Legal Internship / Externship / Summer Associate

We choose the most talented applicants. When interviewing candidates for these positions, we look to see whether they have the potential to be great at our firm. Once we hire someone, the training, mentoring and teaching never stops. We strive for greatness in everything we do and expect our interns to do the same. We encourage you to express your opinions and share your ideas to improve our work.

The Best Externship/Internship Program in the Country

No law firm in New York has produced a better internship and externship program in the country, and this is proven by the number of attorneys who started as interns and then summer associates and many years later are the leading attorneys in their profession. Many of these attorneys have received the highest law firm awards, including Best Law Firm by Best Lawyers, Leading Real Estate Lawyer for Chambers USA, nine Super Lawyers and Rising Stars by Super Lawyers, Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and highest possible ranking in both Legal Ability & Ethical Standards by Martindale-Hubbell. For our size, we have more externs that became full time attorneys and then Super Lawyers than any other firm in the country.

The Numbers

• Over 80 percent of our externs either received full time employment with our firm or we assisted in placing with the judiciary or finding other employment with another law firm.
• In the past five years, Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. has hired nine law school interns full-time after graduation.
• More than half our attorneys, including several partners, are under the age of 40.
• We have more externs that become full-time attorneys and then Super Lawyers than any other firm in the country

The Training

Our interns become lawyers in training and are part of the legal team and learn on the case or deal. Being assigned to active cases and made part of the team has given externs and interns the ability to produce amazing results. Only the very best law school students will make it at Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. as we are considered among the best, if not the best, real estate law firm in New York City. Because Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. practices only one type of law, all of our associates rapidly become experts. Our externs never make coffee or copies. We have exciting cases that require hard work and sweat as well as the smartest most aggressive, passionate, loyal and committed students who are ready to change the world one real estate case at a time. Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. has some of the most challenging and most high profile cases in the nation where staff expertise really does make a difference for the client, the community and, sometimes, the nation.

Interns will participate in a wide range of tasks that may include conducting case investigation, legal research, and discovery; meeting with clients and experts; and preparing memoranda, briefs, and other legal documents for administrative, judicial and transactional proceedings.

Why the Best Law School Graduates Choose Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Over Larger Law Firms

1. During the financial crisis, instead of layoffs, we increased by 20 percent the number of attorneys we have on staff.
2. The opportunity to make more money: all attorneys starting as first year associates participate in our firm-wide revenue sharing where each attorney receives a third of their billing that the firm collects.
3. 100 percent of attorneys with the firm since our first hiring class made partner during or before their 8th year at the firm. All of these partners are women, one of whom, while pregnant, made partner, and very shortly thereafter went on maternity leave.
4. We consistently win Best Place to Work awards because of our benefits focusing on improving employees’ talents and personal lives. We understand the importance of nutrition (our offices are always stocked with healthy fruits and foods) and the importance of exercise (we pay for 80 percent of gym memberships). We teach how to dress for success by educating on persuasive clothes and buying new attorneys their first suit.
5. Turnover is almost nonexistent and when we do lose an employee in some cases it is to go in house at one of our clients.
6. A notable magazine has reported that our attorneys and staff have the highest level of job satisfaction.
7. Our revenue has grown each year, even during the downturns, with an average growth of 22% per year since 2006. Although we cannot predict the future, our reserve fund structure should assist us in handling any rainy days in the future.

Externs and Summer Associates Have the Opportunity to be Published at Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C.

During their time at the firm, summer associates and law school externs learned the practice of law and became valuable team members who worked on active litigation and transactional matters. As part of this experience, each law student participates in writing an article for publication in one of the many places that Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. publishes.  This provides a phenomenal educational experience to teach the art of research and persuasive writing from some of the Bar’s leading attorneys.  Some law students have been co-authors in articles for the American Bar Association, State Bar Association and other publications. Other law students have been credited in places such as Chambers and Partners for research on topics that have never been covered before. Below are articles that our current attorneys assisted on during the externships at Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C.

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  Using the Judicial System to Abate the Foreclosure Crisis
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  Using the Judicial System to Abate the Foreclosure Crisis

  Probate & Property

  By Adam Leitman Bailey and Rachel Sigmund Adam Leitman Bailey is the principal of Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. in New York, New York. Rachel Sigmund is a third-year law student at the Rutgers University School of Law-Newark. Many stagnant foreclosures in the United States have been stuck in the judicial process for more than two years. This article describes how several states have addressed one of the primary legal impediments clogging the pipelines of pending or future foreclosures: lenders’ inability...

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  Preparing Practitioners for the Next Disasters
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  Preparing Practitioners for the Next Disasters

  American Bar

  By Adam Leitman Bailey, Dov Treiman, John Desiderio and William Pekarsky  Introduction In the United States of America, the number of natural disasters has gradually increased. Most of the costliest disasters have resulted from hurricanes and terrorist attacks. Other major casualties have resulted from earthquakes, monsoons, tsunamis, and wildfires. The damage to business and property from these events substantially affects the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans who look to their attorneys to protect them from the collateral effects...

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  Rules on Partitioning Ownership Property Rights
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  Rules on Partitioning Ownership Property Rights

  New York Law Journal

  By Adam Leitman Bailey and John M. Desiderio Whether a property owned by two or more tenants-in-common can be partitioned “in kind,” i.e., by physically dividing the real estate or other property interest, or by subjecting it to a judicial sale, or even whether the property may be subject to partition at all, are issues that courts must decide when the property’s majority and minority owners are strongly divided on whether the property should be divided or sold. Although the law...

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  Split Between Departments Muddies Subrogation Doctrine
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  Split Between Departments Muddies Subrogation Doctrine

  New York Law Journal

  By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman In an era when this nation’s economic stability depends, in part, on stable and unfettered real estate transfers, equitable subrogation provides a solution to some of the cracks in the system. However, as evidenced by a split between two departments of the Appellate Division, these cracks need some additional caulking to make sure that the right lien obtains priority. During 2009, the Second and Third departments of the Appellate Division split regarding when...

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  Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Wins Eviction of Rent Controlled Tenant Claiming Puerto Rican Sojourn for Dental Treatment
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  Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Wins Eviction of Rent Controlled Tenant Claiming Puerto Rican Sojourn for Dental Treatment

  If a tenant subject to the Rent Control Law does not maintain the subject premises as a primary residence, the landlord may sue for possession of the premises. However, the landlord must establish that the tenant does not maintain an ongoing, substantial, physical nexus with the subject premises for actual living purposes. The team at Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. commenced a holdover proceeding to recover possession of the premises from the tenant. Through investigations and vigorously analyzing the tenant’s testimony,...

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  The “Irreparable Harm” Conundrum in Obtaining a Preliminary Injunction
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  The “Irreparable Harm” Conundrum in Obtaining a Preliminary Injunction

  New York Law Journal

  By Adam Leitmam Bailey and John M. Desiderio Situations arise every day requiring attorneys to commence an action seeking court intervention to obtain immediate provisional relief, “respecting the subject of the action,” to protect a client against actions, in violation of the client’s rights, by a person, who is either threatening,  about to do, doing, or procuring or suffering to be done, actions, violating those rights, or which, if unrestrained would produce injury to the client during the pendency of...

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  State Legislators, Insurers and Courts to Homeowner Associations: We Will Not Insure Intentional Torts
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  State Legislators, Insurers and Courts to Homeowner Associations: We Will Not Insure Intentional Torts

  Probate & Property

  By Adam Leitman Bailey and Adam Blander Adam Leitman Bailey is the principal of Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., in New York, New York. Adam Blander was a legal intern at Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., and is now a law clerk for New York Supreme Court Judge Barbara Jaffe. This article discusses the personal liability that the volunteer members of homeowner association boards face for conduct that is deemed intentional and, therefore, uninsurable under many insurance policies and state laws. The...

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