Law Office Volunteer Winter Break Internships in
Edison, NJ
LAW OFFICE
VOLUNTEER WINTER BREAK INTERNSHIPS IN EDISON, N.J.
The Law Office of Kenneth Vercammen established a special Winter break
legal internship program for college students and Law Students. Volunteer
students will
have the opportunity to work in a busy law office and work with real clients.
Students interested in a career in law can obtain knowledge and experience in
law office procedures, preparing legal correspondence, and assisting clients. For the Winter/ Christmas program selected interns
must work 30 hours per week for 3 weeks minimum.
Interested students must mail or fax a
cover letter indicating the internship they are applying for and resume. If no
personal cover letter by student, the resume will not be considered. Emails not accepted. After sending the resume and
cover letter, call the office.
Details on internships
at http://www.njlaws.com/intern.html
LAW OFFICE WINTER/
CHRISTMAS BREAK- VOLUNTEER INTERNSHIPS
EDISON, N.J.
Volunteer students will have the opportunity
to work in a busy law office and work with real clients. Students interested in
a career in law can obtain knowledge and experience in law office procedures,
preparing legal correspondence, and assisting clients.
1. WORK ON LITIGATION MATTERS
-ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION AND WITNESS
CONTACTS
- EVIDENCE REVIEW
-CONTACT DEFENSE ATTORNEYS TO REQUEST
DISCOVERY
2. WORK ON CRIMINAL,
MUNICIPAL COURT AND PUBLIC DEFENDER CASES
- CONTACT MUNICIPAL PROSECUTOR TO OBTAIN DISCOVERY
-CONTACTS WITH COURT AND COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE
-PREPARE DISCOVERY DEMANDS
-EVIDENCE REVIEW AND ORGANIZATION
-PREPARATION FOR TRIAL AND ATTEND HEARINGS
-watch Interviews with Clients facing charges in Municipal Court
including Drug Possession, Drunk Driving, Assault, Driving While Suspended and
other criminal and traffic offenses
-Make demands for Discovery on Prosecutor and review police reports
-Attend hearings and learn from experienced trial attorneys
-Prepare Motions to Suppress Evidence and Motions to Compel Discovery
-Conduct appropriate Legal research
-Acquire skills in Criminal Law and Procedure by active participation
-Participate in Public Relations activities and help organize seminars
- Update Lists of Prosecutors, Judges and Attorneys for publication of
NJ Municipal Court Law Review
- Revise criminal and traffic law Articles and submit to Law Journals
and criminal law websites and blogs.
3. WILLS & PROBATE PRACTICE
- ACT AS FORMAL WITNESS TO WILLS, POWER OF
ATTORNEY AND OTHER LEGAL DOCUMENTS
-PUBLICIZE WILL SEMINARS AND ATTEND
PROGRAMS FREE OF CHARGE
4 -WORK ON COMMUNITY RELATIONS AND MARKETING
including submitting articles to legal websites and search engines
This is an excellent opportunity to
gain valuable experience as a volunteer intern and learn New Jersey Practice
and Procedure. Build your resume and obtain marketable skills. Longer hours or weeks permitted. On Wednesday
night and Friday morning, we work on Public Defender cases. Volunteer to help
indigent people charged with criminal and motor vehicle offenses of magnitude.
In additional to time in court, you will be given research assignments. You can
work more hours if you want. Help people
less fortunate than you who are down on their luck.
You will handle a client's file and learn
details on running a successful law practice. This will not be a brief writing
and photocopying clerkship. For additional information on the Law Office,
please visit the website at www.njlaws.com
Mail or fax cover letter and resume.
Do not email.
You
will help handle a client's file and learn details on running a successful law
practice. We sponsor a statewide website
with information on litigation, personal injury, criminal and probate matters.
It is helpful if applicants have some familiarity with HTML programming, web
page design and maintenance and Internet technology. If you can update a
website, please indicate so in the first paragraph of your cover letter. This
office is committed to excellence and service to clients and the community.
Applicants must have attention to detail. Included in activities is to help
translate webpages and add to web logs.
Students
interested in a career in law obtain experience in law office procedures,
preparing legal correspondence, and assisting clients.
Very truly yours,
KENNETH
VERCAMMEN, Managing Attorney
Interested
students must Mail or fax cover letter and resume. Do not email.
Kenneth Vercammen & Associates, PC
2053 Woodbridge Avenue, Edison, NJ 08817
PHONE
732-572-0500 (Fax) 732-572-0030
[1.6 miles from Edison Train station]
About Mentor Program Director: Kenneth Vercammen is an Edison,
Middlesex County, NJ trial attorney.
Mr. Vercammen has published 125 articles in national and New Jersey
publications on criminal, traffic, DWI, probate, estate planning, and
litigation topics. He wrote the American Bar Association’s book Criminal Law
Forms” He often lectures to trial lawyers of the American Bar Association,
New Jersey State Bar Association and Middlesex County Bar Association.
Kenneth Vercammen was the NJ State Bar
Municipal Court Attorney of the =and past president of the Middlesex County
Municipal Prosecutor's Association. He is the past chair of the NJ State Bar
Association Municipal Court Section and is the Co-Chair of the ABA Criminal Law
committee, GP Division.
He is a
highly regarded lecturer on litigation issues for the American Bar Association,
ICLE, New Jersey State Bar Association and Middlesex County Bar Association.
His articles have been published by New Jersey Law Journal, ABA Law Practice
Management Magazine, and New Jersey Lawyer. As the Editor in Chief of the New
Jersey Municipal Court Law Review. Mr. Vercammen is also a recipient of the
NJSBA- YLD Service to the Bar Award.
In his private practice, he has devoted a
substantial portion of his professional time to the preparation for trial of
litigated matters. He has appeared in
Courts throughout New Jersey several times each week on Criminal personal
injury matters, Municipal Court trials, and contested Probate hearings. He serves as the Editor of the popular legal
websites www.njlaws.com and www.BeNotGuilty.com
He has served as a Special Acting Prosecutor in nine
different cities and towns in New Jersey and also successfully handled over One
thousand Municipal Court and Superior Court matters in the past 25 years.
Kenneth Vercammen was included in the 2015 “Super Lawyers” list published by
Thomson Reuters. He was a member of the Law Review and top 10% law school grad.