’s Enterprise Revenue. This department, along with multiple support groups, supports enterprise customer accounts.

Internship Assignment:

Responsibilities include assisting with daily Salesforce data uploads; auditing activity by all Salesforce users, ensuring data is maintained and special projects as assigned. The ideal candidate for this position has previous experience working with large data sets. Strong excel skills are required. Previous experience using Salesforce and SQL is strongly preferred.

• Publishing

The Publishing department is responsible for publishing three types of products: Treatises, Answer Books and Course Handbooks.

Internship Assignment:

Responsibilities include cite checking, proofreading, editing and research. Second year law school student preferred.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Qualified interns fall under one of the following categories:
  • Rising senior college undergraduate
  • 2019 college graduate from an accredited undergraduate program
  • Current law school student
  • 2019 or recent law school graduate
• Must be available to participate in the program the full 8 weeks, beginning June 3^rd and ending July 26^th.
• Must have the ability to work Monday – Thursday from 9 or 9:30 am – 5 or 5:30 pm plus shorter day on Friday. Some intern assignments may have varying schedules.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite. Some intern assignments will require familiarity with department-specific software.
• Some intern assignments will require current attendance at law school, completion of law school, or graduate studies in a particular field.
• Must have the ability to provide recommendation letters from school and/or previous employer.
• Will be required to provide documentation of academic record displaying a GPA of 3.2 or higher.

Qualified internship applicants may submit resume and cover letter online. Only candidates who provide a cover letter which includes identifying a department(s) of interest will be considered.

 

ABOUT PLI

For 85 years PLI has been considered the “gold standard” as a leader in continuing legal and professional business training education.  PLI presents over 400 live programs each year in state-of-the-art conference centers throughout the U.S. and abroad.  Recent international seminar locations include London and Hong Kong. 

In addition to hosting innovative live programs, PLI streams webcasts and offers on demand programs for thousands of participants each day.  PLI publishes a variety of treatises, answer books, course handbooks and has an award-winning online research platform, PLI Plus. PLI offers the nation’s leading preparation course for the Patent Office’s Registration Exam, and provides SEC compliance and accounting training through its SEC Institute.  The organization also develops unique, engaging ways of learning through its Interactive Learning Center.

Through its mission as a nonprofit organization, PLI is deeply committed to the pro bono community and public interest organizations.

Due to the volume of applications we will not be able to respond to all candidates who apply.

Practising Law Institute is an equal opportunity employer.  More information about PLI may be found on our website www.pli.edu.  Thank you for your interest in working at PLI.

EEO Statement

PLI is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any candidate based on age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, creed, national origin, marital status, disability, citizenship or veteran status.